#nyc1990s

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🗽#ArtIsAWeapon Nice crowd here reminiscing about #NYCNightlife in the 90s! #trueyorker #truetothis #TraScapades Reposted @momentnyc Come experience a slice of 1990s #NYCnightlife. This event will feature photographs taken by Alice Arnold during the early years of Giant Step; a DJ set by DJ Smash + guests; and a panel discussion with Paper Magazine founder, David Hershkovits, Giant Step co-founder and CEO, Maurice Bernstein, Head of Production at Kenzo Digital, Erica Lee Alice Arnold is a documentary media maker and educator who creates, edits, designs and photographs projects that explore the urban environment and visual culture — from street art to advertising and from sidewalks to electric signs. Her films are in the collections of university libraries throughout the United States and have screened at MoMA and other festivals. She is a NYFA Photography Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow in film and an Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York. She recently published "Goldie Timeless" (Cafe Royal Books), a small photo book about a drum‘n'bass event in 1995. 6:00pm Doors 6:30pm Panel Discussion Discussing '90s NYC Giant Step parties in the context of NYC nightlife history. David Hershkovits (founder of Paper Magazine), facilitates a discussion with Maurice Bernstein (Giant Step co-founder and CEO), Erica Lee (former Director of Events at Giant Step), and DJ Smash (original Giant Step DJ) 8pm Live exhibit  Photos by Alice Arnold, Giant Step archival audio mixes, and context 8:30-11:00 After-Party  DJ set by DJ Smash w/live guest performers #nyclubhistory #giantstep #momentnyc #nyc1990s #clubhistoryseries #djsmash #nychistory #dancemusic #nightclubbing #sobs #groovecollective #photography #giantstep #makeartnyc #papermag (at SOB's) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbUCCSMC3l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Butterfly Bullet Hole

This image is a piece of film I exposed in a photo studio on 22nd Street in Manhattan. In the early 1990s, this area was still called the Photo District, but that would soon change. Rents became increasingly high, while fees went south: not sustainable.

This hole was in a window that faced the Empire State Building; it was shot with a four by five inch camera, also still in use at the time. The digital revolution was coming, and most people would stop using large format fairly quickly after this image was made, circa 1993.

One image by Richard Koenig

[railwayhistorical]

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.

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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.

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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.