Evan Sklar

A Few From The Weekend

2012-01-16T08:02:00.000-05:00

Harold Feinstein

2011-10-11T14:00:00.000-04:00

A little piece I wrote about photographer Harold Feinstein on The New York Times Lens Blog.

Harold Feinstein, Coney Island, Blanket Toss Beach Play, 1955

Pretty Penny and Skinny Minny

2011-10-03T09:50:00.000-04:00

Blue Room

2011-09-12T09:04:00.000-04:00

What Irene Left Behind

2011-08-31T09:39:00.000-04:00

After Irene

2011-08-29T09:35:00.000-04:00

Shenandoah Valley Viewed From Traffic Jam

2011-07-21T10:14:00.001-04:00

I 81

2011-07-20T10:00:00.000-04:00

Somewhere, Virginia

2011-07-19T10:05:00.000-04:00

Forbidden Cave

2011-07-13T11:24:00.004-04:00

On the Vine

2011-07-12T10:24:00.000-04:00

The Age of Aquarium

2011-07-11T10:06:00.000-04:00

Havre de Grace

2011-07-08T10:33:00.000-04:00

Lobbies

2011-07-07T10:10:00.001-04:00

Aberdeen, Pool

2011-07-06T10:22:00.000-04:00

Aberdeen, Parking Lots

2011-07-05T10:12:00.000-04:00

Off the Grid

2011-06-27T13:34:00.003-04:00

Back in a week.

Google Maps, BK NY

Big Rig

2011-06-23T10:04:00.000-04:00

Bits and Baubles

2011-06-22T10:09:00.000-04:00

The Piano

2011-06-21T11:08:00.000-04:00

Weekend Visit to the Louis Armstrong House

2011-06-20T11:32:00.000-04:00

If you should find yourself in Corona, Queens, and you know you will, then you owe it to yourself to stop by the Louis Armstrong house for a tour. Armstrong lived here in this modest, nondescript Queens neighborhgood from 1943 until his death in 1971. The interior, which our tour group was strictly forbidden to make pictures of, is one of the best preserved time capsules of an original, super groovy, tricked out, 1960's pop star aesthetic that you will ever see! Elvis Presley's Graceland is a close second, but the Armstrong house, like the man himself, sings with an ebullient and joyful authenticity that has no match. Below are a few snaps of the interior that I was able to find on line.

Below are a few of my own pictures from around the house grounds.

Warnin

2011-06-14T11:08:00.000-04:00

Naked Mom

2011-06-13T10:36:00.000-04:00

This was just brought to me by my seven year old!

Cloverfield Factory

2011-06-10T14:34:00.003-04:00

Super Model Cheerios

2011-06-09T09:06:00.001-04:00

Plots and Lots

2011-06-08T09:47:00.000-04:00

Pink Lemon Aid, Parking Lot and Pool

2011-06-07T10:17:00.000-04:00

Blue Jersey

2011-06-06T10:42:00.000-04:00

Glove and Hat

2011-06-03T11:11:00.000-04:00

Windows, New Jersey

2011-06-02T10:49:00.000-04:00

Breakfast Club

2011-06-01T10:10:00.000-04:00

View From Sheraton, Somewhere, New Jersey

2011-05-31T10:40:00.000-04:00

All's Fair

2011-05-23T10:14:00.000-04:00

The New York Public Library has a great new iPad app called Biblion. The first edition presents the library’s 1939-1940 New York World’s fair collection of documents and includes a lot of terrific photographs. A few are below.

14 Ton Typewriter

Elmer, the Typical U.S Citizen, As American As Apple Pie

Baroness, Irmela von Koschembahr

Two Curious Children Examine Bombs

Electro, the Westinghouse Moto-Man

Electro, the Westinghouse Moto-Man and Dog

Cute Couple

2011-05-17T08:57:00.002-04:00

A Few From the Weekend

2011-05-16T10:12:00.000-04:00

EST. 1954

2011-05-10T09:40:00.000-04:00

Leaves of Grass

2011-05-09T09:03:00.000-04:00

Remember

2011-05-06T16:32:00.001-04:00

Sunday Afternoon Walkabout

2011-05-02T09:22:00.000-04:00

Stormy

2011-04-28T13:24:00.002-04:00

A Baker's Super Nova

2011-04-26T09:02:00.002-04:00

Orange Balloon

2011-04-25T09:44:00.001-04:00

... But Few Are Chosen 3

2011-04-19T11:58:00.000-04:00

Analogue

2011-04-18T10:42:00.001-04:00

Soda Pop

2011-04-11T10:58:00.000-04:00

Best of....

2011-04-07T09:42:00.000-04:00

Best Crocheted Bicycle

Best Cow In Brooklyn

iPad In Bed

2011-04-06T09:53:00.001-04:00

Now It's Spring

2011-04-04T10:53:00.000-04:00

It's not officially spring until I pay my first visit to the roving Mister Softee truck. Saturday was that day!

Play Ball!

2011-03-31T07:56:00.008-04:00

A new season begins today!

Anonymous, 1910

Walker Evans, Baseball, Straw Hat and Dice, 1929

Walker Evans, Giants Vs. Phillies, at the Polo Grounds, NY, 1952

Ablemare County

2011-03-25T09:29:00.000-04:00

Outside Charlottesville, Virginia

2011-03-24T09:00:00.000-04:00

I.C D.C, Day Three

2011-03-23T09:45:00.001-04:00

A.D.D In D.C

2011-03-22T09:21:00.001-04:00

There's really too much to see here. Trying to decide what to make pictures of is made more simple by the fact that you pretty much can't take any pictures indoors any where in this city! Bureau of engraving? No way! White house? Nope. National Archives? Hah! I managed to grab a few at the National Portrait Gallery. How could they say no to making a portrait?

I.C D.C

2011-03-21T09:41:00.001-04:00

I'm in Washington D.C for the week. Secret government work. There are a few messes that I've been called in to clean up. I can't really talk about it and I've probably already said more than I should have. Duty aside, I've had some available time to make some pictures.

Spring Eggs

2011-03-18T09:58:00.003-04:00

A Bit of the Green

2011-03-17T09:37:00.001-04:00

Edward Steichen, Green-Blue Flatiron, 1933

Walker Evans, Plastic Six-Pack Holder in Grass, 1973

Stephen Shore, Natural Bridge, NY 1974

William Eggleston, Memphis, 1971

William Eggleston, from The Hasselblad Award, 1998

A Few From the Weekend

2011-03-14T09:47:00.000-04:00

Pink Pickle Juice Light and Orchids

2011-03-09T09:37:00.001-05:00

Strand Stand

2011-03-02T09:55:00.003-05:00

Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915

I happened to be walking down a stretch of Wall Street, where I've walked at least a dozen times before, when it suddenly occurred to me that the building I was looking at was the same one from the well known Paul Strand picture. I tried to stand in what I thought was the same place and snapped a version with my phone.

Hot Monday

2011-02-28T11:26:00.000-05:00

Ansel Adams, Hot Monday Afternoon, San Francisco, California, 1935

...But Few Are Chosen

2011-02-24T09:42:00.000-05:00

Weirdo Beardo

2011-02-21T09:50:00.000-05:00

Jet Yellow

2011-02-18T10:24:00.000-05:00

Weighty

2011-02-16T10:20:00.000-05:00

Descend The Stairs With A Tranquil Demeanor

2011-02-15T10:42:00.002-05:00

A Few For Valentine's Day

2011-02-14T13:56:00.000-05:00

Robert Frank, Tulip, Paris 1950

Andre Kertesz, Lovers, Budapest

Andre Kertesz, untitled polaroid

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mexico, 1934

Yuck

2011-02-10T10:47:00.000-05:00

Aculed dna Nead

2011-02-09T10:30:00.000-05:00

PS, I Love You

2011-02-08T10:35:00.000-05:00

A few from a recent visit to public school 6

Chicken Soup

2011-02-07T10:28:00.005-05:00

Adolphe Braun, Ice details on the Rhone glacier, 1865

Awwww!

2011-01-31T09:37:00.000-05:00

Lartigue's Winter Pictures

2011-01-28T10:26:00.000-05:00

If any one can make winter seem happy it's Jacques Henri Lartigue!

The above images are by Jacques Henri Lartigue from the book Lartigue's WinterPictures

More Snow Again, Again, Again

2011-01-27T11:55:00.008-05:00

Apparently yesterday's snow was only a warm up for the night's big event.

More Snow Again, Again

2011-01-26T09:23:00.005-05:00

A Few From the Weekend

2011-01-25T09:55:00.000-05:00

Bone Heads

2011-01-24T09:07:00.003-05:00

Below are exact quotes from the subject headings of 2 months worth of Viagra related spam sent to my email account. Apparently some folks out there are very concerned about me. While I am flattered by the attention they really needn't worry themselves. They seem to have larger and harder problems to solve. Like how to attain a most basic grasp of the english language. I would be remiss if I failed to mention to them that if their persistent concern for my erections lasts more than 4 emails then they really ought to seek remedial spelling attention immediately!

"Your lady wants your baby maker to be the best worker of the year!
Doon't be a loesr. Be a real maan. Usee Sooft Cilais.
You'll be asotunded at the stifnfess of yoour meeat
Yoour eerction caan be loacted with the usee of plils
You'll shoow her gerat plaesure with a barnd new ercetion
Yoour wmoan wiill bceome craezd by yoour erectionSpuer Vigara.
Want to act like a porndirector? Attack a blu colored med
Strengtehn yoour seuxal sklils with Sooft Vaigra.
Yoour lovres wiill apprecaite the flulness of yoour ercetion
A ltitle biit of Ciails and yoour bnoer wiill be baack
Doon't feeel guitly aobut watning to havee graet seex
yoour boenr wiill coome to lifee quikcly
Why moost meen caan noot satifsy thier wmoen
Birng the pleausre for yoour laady wheen you take Vigara
Yoour peins yaerns to be retsored and tehse pil-ls caan do it."

The Final Word On Palin

2011-01-19T12:59:00.006-05:00

No one is better at so precisely eviscerating while tying it all up in a pretty knot as is Stephen Colbert.

OK Crayons

2011-01-19T09:39:00.005-05:00

A New Icon For Insanity

2011-01-12T09:21:00.003-05:00

It struck me immediately upon seeing this picture that it was the very icon of insanity. A perfect illustration of what crazy might look like.

Doodled on by a bored 7 year old girl

Diane Arbus, Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962

Two For Tuesday

2011-01-11T09:06:00.000-05:00

Space Cadets

2011-01-10T09:32:00.002-05:00

From Shorpy

Circa 1905. Anyplace, USA. "Schoolboys." In spiffy foil uniforms. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Phoned In

2011-01-06T14:38:00.008-05:00

A few recent pictures made on my phone

Man Hand

2011-01-05T09:31:00.000-05:00

Squirrels That Grow From Trees, Woodpecker Holes and Bald Eagles

2011-01-04T10:07:00.000-05:00

Trees

2011-01-03T10:00:00.001-05:00

Holler Daze

2010-12-21T12:56:00.003-05:00

Back after the New Year!

picture above from www.awkward family photos

City Scrapes

2010-12-20T09:24:00.000-05:00

Sad Snow Globe

2010-12-16T09:43:00.000-05:00

Albert Einstein, Barack Obama and... That dude

2010-12-15T08:34:00.004-05:00

Frame Store, Port Authority subway station

Pretty City

2010-12-14T09:11:00.000-05:00

... and A Pear In A Partridge Tree

2010-12-13T10:22:00.001-05:00

Adieu Bouquinistes

2010-12-10T09:05:00.000-05:00

A recent NPR story, HERE, details the fight for survival of the Iconic, Parisian booksellers that line the Seine River. There's little value in being sentimental but still, you hate to see something like this vanish.

Eugene Atget, Boutique Journaux, Rue de Sèvres, Paris, 1910

Film still from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless

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The Joker

2010-12-09T08:58:00.002-05:00

Without a doubt this is one of the better Jokers I've run across in a deck of cards. I'd really like to see this as a tattoo on someone. Just not myself.

Smudgy Computer Monitor and Small Yellow Elephant

2010-12-08T09:47:00.000-05:00

Bus Stop Festivas Chaos

2010-12-07T09:00:00.000-05:00

Too Much Coffee

2010-12-06T08:52:00.000-05:00

I'm pretty certain that this is what happens if you drink too much coffee.

First Comes The Rain

2010-12-02T09:09:00.003-05:00

Then all the sad and stranded worms

Er Meters

2010-12-01T08:42:00.000-05:00

Monday Love

2010-11-29T09:17:00.000-05:00

Evan Sklar

A Few From The Weekend

Harold Feinstein

Pretty Penny and Skinny Minny

Blue Room

What Irene Left Behind

After Irene

Shenandoah Valley Viewed From Traffic Jam

I 81

Somewhere, Virginia

Forbidden Cave

On the Vine

The Age of Aquarium

Havre de Grace

Lobbies

Aberdeen, Pool

Aberdeen, Parking Lots

Off the Grid

Big Rig

Bits and Baubles

The Piano

Weekend Visit to the Louis Armstrong House

Warnin

Naked Mom

Cloverfield Factory

Super Model Cheerios

Plots and Lots

Pink Lemon Aid, Parking Lot and Pool

Blue Jersey

Glove and Hat

Windows, New Jersey

Breakfast Club

View From Sheraton, Somewhere, New Jersey

All's Fair

Cute Couple

A Few From the Weekend

EST. 1954

Leaves of Grass

Remember

Sunday Afternoon Walkabout

Stormy

A Baker's Super Nova

Orange Balloon

... But Few Are Chosen 3

Analogue

Soda Pop

Best of....

iPad In Bed

Now It's Spring

Play Ball!

Ablemare County

Outside Charlottesville, Virginia

I.C D.C, Day Three

A.D.D In D.C

I.C D.C

Spring Eggs

A Bit of the Green

A Few From the Weekend

Pink Pickle Juice Light and Orchids

Strand Stand

Hot Monday

...But Few Are Chosen

Weirdo Beardo

Jet Yellow

Weighty

Descend The Stairs With A Tranquil Demeanor

A Few For Valentine's Day

Yuck

Aculed dna Nead

PS, I Love You

Chicken Soup

My Morning Commute

Awwww!

Lartigue's Winter Pictures

More Snow Again, Again, Again

More Snow Again, Again

A Few From the Weekend

Bone Heads

The Final Word On Palin

OK Crayons