“Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.”
~ Le Corbusier
Misty night surrounding the Statue of Liberty - 1942
(Photo by Andreas Feininger)
Image courtesy of Time-Life Pictures/Getty Images: http://www.life.com/
Statue of Liberty
Image courtesy of: http://walkinnewyork.blogspot.com/
Statue of Liberty
(Photo by Margaret Bourke-White)
Image courtesy of: http://redheadedwisdom.blogspot.com/
Statue of Liberty
(Saboteur - 1942)
Image courtesy of: http://thisdistractedglobe.com/
Statue of Liberty
Image courtesy of: http://alexflorschutzart.co.uk/
Statue of Liberty - 2009
(By Henri Silberman)
Image courtesy of: http://henrisilberman.com/
Manhattan Bridge
Central Park
Image courtesy of: http://www.starstore.com/
Central Park - 2004
Central Park
Grand Central Station
Central Park
Central Park
(Photo by M. A. Andrew)
Above left, Lamppost in Central Park | Above right, Lamppost and trees at dusk in Central Park
(The two photos above are by James Maher)
Images above are courtesy of: http://www.jamesmaherphotography.com/
Bow Bride at Night
(Photo by James Maher)
Manhattan - 1941
Brooklyn Bridge - 1903
Manhattan - 1933
Times Square - 1943
Grand Central Station - 1913
Flat Iron Building under construction - 1902
River House, 52nd Street & East River
Above left, Manhattan - 1932 | Above right, Rockefeller Centre - 1933
Above left, Winter Palace - 1933 | Above right, Manhattan - 1933
Above left, The Woolworth Building - 1913 | Above right, a view from Central Park - 1933
Above left & right, Fulton Market Pier - 1933
Manhattan Bridge - 1909
Hell Gate Bridge - 1915
The above seventeen photos are courtesy of: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/
The RCA Building
Chrysler Building, 1931
(Photo by Margaret Bourke-White)
Image courtesy of Time-Life: http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/
Above left, Chrysler Reflections | Above right, Empire State Building
Brooklyn Bridge
The above three images are courtesy of: http://www.londoneditions.com/
Chrysler Building, Study 2 - 2006
Empire State Building, Study 4 - 2007
(The two photos above are by Michael Kenna)
Image courtesy of: http://saintsulpice.unblog.fr/
Broadway & West 34th Street
Image courtesy of: http://livingthetxdream.blogspot.com/
Chrysler Building at night
Chrysler Building
Image courtesy of: http://www.skyscraperimages.com/
Chrysler Tower Gargoyle - 1930
(Photo by Margaret Bourke-White)
Image courtesy of: http://lossenalataiel.livejournal.com/
Manhattan Skyline - 1946
(Photo by Fred Stein)
(Photo by Fred Stein)
South Street & Jones Lane - 1936
(Photo by Berenice Abbott, New York Public Library)
(Photo by Berenice Abbott - 1935)
Above left, Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas & The Rockefeller Center
Above right, "El" Second and Third Avenue Lines - Bowery & Division Street
Above right, "El" Second and Third Avenue Lines - Bowery & Division Street
Above left, Hell Gate Bridge, 1935 | Above right, Brooklyn Bridge, Water & Dock Streets - 1936
(The above four photos are by Berenice Abbott)
The Chrysler Building under construction - 1929
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Rockefeller Plaza - 2003
Image courtesy of: http://www.jamesmaherphotography.com/
Atlas, Rockefeller Center
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Atlas, Rockefeller Center
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Radio City Music Hall - 2008
(Photo by James W. Howe)
Image courtesy of: http://jameshowephotography.com/
Manhattan Bridge Walkway - 1936
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Alwyn Court
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Image courtesy of: http://tony-robins.blogspot.com/
Pike & Henry Streets, Lower East Side - 1936
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Image courtesy of: http://www.examiner.com/
Above left, Broadway to the Battery - 1938 | Above right, Flat Iron Building, Madison Square - 1938
Daily News Building - 1935
(The above three photos are by Berenice Abbott)
The above three images are all courtesy of: http://secondat.blogspot.com/
Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
The above three images are all courtesy of: http://the-cwtch.blogspot.com/
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
New York At Night
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Image courtesy of: http://www.artnet.com/
Image courtesy of: http://www.artnet.com/
Above left, Manhattan Bridge rises above Washington Street in New York - 1908
Above right, Manhattan Bridge, under-construction, seen from the roof of Robert Gair Building, showing suspenders & saddles - 1909
Meeker Avenue Bridge under construction, looking south, showing Brooklyn approach - 1939
The Queensboro Bridge under construction - 1907
Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, seen from a stable roof - 1918
Painters suspended on cables of the the Brooklyn Bridge - 1914
The Queensboro Bridge, showing reconstruction of tracks looking east - 1929
A view of the city from the Brooklyn Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge - 1933
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Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, West 81st Street, between Columbus Avenue & Central Park West - undated
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)
Image courtesy of: http://www.artnet.com/
Theoline, Pier 11, East River, New York
(Photo by Berenice Abbott)Image courtesy of: http://www.artnet.com/
Above right, Manhattan Bridge, under-construction, seen from the roof of Robert Gair Building, showing suspenders & saddles - 1909
Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, seen from a stable roof - 1918
The Queensboro Bridge, leading to Manhattan - 1912
An experimental exposure made on the Queensboro Bridge - 1910
A view of the city from the New York tower of George Washington Bridge, 168th Street & Hudson River - 1936
Ninth Avenue El trains (66th Street El station in the background) - 1933
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Interior view of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) subway powerhouse, 58th to 59th Street - ca. 1904
Original City Hall subway station, IRT Lexington Avenue Line - 1904
Sunlight floods in through windows of the vaulted main room of New York City's famed Grand Central Terminal - ca. 1935-1941
The "Well", US Signal Corps Army Base Terminal, Port of Embarkation - ca. 1945-1946
6th Avenue & 40th Street - 1940
Times Square theatres by day: The Times Building, Loew's Theatre, Hotel Astor, Gaiety Theatre - 1938
The S.S. Normandie, seen from a Staten Island ship - ca. 1935-1941
Above left, 42nd Street, looking west from 2nd Avenue - ca. 1935-1941 | Above right, Midtown Manhattan at night - ca. 1935-1941
The above twenty-two images are all courtesy of: The Atlantic
Video is courtesy of: corpsesflowersgrow - youtube.com
Suggested readings:
Manhattan (1999), by Gil Reavill, Jean Zimmerman & Michael S. Yamashita: Compass American Guides
Margaret Bourke-White: Daring Photographer (2002), by Sara McIntosh Wooten: Enslow Publishers
New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York (2005), by Berenice Abbott, Douglas Levere & Bonnie Yochelson: Princeton Architectural Press
Manhattan Skyscrapers (2005), by Eric P. Nash & Norman McGrath: Princeton Architectural Press
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: An Independent Vision (2006), by George Sullivan: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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