#nyc1990s

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Manhattan Night

[I've posted this before, but had another go at optimizing the scans of the medium format negatives.]

These two views were taken from the roof of a Manhattan building, on 22nd Street, looking uptown. Beyond the main subject here, the Empire State Building, another icon of the Manhattan skyline can be seen—the RCA Building. It is just to the left of the Empire State Building, bathed in light, but also lost in fog.

At the time of this photograph, the RCA Building had been renamed the GE Building, and would eventually come to be known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Also at this time: the ESB stood out almost in a singular fashion between the downtown cluster of skyscrapers (around Wall Stree) and the midtown cluster. Since then, the skyline has grown considerably to take away from this prominence.

The Empire State Building is located between 33rd and 34th Streets, and the RCA building between 49th and 50th Streets—while both lie between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in December of 1994.

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Studio Watch

Here’s a test shot I made of a watch I used to wear. I took this image while working in a studio on 22nd Street, in New York. I eschewed color for some reason at that time, which was probably a bit short-sighted. This was made using a 4″ x 5″ view camera.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken in the early 1990s.

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Studio Bra

This was taken in a small apartment in Manhattan, but can’t remember the neighborhood. The laundry hangs in the air shaft, and the tub was in the kitchen—I wish I’d taken a shot of that.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken 1995.

[railwayhistorical]

Manhattan Night

These two images were taken from the roof of a building on 22nd Street, looking uptown toward midtown. Beyond the main subject here, the Empire State Building, is another icon of the Manhattan skyline—the RCA Building. It can be seen just to the left of the Empire State Building, bathed in light.

At the time of this photograph, the RCA Building had been renamed the GE Building, and would eventually be known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Also at this time: the ESB stood out in the area between the downtown cluster of skyscrapers and the midtown cluster. Since then, the skyline has grown considerably to give it less prominence.

The Empire State Building is located between 33rd and 34th Streets, and the RCA building between 49th and 50th Streets—while both are between 5th and 6th Avenues.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in December of 1994.

[railwayhistorical]

Bullet Points

This image was made in the studio in which I worked in Manhattan. The area was known as the Photo District—in the upper twenties between Fifth and Seventh Avenues or so.

I made this image using a 4″ x 5″ view camera. One image by Richard Koenig; taken in the early 1990s.

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Two families, one table—Coney Island, ’99.