Photo By Gail
For Movie Marquee II (Afternoon) from 1972, Yvonne Jacquette (1934 – 2023) looks up. The canopy of the East Village’s now- demolished Irving Place Theater overhangs the skyward view, while the Consolidated Edison building rises beyond. The startling perspective refreshes the standard cityscape by finding release from the density of Manhattan. The radical vantage point, extreme cropping, asymmetry, and flat planes of color draw inspiration from Japanese wood block print design.
Photographed in the New York Historical Society in Manhattan.
Hey what’s up. You might have noticed that the blog has been a little light on posts since Monday night. This is owing to the fact that Hurricane Sandy came knocking, literally, on my front door. The buildings where I live on East 14th Street were hit very hard, with flooding in all basements. Not to mention, but you can see I am about to, the fact that we are located just half a block from the Con Ed transformer that exploded so spectacularly shortly before lower Manhattan was blanketed in darkness for days that, as of this writing, still have not seen a return of electricity to our homes.
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