NYC – Rockefeller Center: Associated Press Building – News
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Isamu Noguchi’s low-relief panel, News has soared above the entrance to the Associated Press Building, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, since its installation on April 29, 1940. Symbolizing the business of its former tenant, the Associated Press, this cast stainless steel Art Deco plaque depicts five journalists "getting a scoop"–the reporter with his pad, the newsman on the phone, the reporter typing out a story, the photographing recording events, and the newsman hearing the news as it comes in on the wire. The Associated Press’ wordwide network is symbolized by diagonal radiating lines extending across the plaque.
Isamu Noguchi won a nationwide invitational competition in 1939 with this 22 foot high by 17 foot wide, 10-ton cast relief, using intense angles and smooth planes to emote the fast fassed environment of the newsroom in what was the first heoric-sized sculpture ever cast in stainless steel. Noguchi cast the piece in nine parts, but they were joined seamlessly so the naked eye could never detect.
Los Angeles born Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, 1904-1988) was a sculptor, theatrical and industrial designer best known for his abstract works and set designs for Martha Graham productions. News was one of his last figurative works, and the only time he employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. His work can be found throughout major metropolitan cities, in museums, and in the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City in New York. Noguchi’s work around New York includes the Sunken Garden for Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza and Red Cube in Helmsley Plaza. His Thunder Rock was also temporarily on display in Rockefeller Plaza.
Rockefeller Center was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1985.
In 2007, Rockefeller Center was ranked #56 on the AIA 150 America’s Favorite Architecture list.
Rockefeller Center National Register #87002591
Obama Wins – The Birmingham News
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It was not a dream, after all. It was real.
This is what my 6-yr-old daughter woke up to this morning. I stayed up and watched the coverage on TV, but this is the first thing she saw – the front page headline of The Birmingham News, Birmingham, AL. She will remember this for the rest of her life, especially having gone to the polls herself yesterday and filling in my ballot for me.
I have been moved to tears many times over the last 12 hours, most recently by watching images from around the world of people waving American flags again. What a great day.
Congratulations, Mr. President. Now let’s get to work.
(please feel free to post other newspaper headlines in the comments!)
PTI News Stand
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This is a news and snack stand in PTI Airport in Greensboro, NC. The attendant skipped off to the right of the photo to avoid her soul being stolen by my camera! Luckily, nobody freaked out on me when I set up my tripod and camera for this shot.
Putting out fire in Bain News Service Bldg. 1/6/12
1/6/12 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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This is an advertisement for a news station in Toronto. The wheels are rotating, a great sign over a parking lot. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Austin Police Department and Cops for Charities recognized Joanna Hernandez for giving them a detailed description and vehicle information that led to Sean McNiece’s arrest. Hernandez received a 00 award and a matching amount from Cops for Charities. Video Rating: 0 / 5
Daily News Building, 42nd Street between Second and Third Av…
Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 482560. Daily News Building, 42nd Street between Second and Third Avenues, Manhattan.. Abbott, Berenice — Photographer. November 21, 1935
Notes: Code: I.A.3. Looking toward East River from tall building, News Bldg., brownstones, the Con Edison plant and an apartment building.
Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)
Zarko Drincic – Yesterday news
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I was walking by the river.I saw few paper boats floting.This one I’v manage to "catch"…And,I’v been very polite,"saying" what I think about "news"…
Subscription to Daily Illus. News [Geo. Grantham Bain] (LOC)
Subscription to Daily Illus. News [Geo. Grantham Bain]
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
