Viewing NYC has shared the photography and aerial videography of Humza Deas over the past few years dozens of times. He's one of our favorite local artists, so it's great that he is getting some mainstream recognition, like this recent video highlighting some of his aerial videos from New York Magazine.
Self-taught photographer Humza Deas has been experimenting with taking photos with a drone, letting us again see our familiar city in all-new ways.
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything in New York City in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube channel that is digitizing and releasing the vast archives of Sullivan's videos — watch as the artist documents a typical summer day walking through Central Park.
There was a free opera performance in Central Park that night and Eric Conrad called up Nelson to invite him along. Nelson joined Eric and Hapi Phace and recorded highlights from the evening. Video by Nelson Sullivan
This great vintage photograph from 1963 shows musician Bob Dylan and his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo hanging out in the West Village of Manhattan on a snowy winter day. It appears this photograph was captures as part of the same photoshoot for the Freewheelin' album cover:
