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Dancing At The Urban Edge: Coney Island Weekend Afternoons
Weekend afternoon dance party, Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn, New York, 2012. (Fuji X100 w/ 28mm-equivalent lens adapter). Click to enlarge. I haven’t gotten out to Coney Island this summer. So,...
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Faces At The Urban Edge: Ginger and Fred, Bewigged Ticket Taker and Solitary...
Ticket taker, dance event, Coney Island, 2012. (Fuji X100). Click to enlarge. Two Coney Island boardwalk dance event denizens. In the absence of my Rolleiflex, the photos were composed and later edited...
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Elegance At The Urban Edge: A Saturday Afternoon Dance Partner
Boardwalk Dance Partner, Coney Island, 2012. (Fuji X100 w/ 28-mm adaptor) Click to enlarge. Don’t just note the dancer! Also note the wood plank surface of the boardwalk, it will form part of the...
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Sabbath At The Urban Edge: Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Volley Ball, the Sea and the...
A Brighton Beach sabbath afternoon. Ultra-orthodox Jews gazing (longingly?) at a volley ball game and the sand, sea, and horizon; Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, 2012. (Fuji X100). Click to...
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Mermaid At The Urban Edge: Coney Island, Mermaid Day Parade
One Mermaid from amongst thousands, Mermaid Day Parade, 2011 (Fuji X100) Click to enlarge. To mark the resumption of Bubkes.Org:after a six-week hiatus: a snapshot of a mermaid emerged from sea to...
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Surfaces At The Urban Edge, Coney Island-Brighton Beach: “Let Them Walk On...
An infrastructural question: Will seaside boardwalks survive the 21st century? A look at the New York region suggests that they might not. The resurgence of nature over urban artifice during last...
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Brooklyn, Late Spring: Blossoms in the Midst of a Cold Spell
I’ve neglected this site since early February. Obligations and commitments in Istanbul and the Balkans — including an enjoyable half-day tour and presentation on the historical and present-day...
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Eye-to-Eye, Part Two: Two photos, two x two decades, two fast ways to focus,...
Local residents, fishing village, Sunda Strait, Western Java, mid-1970s, 35mm b/w neg, scan of print. Click to enlarge. Further to my recent post on eye contact in photography, two photos taken two...
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Feet Unfettered, Ears Unfilled: A Siren’s Song from the Coney Island Surf
On his epic voyage homeward from Troy to Ithaca, Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey, had his crew bind him to the mast of his ship to keep him from being lured away by the enchanting sound of the...
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Pauses: Online, in New York, in Prospect Park, and Photographically
I haven’t posted to this site since early summer. Since then, I’ve paused in New York and immersed myself into the concerns and demands of mundane daily life in the city of my birth. A friend refers...
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