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BSQ Productions

Description

These pictures are specific venues of New York City, a condition of emptiness during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Sujets

• Photographie Créative
• Lockdown
• Photography
• Empty
• Mike Carden
• Subjects
• Themes
• Street Photography

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 26 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665553537
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

EMPTY
New York City in Lockdown
 
 
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ARNIE GOODMAN

Contents
Publisher’s Note
Foreword
Introduction
Financial District Battery Park
World Trade Center Tribeca
Greenwich Village
Meatpacking District Hell’s Kitchen
Times Square Theater District
Upper West Side
Harlem Central Park
Upper East Side United Nations
Midtown Murray Hill
Flatiron Union Square
East Village Lower East Side
Little Italy Chinatown
Acknowledgments
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
These surreal images should be a constant reminder that people are the lifeblood of any community, whether large or small. NYC is truly a testament to what mankind can accomplish if we all work together towards a common goal. As we overcome this pandemic, people will once again fill the streets, buildings and subways of this beautiful city, and all others, around the globe.
We would like to recognize and sincerely thank Arnie Goodman, photographer extraordinaire, for capturing some of the most iconic pictures of The City That Never Sleeps during the earlier stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Special thanks to Michael W. Carden for pulling it all together. Without his vision and coordination, none of this would have been possible.
Bruce S. Quarto
Publisher - Exec. Producer
President & CEO
BSQ Productions, Inc.
FOREWORD
Arnie Goodman was a successful music photographer before the Covid-19 pandemic, but when “Shelter in place” became law, New York City, his home town, shut down and, suddenly, he was out of business. Arnie, however, never just hears a door clanging shut, he hears doors opening, and he’s done that all his life.
As a student, he frequented Greenwich Village clubs like the Fillmore East and Gerde’s Folk City, haunting record and book stores by day. “If I had any money left after leaving Dayton Records, I’d spend it at the Strand Bookstore,” Arnie said.
After college, Arnie’s extensive record collection opened a door: he started Zig Zag Records, a prescient name for his career path. Soon, he had four stores. With many musician customers and a habit of turning acquaintances into lifelong friends, his next career shift led to his managing bands.
Arnie traveled the world with clients and his guitar- slinging friends, including Mick Taylor, Peter Green, Kim Simmonds, Rory Gallagher, Keith Richards and Alvin Lee for years, recording them on his own Viceroy Records. The whole time, Arnie photographed his musicians as a hobbyist, wielding a hand-me-down camera and learning the basics through trial and error.
Meanwhile, I helped establish the New York City Blues Society, and wound up doing the Society’s newsletter. Arnie kept bugging me. “You should do a real magazine, Suzanne.” He offered to help.
We cooked up Elmore Magazine in September of 2004, and by May 2005 had issues in Barnes & Noble. Our partnership was perfect. “Arnie knows the music, and I can spell,” I’d say. Well-established writers and photographers joined in when they saw Elmore’s commitment and quality, and Arnie ramped up his photography, covering music festivals for the magazine.
Photo Editor Matt Helminski steered Elmore through four Art Directors (fired, died, fired, survived) and used some of Arnie’s photos. Early on, after a difficult shoot, Matt told Arnie, “These aren’t great pictures, but we’re going to have to use them.” That moment galvanized both men. Matt saw Arnie’s potential, worked with him on the technical aspects of photography, and Arnie began shooting like a professional. Soon he’d sold some images for CD covers.
In another zig zag, 2012’s Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City, and among the $70 billion in losses were Arnie Goodman’s 12,000 records and all his film photos. His next door opened onto digital photography, and today, Arnie Goodman prints hang in museums, clubs and artists’ homes. His work appears in Elmore , The London Times , Rolling Stone , Mojo , Vintage Guitar and Classic Rock , and on album covers and artists’ posters from Les Paul to Richie Havens to John Mayall.
With the pandemic, Arnie roamed hometown streets to document the unimaginable: New York City, Empty . He revisited the Brooklyn Bridge he crossed as a kid, the Village locations of his college days and the bright lights, restaurants and clubs of his adult life—all vacant.
When the world fully re-opens, I know Arnie Goodman will be there with his lens, on a new and undoubtedly fascinating journey. Until then.
Suzanne Cadgène
January, 2021
Elmore Magazine Publisher , writer and Blues Hall of Fame inductee Suzanne Cadgène lives in New York.
INTRODUCTION
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York’s most populous borough, my trips to Manhattan—The City—took me up Flatbush Avenue and over the Brooklyn Bridge. For half a century, to me, Manhattan meant music, exciting people and adventure.
Like everybody else, by February 2020 I was paying attention to what was going on around the world with Covid-19. By March 15 th , all of New York City was shut down. No dining out or entertainment, no traffic, no human contact. The result and the eeriest part was the complete lack of any noise or movement whatsoever. We have never seen anything like this, and hopefully, never will again.
I started to think about shooting photos of Manhattan. I feared entering the worst location of a rampant and seemingly random pandemic, where everywhere signs, TV and radio all urged, “Stay Safe! Stay Home!” Nevertheless, my impulse as a photojournalist kicked in, and I decided to venture out to document what was going on.
As I always had, I started at the Brooklyn Bridge. When I finished my initial trip, I had no idea what I would do with the shots, but on that first day I knew that this was the shoot of a lifetime.
Not since this city was founded by the Dutch in 1624 as New Amsterdam had it ever been shut down—it had weathered plagues, wars, riots, blackouts, hurricanes and 9/11.The historic significance of this project hit me like a hammer, and I became determined to capture this long moment.
As I went through Manhattan—up the avenues and down the highways, in the train stations, over the iconic bridges, through the key tunnels—I saw churches, music venues, restaurants, retail stores and neighborhoods, all spookily deserted; even Times Square, “The Crossroads of the World,” was empty.
My own lifelong memories are of a vibrant city teeming with busy people and the constant clatter and hum of a city’s life. Whatever the future brings, I will never again see my beautiful City without thinking of it the way it was in the Spring of 2020.
My goal in capturing these images was to share New York, New York the way my eyes saw it then: E mpty .
Stay safe.
Arnie Goodman