This hand-colored portrait of an unidentified woman was taken by an unknown photographer circa 1935. But to a contemporary eye, trained by social media, it may suggest hashtags from #ThrowbackThursday to #BlackLivesMatter. It’s one of some hundred still and moving images, spanning a century and a half, in the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change,” which considers how advances in technology have politicized visual culture. Opens Jan. 27.
NIGHT LIFE
ROCK AND POP
Musicians and night-club proprietors lead complicated lives; it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements.
Julie Byrne
Byrne has been engrossed in music since she left Buffalo, at the age of eighteen, with stops in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Seattle, and New Orleans. Not long after moving to New York, this country-folk songwriter found herself starved for…
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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 30, 2017