Bright lights, full skirts and deep shadow shape New York City in the 1950s. In New York City Never Sleeps, Peter Fetterman Gallery shows us the post-war city  glistening with life and grotesque figures”, with pictures from Bruce Davidson, Louis Stettner, Sabine Weiss and Louis Faurer, among others. These pictures were taken at a time when older photographers working then wanted to create pictures that looked like paintings but reality was coming up fast. NYC was a place bathed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘revolutions of light”, a city of “light dividing like pearls – forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.” New York City Never Sleeps is at NYC’s Peter Fetterman Gallery.   Martin Elkort, Grabbing The Brass Ring, 1950 Louis Faurer (United States, 1916-2001) Union Square from Ohrbach’s Window, New York, N.Y., 1948-50 Louis Stettner 1922-2016 Times Square at Night, New York, 1952 What made it worse, it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it was Saturday night. I didn’t see hardly anybody on the street. Now and then you just saw a man and a girl crossing a street, with their arms around each other’s waists and all, or a bunch of hoodlumy-looking guys and their dates, all of them laughing like hyenas at something you could bet wasn’t funny. New York’s terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed. – JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye   Louis Faurer (United States, 1916-2001) Union Square from Ohrbach’s Window, New York, N.Y., 1948-50 Sabine Weiss, New York Ted Croner 1922-2005 Central Park South, 1948 Louis Stettner 1922-2016 Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York, 1954 Bruce Davidson 1933 Brooklyn Gang (couple kissing in the back seat of a car), 1959 Louis Stettner 1922-2016 Six Lights, Penn Station, 1958 Louis Faurer (United States, 1916-2001) New York, NY (Tulip Cab Corp), 1950 Lead Image: Sabine Weiss 1924-2021 Times Square, 1955. The post New York City Never Sleeps – 1950s appeared first on Flashbak.

  In 1811, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika (葛飾 北斎; c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) changed his name to Taito and began work on his Hokusai Manga (curious drawings) and various etehon, or art manuals. His first volume of Manga was published in 1814 and was an immediate success. He produced twelve volumes in his lifetime, with three more published posthumously. The volumes are block-printed in black, grey and pink, and contain depictions of multitude of things, including people, natural features, constructions, landscapes and work tools. Each page collects a set of different illustrations tied to a specific theme or a series of variations on the same figure, intended to explain different kinds of movements.     “From the age of six, I had a passion for copying the form of things and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking into account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one hundred I shall perhaps truly have reached the level of the marvellous and divine. When I am one hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.” – Hokusai Katsushika         14 out of 15 Hokusai’s Manga are hosted under a Public Domain License on Archive.org The post Hokusai’s Manga, 1814-1878 – 15 Books of Everything appeared first on Flashbak.