The streets of New York City hide the legendary rock ‘n’ moments you never knew they were there – until Steve Birnbaum brings them back to life.
The great Apple-based photograph and filmmaker is the brain after @thebandwashere-a viral that resorts the iconic album covers the right, where they were shot for decades.
BIRNBAUM traces down, where the famous gang photos were broken, then turns into those correct points to rebuild Shots-album lids, promotional photos, you name them.
His food is a call of NYC rock legends such as shocks, talking heads, blondie, Ramones, Bob Dylan, and Simon & Garfunkel – everyone brought back to life, where the magic first happened.
Think that Bob Dylan walking on the same cold Greenwich Village sidewalk in 1963, or Ramones posing outside this fiery wall of the village in 1976, all perfectly adapted as they are today.
But his collection does not stop here. He also has iconic images of the infamous Big, Bruce Springsteen, doors, Cyndi Laper, Madonna, Taylor Swift and more.
What excites BIRNBAUM most is the new Yorkers reconnection with the invisible soundtrack of their daily lives.
“Crazy is crazy as we walk the streets and cross the past things … so many of us walk nearby, where Stevie Nicks once shaken or where she once stood Harry … and you don’t even notice.”
Husle with nostalgia of BIRNBAUM enters our obsession with “then and now” culture “and that classic NYC pride to keep in the past-especially the golden ages of music that helped determine the identity of the city.
His food – he counts Chris Stein to Blondie, destroying Billy Corgan and Sza to pumpkins as fans – is a living museum of rock ‘n’ history, proving that as the skyscrapers sprout and the Morph neighborhoods, the spirit of NYC still continues – if you know.
But do not mistake this for a quick and after a hurry. BIRNBAUM calls itself “historical music” and makes it its final advantage to honor and credit the original photographer of each album.
He has spent years following the exact places of legendary photos, collecting data together from old interviews, concert tour dates and group itineraries and even cleaning Google maps for hours.
“I challenge myself and try to find photos that would simply be difficult to do,” he said.
He even studies the English of the original photographer and often finds himself being printed, contouring or ying on the ground to nail the shot.
Birnbaum’s journey began with personal albums of personal memories and photographs from his youth-but soon evolved into a full-blog passion project after the September 11 seismic change.
“There was a cover of The Village Voice,” he recalls, “where an artist photographer held a photo of the World Trade Center shortly after the attacks. This artistically inspired me.”
What began as a quiet personal archive, expelled in a vibrant chronicle of pop culture and musical history, all anchored on the streets of New York.
To detect these places, Birdbaum sinks deep – and sometimes, a small detail can be key.
“When I was looking for the original location for the shooting of the largest Hits album by Simon & Garfunkel, I noticed Paul Simon was holding something that was closed like an egg -shaped container for L’Eggs Pantyhose from the 1980s,” Birnbaum recalled. “But it turned out to be my biggest key to finding where Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel stayed in the picture.”
He said walking next to an upper birth park Side “stirred my memory”.
“He was carrying part of a fence on the 7th Eastern Street 94,” he said. “I was able to track the location, which I never thought would still be around. There was not much to pass, but it was that small part and detail.”
But it is often a mixture of intuition and perseverance, plus recognition and beloved vast NYC neighborhoods. “You have to be crazy at this time,” he laughed. “New York has been harsh.”
The city’s rapid transformation – from low equality to chinatown to new wonderful development – forms a bitter background in its work. Eachdo photographer catches a frozen moment in time, but many of those moments are fading while construction disappears or repurposed.
“As much as I love New York, it really has changed a lot in the last five, 10 years,” he said.
His photos often take his iPhone or DSLR camera, serve as time machines, revealing the invisibility of the city’s concrete and steel.
For Birnbaum, this is the true joy of his work.
“I consider MyELF a music historian about the pictures,” he said, stressing that he is proud to preserve NYC’s rich musical heritage – a picture, a street corner at a time.
Also a reminder that no matter how much New York changes, his soul never fades.
“I want people to look up and say,” Hey, I’m staying where the legends of music once stayed, “he said.” That connection, that story, is so important. “
5 NYC location for legendary albums
- LED Zeppelin: “Physical Graphs”, (1975), 96 St. Marks Place, New York, NY, 10003
- Bob Dylan: “The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan”, (1963), Middle of Jones Street, 50 meters from West Fourth Street, New York, NY, 10014
- Ramones“Rocket to Russia”, (1977), Back Alley off First Street after John Varvatos (Former CBGB), 315 Bowery, New York, NY 10003
- Neil Young“After the Golden Rush”, (1970), corner northwest of Sullivan and West Street Street, New York, NY, 10012
- Simon & Garfunkel: “Bigger Hits” (1972), 7 E. 94th St., New York, NY, 10128
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