Container List
| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 1 | "5 Pointz"
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes about 93 4 x 6 inch color photographs from the mural space in Long Island City, Queens, known as 5 Pointz. (The murals were painted over by the building's owner and developer in 2013.) |
2006-2013 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 2 | "Times Square"
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes an album with 171 4 x 6 inch color photographs of Times Square scenes in 2010. Includes night scenes of the Times Square signage and other lights. Includes tour buses and tourists (Holland soccer fans, zombie convention attendees in costume), signage (e.g., hotels, subway, restaurants, Broadway shows and theatres, adult entertainment venues, Police Department, McDonald's, Ripley's, Madame Tussaud's), buildings, crowds of people, costumed street performers/actors (e.g., Naked Cowboy, Naked Cowgirl, Elmo, tin man), police on duty, pedicabs, news crawls on the sides of buildings, street vendors, protests/demonstrations (e.g., anti-abortion, against meat-eating (PETA), pro-North Korea). Most scenes are from the summer; a few include snowy streets. |
2010 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 3 | "Misery of the Metropolis: Photographs of Beggars and Battered Souls on the Streets
of Manhattan"
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes 76 4 x 6 inch color photographs from September 2015 of street people sleeping on sidewalks and alcoves, with signs requesting help or cups for donations, and with bags or carts with their possessions. |
2015 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 4 | "Book Shops of Manhattan"
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes 97 4 x 6 inch color photographs of bookshops in early 2016: storefronts, signage, street sales, some interiors. Includes, among others, Argosy, Alabaster, Mysterious, Mast, Book-Off (interiors), Corner, Strand, Shakespeare, Ursus, Bauman, Quest, Left Bank, East Village, Dashwood, Mercer Street, St. Mark's, Book Cellar, La Casa Azul, Crawford Doyle, Logos, Posman, Westsider, Book Culture, McNally Jackson (interiors), 192 Books, Strand stalls in Central Park, Center for Fiction, Rizzoli (interiors), Three Lives, various Barnes & Noble (interiors). Includes a statement of Scott's purpose. |
2016 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 5 | "Bushwick Street Art"
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes 90 4 x 6 inch color photographs from April 2016 of street art (i.e., murals on buildings, fencing, and doorway grates). The photos were taken on various streets in Bushwick, Brooklyn, especially Troutman, St. Nicholas, Flushing, Morgan, and Wyckoff. Includes a statement of Scott's purpose. |
2016 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 6 | "East River Boat & Ship Traffic"
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes 69 4 x 6 inch color photographs of East River scenes from late 2016. Includes tugboats, Circle Line and other tour boats, barges, New York Water Taxi, fishing boats, and others. Includes scenes of buildings, bridges, highways, and the Pepsi Cola sign along the river. |
2016 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Album : 7 | "Manhattan 2020: Covid-19, George Floyd"
Scope and ContentsIncludes almost 200 color photographs taken in New York City during the major events of 2020: the impact of the coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic on the city, the racial/social justice protests spurred by the killing of George Floyd, and the presidential election campaign involving candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The album opens with a statement by Rob Scott with his impressions of the beginnings of the pandemic's impact in March-April 2020. There are also items of ephemera and news clippings. |
2020-2021 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Album : 8 | "New York City: 2021"
Scope and Contents100 6x4 inch color photographs of various scenes in New York: buildings, parks, statues, graffiti, signs/posters/advertisements, parks, and street life. |
2021 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Album : 9-13 | "Manhattan Graffiti Trucks" (5 albums)
Scope and Contents4 albums of 6x4 inch color photographs (326 photographs) of trucks on the streets of Manhattan, tagged with graffiti. |
2021 | |