Manhattan 1609-2010.
Photographer Thierry Cohen makes portraits of the night sky free from manmade light and matches them with contemporary city skylines to remind us of what we’re missing.
This is what the Lenape who greeted Hudson fell asleep to.
Slideshows are available at NYT, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Danziger Gallery in Manhattan, which is showing them until May 4.
![America, 2012.
[House and doll, Firebaugh, California, 2009; photograph by Ken Light from Valley of Shadows and Dreams (Heyday, 2012), originally featured in the New York Review of Books. Here’s the project’s website.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maax7068d61r148oqo1_1280.jpg)
America, 2012.
[House and doll, Firebaugh, California, 2009; photograph by Ken Light from Valley of Shadows and Dreams (Heyday, 2012), originally featured in the New York Review of Books. Here’s the project’s website.]
A great photo by Leonard Freed (Washington, D.C., 1963).
It was later published in his pioneering Black in White America (1968), which is described (& sold) by the Getty Museum here.
English prison-photography blogger Pete Brook offers some commentary about a recent show at the Getty that highlighted Freed’s work here.
(Source: mpdrolet, via underthechinaberrytree)
