Reaping the benefit of having MoMA at walking distance between home & work.
Dorothea Lange || Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona. November 1940 
Dorothea Lange || Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle. June 1938 
Dorothea Lange || Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. March 1936 
Dorothea Lange || Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. March 1936 
Dorothea Lange || A Destitute Mother: The Type Aided by the WPA. March 1936 
SITE, James Wines || Highrise of Homes, project (Exterior perspective)1981
James Wines, a founding member in 1970 of the SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) architectural group, described the Highrise of Homes project as a “vertical community” to “accommodate people’s conflicting desires to enjoy the cultural advantages of an urban center, without sacrificing the private home identity and garden space associated with suburbia.” The plan calls for a steel-and-concrete, eight-to-ten-story, U-shaped building frame erected in a densely populated urban area. The developer would sell lots within this frame, each lot the site for a house and garden in a style chosen by the purchaser. The result would be a distinct villagelike community on each floor, with interior streets. A central mechanical core would serve these homes and gardens, while shops, offices, and other facilities on the ground and middle floors would provide for the residents’ needs.
Developers considered Battery Park City, New York, as a possible location for the project, but it was never built.
Marlene Dumas || Chlorosis (Love sick), 1994 [detail] 
Marlene Dumas || Chlorosis (Love sick), 1994 
Marlene Dumas || Chlorosis (Love sick), 1994 [detail] 
Frances Benjamin Johnston || From the Hampton Album 1899-1900. Geography: Studying the Seasons 
Frances Benjamin Johnston || From the Hampton Album 1899-1900. Geography: Studying the Cathedral Towns 
Frances Benjamin Johnston || From the Hampton Album 1899-1900. Stairway of Treasurer’s Residence: Students at Work
”After setting up her own photography studio in 1894, in Washington, D.C., Frances Benjamin Johnston was described by The Washington Times as “the only lady in the business of photography in the city.” Considered to be one of the first female press photographers in the United States, she took pictures of news events and architecture and made portraits of political and social leaders for over five decades.
In 1899, the principal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia commissioned Johnston to take photographs at the school for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The Hampton Institute was a preparatory and trade school dedicated to preparing African American and Native American students for professional careers. Johnston took more than 150 photographs and exhibited them in the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique (American Negro Exhibit) pavilion, which was meant to showcase improving race relations in America. The series won the grand prize and was lauded by both the public and the press.
Years later, writer and philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein discovered a leather-bound album of Johnston’s Hampton Institute photographs. He gave the album to The Museum of Modern Art, which reproduced 44 of its original 159 photographs in a book called The Hampton Album, published in 1966.” [source]
February 7th, 2020
The Humble Fabulist 