#newyorkcity1980s

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City as Metaphor

Coney Island, 1982 and 2022

Images by Richard Koenig; for more of this project please go here.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #coneyisland #pratt #filmphotography #grainisgood

[tomdalyart]

West Side page 29. #westsidecomic #newyorkcity1980s #newyorkcity1980

#newyorkcity1980s #westsidecomic #newyorkcity1980

[railwayhistorical]

La Ronda Trio

Here’s a couple of images I made near the La Ronda Cocktail Lounge; it’s located at 2818 Broadway, which is at the corner of 109th Street. Evidently I was intrigued by, and caught up with, the three ladies walking downtown along Broadway, as this second image was adjacent to the first on the strip of negatives.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in the fall of 1981.

#newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #nyc1981 #broadway #upperwestside #manhattan #laronda #filmphotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

197 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #fortgreene #newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #clintonhill #filmphotography #analogphotography #c41 #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor

With this project I revisit locales in New York City (primarily Brooklyn), where I made photographs several decades ago. A contemporary, high-resolution image is then made, framed to mimic the prior photograph. The updated view is then combined with the vintage analog work to form a straightforward diptych à la Mark Klett’s wonderful Rephotographic Survey Project of the late seventies. The goal of this undertaking is to allow the viewer to study how visible things may have changed over a relatively long period of time—the most notable being, perhaps, an explosion of trees and foliage. But while the image-duos describe this and other changes based on physical appearances, it is hoped that a reflection of a deeper sort may be elicited. One may ponder what has transpired generally since the vintage views were made—the nature of the photography exhibited here is a receipt for a far-reaching digital revolution still unfolding. Beyond image and information technology, though, lurk other truly impactful events, some of which can be discerned from the images, while others cannot. The circumstance for having created the vintage images (while the author was studying photography at Pratt Institute in the early eighties) is arbitrary, but not insignificant. While not as dramatic as the shift in social, political, and cultural mores that occurred in the late sixties, the author, like many others, feels 1980 marks the beginning of a shift toward a new gilded age in the United States. Citing the oft-stated fable of frogs slowly being cooked alive, we tend not to notice incremental change, even when dangerous or possibly fatal in nature. It is hoped that the simple tactic of using time-comparison photographs will work to jar the viewer.

One can go here to see the entire project.

Richard Koenig

#newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #manhattan #manhattan1980s #thelake #thelake1980s #centralpark #filmphotography #grainisgood

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

The East River from Roosevelt Island, with the Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island Tram above.

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #nyc #nyc1980s #59thstreetbridge #queensborobridge #rooseveltisland #rooseveltislandtramway #eastriver #filmphotography #analogphotography #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#brooklyn #grandarmyplaza #brooklyn1980s #newyorkcity1980s #filmphotography #analogphotography #newyorkcity #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

245 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #clintonhill #dekalbavenue #filmphotography #analogphotography #c41 #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

Seven Train, Broadway/Roosevelt Avenue Station, Queens, with midtown Manhattan visible in the distance. Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #nyc #nyc1980s #queens #queens1980s #seventrain #7train #rooseveltavenue #filmphotography #analogphotography #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

Midtown, as seen from The Lake, Central Park

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #centralpark #thelake #manhattan #filmphotography #analogphotography #nyc #nyc1980s #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

511 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #newyorkcity1980s #myrtleavenue #clintonhill #filmphotography #analogphotography #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

The Changing Face of Brooklyn

Here are two views taken nearly forty years apart: downtown Brooklyn as seen from Grand Army Plaza, looking down Flatbush Avenue. The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower is prominent in the first view, but nearly completely obscured in the second—the top of tower just visible. The three trees survive, which is a good thing.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in 1981 and 2021.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #flatbushavenue #grandarmyplaza #williamsburghbank #newyorkcity1980s #1980s

[railwayhistorical]

City as Metaphor: A Re-Photography Project Spanning Forty Years

169 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn

Images by Richard Koenig, all rights reserved.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #filmphotography #analogphotography #c41 #rephotography

[railwayhistorical]

High Over the East River

Here are some shots taken from atop the Manhattan Bridge. The first image shows lower Manhattan, the second a partner in crime, and the third has midtown visible in the distance.

Three images by Richard Koenig; taken in the summer of 1984.

#manhattan #nyc #nyc1980s #1980s #newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #worldtradecenter #wtc #manhattanbridge #filmphotography #35mm #brooklynbrige #fdrdrive

[railwayhistorical]

Never Forget

Here was the view of The City from my dorm in Brooklyn. This shot was scanned from a 4" x 5" negative, but cropped quite a bit. One image by Richard Koenig; taken in the fall of 1981.

#wtc #worldtradecenter #neverforget #brooklyn1980s #nyc1980s #newyorkcity #newyorkcity1980s #myrtleavenue #southernmanhattan #manhattan #grainisgood #filmphotography #black&white

[railwayhistorical]

The Changing Face of Brooklyn

Two images taken nearly forty years apart: this is looking north along Washington Avenue at Lincoln Place.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in 1981 and 2021.

#brooklyn #brooklyn1980s #newyorkcity1980s #1980s #brooklynnewyork #washingtonavenue #lincolnplace