Caslon Projects

I’m pleased to have had five of my photographs (including Long Island City, Queens #3, above) selected for F-Stop Magazine’s group exhibit “Excerpts from Portfolios“. Contributors include 42 photographers from across the globe. Check it out. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

Yoko Ono talks about the 40th anniversary of the Montreal bed-in.

Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.

These photos are from a government owned property near the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Neglected for some time, boarded up, fenced off and overgrown, the property is now home to a handful of (camera shy) feral cats.

The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House. In a sharp departure from the 19th-century still lifes, pastorals and portraits that dominate the White [...]

Magic Hour

Abandoned house in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

These photos date from 5/4/2009 (the other from that evening was posted on May 4th). I finally found some time to work with these files and put them up here.

Today: Walking Through Ridgewood & Forest Park, Queens

I took the N train to the end of the line this morning.  Above is a selection of the photographs I took in the area. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

In the drizzly droozle drip droppy LES, last night, I took this photograph. At various times in NYC, it doesn’t take much inclemency of the weather to get people scattered. Add a late night, and presto, you’ve got a place that seems right around the corner from Dylan’s desolation row. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options [...]

Greetings, dear visitors! To begin what should become a regularly updated blog with postings relevant to photography, art and other bites of tastiness, I thought I’d explain a little about the name ‘Caslon’. The name comes from the eponymous, 18th Century typeface by William Caslon. The font, with its calligraphic tails and serifs, is anchored [...]