More melancholy beauty from our man Bags. 

Rothko Seascapes by Tim Burns. 

Picture by our man Bags. Who has been on fire of late.

Picture via Aberrant Beauty. 

Nope, you’re eyes do not deceive you, we are back with yet another Where & When.  It’s been a rather tight few weeks for me, but here I am popping in for a minute with another challenge for you to tackle.  I’ve been sifting through a number of sources for interesting photos that are also large enough to post; that’s been an issue for me because there are quite a few pictures I would like to use, but they are just too darn small.  I’ll finagle with Adobe Illustrator when I have time so that I can resize the small ones without pixelation, but in the meantime let your eyes fly over this fancy:

The city seems to have a a long love affair with fire escapes, and this was certainly no exception.  I feel this one’s distinctive enough to come up with the answer fairly quick, so your job is to find out the address of this building and the date the year the pic was taken (that will be surprisingly easy as well), and also tell us if you can how long the building has or had existed (year built, how old it is now or when it was shut down/demolished) .  Bonus points if you know anything about the photographer(!)

As usual, show us how you came to your answers. Your favorite brand of hot cocoa in a giant mug if you are the first with the answers, a nice cup of tea for us stragglers and a cookie for the bonus.  I will be in and out through the day, but I’ll be studying so please forgive me for not getting back right away.  No peeking at the photo credit and feel free to answer and discuss in the comments.  Have fun folks, see you later in the day!

[Photo credit: Read Media]

Photograph by Boris Ovini.

Photograph via Awake My Soul.

Photographs by Leslie Jones over at Everyday I Show. 

So good. 

Take a trip around Manhattan with Todd Heisler. It’ll make your day.

It snowed yesterday. There’s freezing rain this morning. This picture by Bags is a reminder of sunnier times.

Dive in…

Good ol’ Bags.

Photograph by Maurizio Di lorio.

This 1981 photograph by Irving Penn makes me hungry.

Photograph by Ayako Fuji (1995) via MPD.

I love our man Bags’ pictures from around town.

While you’re at it, check out this Super 8 footage of NYC in the 70s:

This is cool.

From Anonymous by Robert Flynn Johnson.

Photographs by Mario Cravo Neto

at Everyday I Show. 

My man Diebenkorn photographed by Fred Lyon.

[Picture by Maurizio Di Iorio via This Isn’t Happiness]