Saturday, September 25, 2010

City of dreams, laundry



The Wall Street Journal has an item today on the new book "New York: Portrait of a City" (Taschen, 560 pages, $69.99). Per the WSJ:

"Erika Stone's 1947 photograph of a Lower East Side tenement's brick-wall exterior seems to capture New York at two extremes: city of dreams (as rendered by an outdoor advertiser, anyway) and city of laundry."


[Erika Stone/Katrina Doerner Photographs, Brooklyn]

3 comments:

Mykola ( Mick) Dementiuk said...

I remember my mother hanging up clothes in a narrow space between buildings. And though we lived on the 4th floor the buildings around us went to the 6th. Still over the years the clothes did dry. Does anyone dry clothes outside their windows? Doubt it...

Anonymous said...

We dry some of our clothes outside...but I'm not saying where so we don't get evicted!

glamma said...

why would you get evicted for that? is it illegal?