New York in the 1940s

[SeaBreeze]

Interesting old photos of the subway in New York, taken by Stanley Kubrick. http://www.vintag.es/2011/12/stanley-kubricks-photos-of-1940s-new.html

 

[RadishRose]

Thanks Sea Breeze, I enjoyed looking at those people. Imagine! No one held a cell phone, smart phone ipad or lap top. How different it would be today.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Would be a refreshing change RadishRose!

 

[SifuPhil]

Plenty of fedoras and corsages, no graffiti, but you still had the guy sleeping on the platform.

Thanks, Sea - I never knew that Kubrick did this kind of photography. Opens a whole new file of research for me now ...

 

[Meanderer]

A time of a different dress code, when very few 17 year old's were taking pictures. An innocent time. Thanks SB!

 

[SeaBreeze]

Just updated the link to this thread.

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, his reluctance to talk about his films, and his reclusiveness. He maintained almost complete artistic control, making movies according to his own whims and time constraints, but with the rare advantage of big-studio financial support for all his endeavors.

Before Stanley Kubrick was a filmmaker, he was a New York City-based photojournalist for Look magazine. His photography career began in 1945 when Kubrick sold a photo to Look (he was just 17 at the time.) From 1946 to 1950, Kubrick worked for the magazine, completing more than 300 assignments documenting the sights and people of New York City.

 

[Sunny]

Wow, lots of old memories there, Seabreeze! I grew up in NJ, most of our family was in NY, and my college was NYU, so this all looked very familiar!

 

[Pappy]

A few more.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

Great photos. I'm surprised the lady walking down the street didn't have seams in her stockings or maybe she doesn't have stockings on at all.

 

[JaniceM]

Great photos. I'm surprised the lady walking down the street didn't have seams in her stockings or maybe she doesn't have stockings on at all.

My mother said young women often used those self-tanning products to make it look like they were wearing stockings.

 

[RadishRose]

My mother said young women often used those self-tanning products to make it look like they were wearing stockings.

If it was before the end of WW2, there were no stockings, I was told.

 

[JaniceM]

If it was before the end of WW2, there were no stockings, I was told.

That could have a lot to do with it too.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I never knew that. Very interesting Janice and RadishRose. That solves the stocking question.

 

[Sunny]

There was a stocking shortage during the war, as I think all available nylon was needed for parachutes. Somebody did introduce leg makeup, which was supposed to look like stockings, but it
really looked pretty awful.

 

[Meanderer]

The Short-lived 1940s NYC Tabloid That “Dared to Tell the Truth”

 

[Pappy]

 

[Buckeye]

Great stuff! What is it about black & white photos that draw us in? Does the lack of color unknowingly force us to pay more attention to the composition and the detail? Or something else? I dunno.

 

[Meanderer]

Great stuff! What is it about black & white photos that draw us in? Does the lack of color unknowingly force us to pay more attention to the composition and the detail? Or something else? I dunno.

I think it was the better quality cameras and film, which produced higher resolution photos, that shows more detail. Black & White was cheaper.

 

[Pappy]

 

[RadishRose]

delete

 

[RadishRose]

The Short-lived 1940s NYC Tabloid That “Dared to Tell the Truth”

Interesting link, got lost in there for awhile!

 

[Aunt Bea]

Great photos!

Here is quick glimpse from the air.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Meanderer]

Ephemeral New York

"Would you wash your clothes by hand in the lake in Central Park? These three women did it, and they had a reason".

"December 16, 1949—the day the photo was taken—was “dry Friday” in New York City. Thanks to a severe drought that left upstate reservoirs at 34 percent capacity, city residents were forbidden to shave, bathe, or do any other activity that day if it required water".


"These three women—Copacabana girls, part of the East Side nightclub’s famous chorus girl lineup, per the caption on the photo—are demonstrating their patriotic duty to do laundry without any running water".