Here’s my husband Jim’s new batch of incredible Coney Island photographs. These were all taken on May 20, 2017 when Jim, my cousin Marilyn, and two of our friends—Andrew and one who wishes to remain anonymous, visited our beloved Sodom by the Sea.
See his portfolio at http://goo.gl/a5ArA and read his short bio at the bottom.
Child’s Restaurant window
Coney Island Apocalypse
Outside The Coney Island Museum
Outside The Coney Island Museum
On the stairway of The Coney Island Museum (photos aren’t allowed inside)
In the bar of The Coney Island Museum
Outside The Coney Island Museum
In the bar of The Coney Island Museum
According to Jim’s Russian colleague Andrei, who emailed him from a bus in Estonia, the women are advertising Victor Drobysh’s 50th birthday celebration on June 3. He “is the author of some famous pseudo-folk Russian songs sung by so-called babushkas from the village of Buranovo, who won a prize at Eurovision.” See a video of the babushkas at the end.
On the stairway of the Coney Island Museum (photos aren’t allowed inside)
Can anyone guess what this is?
A sculpture. I know!
Originally from Pennsylvania, New York City, and Ithaca, NY, Jim Blythe is Professor Emeritus of medieval European history at the University of Memphis. He has been a serious photographer for almost thirty years.
He was always drawn to close-ups, dramatic color, the abstractions that arise from an uncommon view of a common subject, and the effects of dramatic lighting. Although he photographs a wide variety of photos, his most distinctive work is his Floating World Series: semi-abstract macro images of strongly-backlit objects in bottles of oil. See them at https://goo.gl/ns29mM
Jim Blythe
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