WTC image by Vincenzo Aiosa, macro iPhone shots by Frank Jump © Frank H. Jump
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Hotel Bonta-Narragansett – UWS – NYC
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
The Hotel Narragansett opened ca. 1902 at this location on Broadway between 93rd and 94th Streets. 1913-14 advertisements in the New York Herald referred to the Hotel as the Bonta-Narragansett (Arthur Knox Bonta, 1861?-1919, proprietor): “Handsomely Furnished Suites of One or More Rooms, with Bath.” – Walter Grutchfield
Arthur Knox Bonta – 8 AUG 1860 – 25 DEC 1919 – Three Systems
Fall River Line Journal, Volumes 34-35 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Google Books
NYC Screening of Diego Luna’s ‘Chavez’ – March 17, 2014
Jump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr & Vincenzo Aiosa © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Rosario Dawson @ CHAVEZ screening – plays farm worker activist Dolores Huerta © Frank H. Jump
UFW President Arturo Rodriguez & RFK, Jr. © Frank H. Jump
Isabel Celeste Dawson © Frank H. Jump
Gregory & Clay Dawson © Frank H. Jump
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. © Frank H. Jump
UFW Pres. Arturo Rodriguez, Bronx Boro President Ruben Diaz, Jr, RFK, Jr, Rosario Dawson, ? , Paul F. Chavez- President Cesar Chavez Foundation © Frank H. Jump
Coca-Cola and Mecca Smokes Pentimento – Bleecker & Carmine Streets, NYC – 1997
Circa 1905 – From the Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump
In explaining a layered fading ad, I’ve always used the term pentimento, a painterly term that describes evidence of a previous work on a canvas seen through an existing upper layer. Viewing these works under varied wavelengths of light, like ultraviolet, infrared and even X-ray scanning, can aid scientists in deciphering both palimpsests and pentimenti. The use of the word pentimento in “street and photography” has also been cited on the Internet as a term “used in a modern sense to describe the appearance of the sides of buildings with painted advertising.” Often when newer ads are painted over older ads, “the paint wears away to reveal the older layers.” Examples of this can be seen in the work I did in the Netherlands in 1998 while photographing fading ads in Amsterdam¹. – From the Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump
Ideal Hosiery Revisited – LES, NYC – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah
© Iman R. Abdulfattah
Previously posted on FAB:
- David Drake – Featured Fade – July 14, 2013
- November 17, 2007 – You can see considerable weathering since then.
