John Dalton - Photography

07/20/2025

01/31/2025

R.I.P. George Tice

He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.

09/14/2024

The truth is, the cameras we already own have more features than we’ll ever use and produce better image quality than most of us are ever likely to need.

08/05/2024

Rainbow over Manhattan from Maxwell Park, Hoboken

03/28/2023

New research charts the photographer’s many excursions across Manhattan in 1929.

02/08/2023

In 1975, the renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson received an invitation to travel from Paris to America for what would become one of his final photographic projects. His images would be used in “Assignment America,” a television show on the public-broadcasting station WNET. Choose any subject, anywhere, he was told. His choice? New Jersey. Cartier-Bresson felt that New Jersey’s anywhere-ness, its density and diversity, was “a kind of shortcut through America.” The photographer and his assistant visited suburban sprawl, horse country, pine barrens, swamps, seashore, beauty parlors, labs, nuclear facilities, jails, and mansions. After Cartier-Bresson returned to Paris, a WNET director cropped the photos to fit a TV screen—a practice the photographer viewed as sacrilege. The episode aired, but the project was effectively excluded from catalogues of the Cartier-Bresson’s work. View more of the photographer’s images of New Jersey in the ’70s, which have gone unseen for almost 50 years: http://nyer.cm/Q4n7ACK

08/31/2021

Simple photographs of familiar moments.

The photographer Deanna Dikeman’s parents always stood outside to send her off after a visit, waving or standing in the driveway while she got in her car and drove away. One day in 1991, she thought to photograph them in this pose, and for more than 20 years, she continued the practice—photographing her parents at the same moment, rolling down her car window and aiming her lens toward their home. See all of her images here: http://nyer.cm/MZR9ZFn

04/27/2021

This 120 Gigapixel Photo is the Largest of New York City Ever Taken.

120,000 pixels.

11/11/2020

Veterans Day Observance - Elysian Park, Hoboken, NJ 11/11/2020