Project: Pondio, day one
Spring break project in full swing: bringing down the pergola that my grandfather and I built (sniff - but it was definitely time) before nature and the tiny screws we inexplicably used have other ideas and replacing it with a patio in front of the pond. Project Pondio has begun; behold my detailed blueprints.
Anthony Angel
Stunning; can’t believe I’m only now learning of Angel’s work. Whole article is fantastic; more beautiful photos there | via Ephemeral New York:
Mental illness set in. Instead of finishing his Harvard degree, he joined the army, and after a medical discharge drifted across the country doing odd jobs before settling in Manhattan.
Armed with a camera and a new identity as Anthony Angel, he spent years promptly leaving his rented room on East 51st Street to crisscross the city, an unlikely documentarian of ordinary glimpses during Gotham’s postwar years.
“On almost every afternoon from 1952 to 1966, [Rizzuto] left his crummy rented room to snap pictures on the New York streets,” wrote New York magazine in 2005.