![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
“Kubrick’s striking black and white images of 1940s New York City — which were often shot on the sly, his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it — hint at the dark beauty and psychological drama of his later creative output. Now, VandM is making 25 select prints from the nearly 10,000 photos that he took as a young man available for purchase for the first time. The majority of the proceeds going to the Museum of the City of New York.’
- V and M
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The man always had an eye for a good shot. Love the bicycle tightrope one. Who is the man shouting? – not a barker by his dress, but it makes you wonder what is going on. A story in a still.
The act in the circus pictures is the Alzana troupe famous on Ringling Bros. for Years. The person in the front is circus owner John Ringling North.
who is the blonde woman reading? anyone know?
I hope he stopped to help that one girl carry her books down the stairs after he took her picture..lol.
Quiet man – Her name is Betsy Von Furstenberg. Broadway Actress.