NYC 2021: My Year in My Pictures

December 16th, 2021 § 0 comments

First Responder, 1 train, September 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)

Perhaps because I am hyperverbal – in person, in my writing, in my consumption of information, in my choice of entertainment – it perhaps should not be surprising that I take great pleasure in the visual and silent pursuit of photography. I do not have, I have long known, a visual imagination, but my purchase of a camera in 2013 has enabled me to capture some of what I see in the world and the way in which I see it. So I when I leave my apartment, I am most often accompanied by a bulky DSLR, the better to see you with, although I do snag the occasional great image with nothing but my phone.

In this second pandemic restricted year, I haven’t traveled far beyond Manhattan – and I’ve not been out of New York more than a half-dozen times since March of last year. But even when my more expected pleasures, namely movies and theatre, aren’t available, I hope these images give a sense of how much there still is to see in just a few miles radius, and all for free. Beyond that, I’ll let these speak for themselves.

Skateboard buddies, Riverside Park, March 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Hawk, Central Park, March 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Fencing, Riverside Park, March 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Red-winged blackbird, Harlem Meer in Central Park, April 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
I have a ball, April 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Liz Oakley’s “The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages,” as seen in the Arts in Odd Places Festival, May 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
The Lake in Central Park, May 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
The dancer Let Hair Down, Washington Square Park, June 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Graduate, Washington Square Park, June 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Jared Grimes and Tony Yazbeck in “Tina Landau and Friends,” Little Island, June 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Stop having sex, Washington Square Park, July 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Free Poems, Washington Square park, July 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Independence Day, Upper West Side, July 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Independence Day, Times Square, July 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Body Painting Day, Union Square, July 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Body Painting Day, Union Square, July 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Times Square Project, August 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Times Square Project, August 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Times Square Project, August 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
The “Table of Silence Project,” Lincoln Center Plaza, September 11, 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Members of Buglisi Dance Theatre performing the “Table of Silence Project,” Lincoln Center Plaza, September 11, 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Sharkdog, The Loch in Central Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Bowl-Oh-Rama, Coney Island, September 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
West 47th Street at Father Duffy Square, September 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
West 44th Street, September 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Times Square, September 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
The Joker, New York Comic Con, October 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
New York Comic Con, October 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Loki contemplates ice cream, New York Comic Con, October 2021 (Photo © Howard Sherman)
Halloween, Greenwich Village, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Guitarist, Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, East River Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Maleficent, Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, East River Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Pinhead, Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, East River Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Halloween Pumpkin Flotilla, Harlem Meer in Central Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Artist, Riverside Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Halloween, Washington Square Park, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Firemen’s Memorial, Riverside Drive, October 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)
Subway Station, 1/2/3 line, Manhattan, November 2021 (iPhone photo © Howard Sherman)
Laura Benanti, “Sunday” for Sondheim, Duffy Square, November 2021 (photo © Howard Sherman)

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