© Anne Cohen
On a bright, crisp morning in February, Frank Jump is zooming around the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn, on a bright yellow Vespa, dodging death.
Jump has spent much of the last 15 years preserving what he can of a disappearing vestige of New York City’s past. He scours the city finding and photographing old advertisements, hand-painted decades ago on the sides of buildings, and now fading away.
It’s a race against time—a race he knows all too personally. Jump has been living with HIV since 1986. It was his diagnosis at the age of 26 that prompted him to spend $80,000 of available credit on things he had always wanted, including the Minolta X-700 SLR camera that has been his constant companion on his long urban archaeological journey. “I was documenting things that never expected to live so long, and I had never expected to live so long,” he said. – Anne Cohen, Starring NY – CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
Gloria Steinem on “Nostalgia”
“Nostalgia is a form of obstructionism.”
September 15, 2006 Friday
Bill Maher’s HBO Real Time
episode 82
Premiering September 15, 2006
Guests: Michael McKean, Clark Kent Ervin, Gloria Steinem, Pat Buchanan and Christiane Amanpour
Anne Cohen photographing the monument of the Friel Family burial plot © Frank H. Jump
