Long Island City on a recent Sunday afternoon.
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Like other arts, there is good graffiti and bad graffiti. This is certainly good because it so well gets across the feeling of despair that is evident in the residents faces and neighborhood. There are indeed, many faces in the city!
Obsessed with this photo! I love how the man’s face is blurred as he walks by, but Five Pointz faces are posing for you. I only hope they don’t tear the complex down. Thank you for capturing it, and so very well.
There’s something “inner city blues” about this photo – gritty and smooth all at the same time. I like it, Ellen!
A wonderful study in contrasts – the black and white grafitti portraits vs. the real life man and other grafitti. But the introspective posture and portraits echo each other, as if 5 Pointz is not the happiest place in the Big Apple.
Excellent! It really hits a nerve – it has a frightening, scary feeling – a photo that your emotions have to react to.
I need to tell you all that there was nothing frightening about the place. The art was beautiful and very well painted, and the building was surrounded with people and children taking photographs. It was just serendipity that the man with the hat walked into my picture. I was shooting the art and the kid on the stairs to the right. I think the emotion that this is bringing out in some of you is based on living in New York in the ’70s when graffiti started covering the whole city, and felt threatening. They are trying to landmark this building. If you’d like to read more about the place, here’s a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Pointz
And as always, thanks for your support of my work.
This is a wonderful photograph–both abstract and real in nature with contrasts of black/white and color. Way to go. This is art.
I love this one! Especially how the actual figure is out of focus but the painted face is clear.