Kenneth Nelson

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Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 13

Top five article posts on my Substack. #Photography #Newsletters #PhotoEssays 👉 photokenarts.substack.com

A poster listing the top five posts on Kenneth's Substack called "Living Life Photographically." A link is provided:

https://photokenarts.substack.com

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 13

Daily Random #805 The old Kentile Floors sign Gowanus/Brooklyn NYC 2003 #IndustrialZone #Photography #GowanusCanal Photo essays & slideshows photokenarts.substack.com

A color photograph on the corner of 9th Street & 2nd Avenue in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. The old Kentile Floors sign sits high on steel scaffolding above a two story warehouse. Sitting perpendicular to the Smith-9th Street elevated subway station, the sign can be seen when looking out the subway car northward as the train turns the curve over the Gowanus Canal.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 13

This week’sMonday essay is immersive audio visual! Wake Up Everybody. #PhotoEssay #Photography #Teaching #Learning 👉🏽 photokenarts.substack.com/p/wake-up-ev...

A black & white poster titled "Wake Up Everybody." Photographed from overhead thee scene shows someone with their fist high in the air looking down at them in a crowd of others. The fist is tightly held in solidarity, The face of the person is out of focus, but can make out they're wearing a face mask.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 12

Daily Random #804 Fragments of industry Hunts Point/Bronx NYC 2018 #Photography #EarthMover #IndustriaZone Photo essays & slideshows photokenarts.substack.com

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 11

Daily Random #803 Stand Clear Union Square/Manhattan NYC 2017 #Straphangers #Photography #Underground Photo essays & slideshows photokenarts.substack.com

A color photograph taken in the NYC subway as a train arrives in the station. Straphangers are positioning themselves to where the doors will open to make sure they're able to get into the crowded car.

Above their heads is a sign cautioning passengers to "Stand Clear of Moving Platform." Viewed from behind the passengers, one of them takes a look around her to analyze her surroundings.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 9

Daily Random #801 Subway scene Greenwich Village/Manhattan NYC 2019 #Photography #NYCTransit #SubwayNYC 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A color photograph taken as straphangers exit the West 4th Street subway station in Greenwich Village NYC. One landing from street level, the morning sunlight reflecting off the brown ceramic walls as four people walk away from the camera's position on their way up and out of the system. The closest person to camera looks to be a man as he's transitioning from one from to another in his cadence. The left foot and legs looks to be lagging in a dragging effect that adds a bit of tension to the overall photograph.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 9

It’s a “Ten Frames” Thursday! Smiles-n-Smiles To Go #Photography #HouseMusic #DanceFreestyle 👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/ten-frames...

A color poster titled "Ten Frames #109, Two Minutes." Photo shows two people dancing. At the time, the faces are lit up with lots of joy and enthusiasm. The primary distinction is the smiles on their faces are they dance.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 8

Daily Random #800 Red Hook/Brooklyn NYC 1987 #UrBex #Photography #UrbanExploration visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A black & white photograph taken at an unidentified industrial site in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook. A huge doorway without any doors is shown with two people just inside the threshold, and into a void or darkness. It's actually an old, barely used Grain Terminal, built in the 1920 that stand twelve floors hight.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 7

Daily Random #799 Ephemeral Self Red Hook/Brooklyn NYC 1988 #SelfPortrait #Photography 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A black-and-white photograph, a double exposure, self-portrait. On the bottom right laying on a bench is a person with a jacket, gloves, jeans and shoes on. The benches facing toward the right, and I and the person laying down as a blank look on their face into an abyss.
Behind that person as a doppelgänger, reaching out to them for inquiry of some sort. There seems to be in an ability for him to touch the other. They seem to exist in different dimensions.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 6

Daily Random #798 Carnival games Little Italy/Manhattan NYC 2005 #Photography #FeastofSanGennaro #LittleItaly 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A black & white photograph taken at the annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy, Manhattan. A line has formed at one of the carnival games where people can win prizes of goldfish. One of the young girls standing in line is looking behind them towards camera with a look of indifference as the game hosts is counting money

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 6

Here's the latest weekly Monday photo essay. #Photography #Substack #FivePointz #Queens 👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/one-photo-...

A black & white poster titled "One Photo, One Story. Number 1." Showing a close up of someone's face filling the frame. That face being from a mural on the wall of a revered building that was demolished to make way for residential redevelopment.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 5

Daily Random #797 Midtown #pinhole Manhattan NYC 2013 #Photography #SlowShutter Photo essays & slideshows photokenarts.substack.com

A black & white photograph taken with a pinhole camera at the corner of West 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The slow shutter speeds shows all moving things as a blur, including people walking a vehicles going by. As the buildings are stationary, they're in relative sharp focus.Those people who were stationary during the exposure are rendered sharply as to make out their details.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 4

Daily Random #796 Blue + Yellow Brooklyn NYC 1987 Photo essays & slideshows photokenarts.substack.com

A color photograph of two bottles. One filled with blue food coloring, another filled with yellow food coloring. The yellow bottle has tipped over, leaking into a shot glass--the color dripping out of the yellow bottle isn't yellow. It's green.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 3

Daily Random #795 April snow Japanese Hill & Pond Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden NYC 2000 #Photography #Gardening 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A picturesque black & white scene at the Japanese Hill & Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. April snow has fallen and blanketed the cherry blossoms and fresh grown grass on the hills and trees.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 2

Daily Random #794 Certified Realities Oculus, World Trade Center/Manhattan NYC 2021 #Photography #SantiagoCalatrava 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

Color photograph of Santiago Calatrava's Oculus transit hub at the World Trade Center site. Viewed from across Church Street in the morning sunshine, half of the Oculus is hidden behind the corner of this building in the forefront. Since the facade is of glass, the reflection of the oculus off of the glass, it merges the same halves together to form a completed Oculus.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 2

Reflections on lessons learned! A vlog conversation. #Photography #TeachingPhotography Photo essays & slideshows 👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/what-photo...

A black & white poster with titles "What Photography Taught Us, 3BPG EP79." The photo shows two men grilling food at an outdoor festival. One of them using tongs to flip food over as the other seems to be using a fork and knife, unknown how because they not in camera's view. In the background is a sign that reads I(Le)monade - Ice Tea.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jul 1

Daily Random #793 Double Dutch Dancing Harlem NYC 2001 #DoubleDutch #JumpRope #Photography Photo essays & slideshows photokenarts.substack.com

A black & white photograph of four girls jumping in line under a set of double dutch jump ropes. As the syncopation of the ropes hit the ground, all four girls jump into a dance formation alternating in form and shape one behind the other from the view of the camera's Ange.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 30

Daily Random #792 Avant garde millinery Fifth Avenue/Manhattan NYC 2016 #Photography #EasterParade #MillineryFestival 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A color photograph taken at the annual Easter Parade & Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan NYC. A model is wearing a soft brimmed plastic top hat with a black band on the brim. A red rose is pinned to the black band. The top is over a foot in height. The photo's perspective is looking down from over the hat as the model is peering through the see-through brim in to the camera.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 29

Daily Random #791 Bronx NYC 2018 #Photography #TrainYard 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A bright silver chain link fence atop a concrete wall protects the NYC train yard in The Bronx. A few fluffy clouds drift past in the distance against a saturated blue sky behind the fence

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 29

The weekly Monday photo essay! #Hoboken #NewJersey #Photography 👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/hoboken-on...

A black & white poster with title "Hoboken on a White, Day-triping to Jersey." The Erie Lackawanna Terminal sits on the edge of The Hudson River in Hoboken New Jersey. Remnant and reminiscent of it 1907 construction. The clock tower as its centerpiece. With only three of its six ferry docks in service these days.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 28

Daily Random #790 #Spectators Fifth Avenue/Manhattan NYC 2003 #Photography #CuriosOnlookers 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A black-and-white photograph taken on the streets of fifth Ave., Manhattan in 2003. Seven young men dressed in sports related clothing or distracted by something happening off camera towards the left. The curiosity on their faces is intense. Contrasting with the awning of the Café Pierre in the background. All during the annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 27

Daily Random #789 Inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal Erie Basin/Red Hook/Brooklyn NYC 1987 #Photography #UrBex #UrbanExploration Read about it in this 2023 newsletter 👇 open.substack.com/pub/photoken...

a 1987 black-and-white photograph taken inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal in Brooklyn, New York. Industrial rubber is strewn all over as sunlight shines in from the left side. What looks to be a rollup gate sits on the floor in the center of the room. It's no smoking sign hangs precariously from the ceiling. Graffiti on the walls. Window panes in the distance, broken and boarded up. Exemplifying the essence of what has been known as urban exploration.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 26

Daily Random #788 From “Coney Island House” series Riegelmann Boardwalk/Coney Island NYC 2007 #HouseMusic #DanceMusic #Photography #HouseHead 👉 knp125.visura.co/coney-island...

A black & white photograph taken on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island, 2007. As a DJ spins house music on the decks, two dancers have teamed up for a freestyle match up In this move, which seems to form in a letter "y" configuration. The woman is perched upside down on the man's right leg as he hold her by the waist with her right leg in front of her upside down body reaching out to the right side of the photo as her left leg is behind her and behind her dance partner who is dancing in the split formed between her legs. It seems she's about to roll out into a handstand from the position, and from there bring her feet to the boardwalk into an upright position.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 25

Daily Random #787 Exploring the act of #sharing Midtown Manhattan NYC 2017 #Photography #NewYorkCity #Empanada visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A color photograph of two people at a street festival in Manhattan. A young woman holds out an empanada to a man taking a bite of it as she looks on with a sense of care and kindness.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 25

It’s the latest biweekly “Ten Frames” slideshow! Down On The Corner, Out Here In The Street. #Slideshow #Photography #StreetPhotography 👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/ten-frames...

A color poster with title, "Ten Frames #108, Two Minutes." Behind the title is a surrealist like photograph taken from just above the surface of a sidewalk. The sun is low in the sky while a person stand on the corner in between the camera and sun. That person's head is placed exactly where the sun is behind them, giving off a glow of light where the person's head would be. in the foreground is a long shadow that the sun is giving off from where the person is standing to just in front of camera, which appear to about twenty feet.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 24

Daily Random #786 Crunch time on the F Train Herald Square station/Manhattan NYC 2017 #RushHour #Commuting #Photography 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 23

The Newsletter's at... photokenarts.substack.com/p/rhyolite-i...

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 23

Daily Random #785 City as industry, soda plant (land sold and redeveloped for residential ca.2003-2008) Long Island City/Queens NYC 2000 #IndustrialZone #Photography #PepsiSign 👉 visura.co/storymanager...

A black-and-white photograph taken just outside the grounds of the Pepsi Cola bottling plant in Long Island city Queens before redevelopment of 2003 through 2008. The single-story plant is on the right with loading bays. Just in the distance is the famous neon Pepsi Cola bottling sign on the shore of the East River, facing Manhattan.

The land was sold in the early 2000s, and redeveloped for residential apartment. Shifting the neighborhood from industrial to residential in a matter of a decade.

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 22

Daily Random #784 Along the Hudson River Manhattan NYC 2017 #Greenways #HudsonRiver #Photography 👉 visura.co/KNP125/purch...

A color photograph taken on the greenways along the Hudson River of Manhattan's west side. At Pier 34, a lone jogger runs past the camera while the Hudson River meanders in the background with the skyline of Jersey City is further in the distance. At the end of Pier 34 stands a ventilation shaft for the Holland Tunnel that runs underneath the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey

Kenneth Nelson@photokenarts· Jun 22

It's the weekly Monday photo essay! A reminder... #GhostTowns #Rhyolite #Photography 👉 photokenarts.substack.com/p/rhyolite-i...