Weegee’s Guide to New York: Weegee was here…

Larry Racioppo will be speaking about his Good Friday photographs at the Brooklyn Public Library on March 25, 2015

http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/jesus-brooklyn-four-good-central-library-brooklyn-032515

www.larryracioppo.com

 Story about the shoot as told by Jean Bubley

Esther photographed Einstein for Life Magazine on his 74^th birthday. He normally didn’t like photographers, but he had agreed to a photo shoot because there was a big celebration in honor of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He thought he had agreed to a one hour photo session. She thought she had the whole day. After an hour he started to leave, but he noticed that Esther looked disappointed. He asked why and she explained. Since she had been so unobtrusive, he let her follow him around for the rest of the day.

She photographed him at home, and at his office at Princeton, and on the walk home. One of the photos shows him walking along the road in the same direction as the auto traffic. The Life editors chastised her for photographing Einstein walking on the wrong side of the road. But she replied, “Who was I to tell Einstein where to walk?” They used that photo as the lead-in for the story.

http://discovermagazine.com/special-reports/Einstein

www.estherbubley.com

Mary Delaney Cooke

http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-Hampton-Village/95812/A-Love-Story-Jerry-Cooke-And-Mary-Delaney 

For more information about Jerry Cooke go to www.jerrycookearchives.com

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2015/03/watch-this-yiddish-love-story-dixon-place-sunday/

The work of Chester Higgins, Jr. was featured in a segment on NY1 on Sunday evening, March 8. Higgins was a staff photographer at the New York Times for nearly 50 years, from 1975 until his retirement from the paper in late 2014. APAG linked to the Times commemoration of Higgins’ oeuvre of work on their popular Lens Blog; read his beautiful good-bye to the paper and see a selection of his photographs here.

Judy Schiller’s (FotoQueen) film, “It Happened in Havana: A Yiddish Love Story,” will screen at Dixon Place on Sunday, March 15 at 4PM. “In her cinematic debut, filmmaker Judy Schiller takes the viewer on two journeys: her mother’s, from Poland to Cuba, where she and her family were the only Jews in their town; and her father’s beginning on New York’s Lower East Side, where the street was the playground.”

Tickets are available now, both online and at the door.

Photo District News published an article on the planning, organizing, appraising, and digitizing that goes into the formation a photo archive. Mary Engel is quoted on p. 33 about the Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive. Read the scanned article below or on PDN’s website. The article is featured in the April 2015 issue.

http://www.haroldfeinstein.com/grateful-heart-valentines-day-2015/

Award-winning, New York-based photographer Linda Troeller collaborated with writer and ethnographer Marion Schneider to produce “Orgasm: Photographs & Interviews,” continuing “the investigation into female sexuality” started by Troeller and Schneider with their 1998 publication, The Erotic Lives of Women. The book involved the participation of 25 women from all types of backgrounds sharing intimate and candid stories about their own sexual experiences. Troeller will participate in an interview at Bluestockings on the Lower East Side (172 Allen St.) on Wednesday, February 11 at 7PM. More information about the event can be located on the Bluestockings Events page, and for more details about the book and the story behind its creation, please visit the book’s site.