Another museum

Another day, another NY museum.

After the madness (and hysterics) at the Guggenheim yesterday, we did actually go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday too, which was much better and was definitely a "proper" museum that needs more than one trip to experience all the displays. Two things particularly caught my eye - a simple, yet stunning portrait of Vsevolod Garshin painted in 1884 by Ilia Repin and one of the early Dyson cylinder cleaners. Also on display was a John Chamberlain piece (see Mr A's linked entry under 3rd March: http://www.blipfolio.com/JohnA/but-is-it-art), so you can see what I was talking about yesterday.

Anyway, I digress...the museum today was the International Centre of Photography along 43rd Street. Largely simple displays of quite normal photos made me realise that (actually, d'ya know what?) some of our dearest snaps might even look good if they were displayed/mounted properly. So that will be the next thing to organise.

The downstairs of the Photography Centre was made over to show the work of Weegee. According to Wikipedia: "Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 - December 26, 1968), a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and '40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity.[1] Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death."

The blip for today was a quick snap taken of the (non-Weegee) displays when no-one was looking (Mr A is in the centre!). I liked the simplicity of the shot as it captured the moment for me.

The rest of the day was spent at the Empire State Building - too many stunning views to choose from! Needless to say, we stayed there from early afternoon until sundown...