Head underground (or to an elevated track!) and snap a subway picture, then submit it here. Legendary photographer Bruce Davidson will take a look at your submissions, and we'll feature some of our favorites online and on-air. Deadline for submission is 11:59pm on Sunday, October 16th. Please don't submit more than 3 photographs!
Anna Delany
'Freedom Tunnel'.
Home to many people sleeping rough in New York City.
Alex Robleto
As a native New Yorker, I have traveled the streets and subway all my life. The city can be chaotic but at certain times in the wee hours there is a certain peace walking the desolate streets.
Barrie Karp
Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/2/2011 (31). Solitary outpost late rainy Sunday pre-dusk Brooklyn Museum station.
Barrie Karp
Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/9/2011 (61). She studies. Trains can be a great place to read. But noise pollution has been increasingly intolerable (other people's earphones, countless simultaneous conversations, often overlaid with loud announcements or other unwanted sound disturbances of reading peace). And unwanted views of screens, flashes, LEDs and beeping games. Looks like she lucked out though. She was engrossed.
Barrie Karp
Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/9/2011 (26). Day after day he's fixed there, looking cheerful amidst a terrible chaos of color bits assembled as if for an eye-dazzling sculpture -- and a man in motion looks transparent as he's about to pass by.
Barrie Karp
Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/0/2011 (11-2). It was West 66th Street, the doors opened and I hoped for a shot of one of the wonderful Nancy Spero mosaics, but this goddess came through the doorway instead. Somehow I imagined it a fitting 21st century connection.
Barrie Karp
Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/0/2011, (8-2). Subway structures can be playground for lively children. This beautiful little girl whirled around the pole. She wore metalicized magenta shoes (caught in a subsequent photo). This is a split second before her parents descended for protection, as she had run away from where they were sitting nearby with a baby carriage. Family, parents and 2 kids, returning home from a Sunday outing.
Barrie Karp
Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/9/2011 (5-2). This lovely woman's blue accents brought a seawater sensitivity & silverized subway color harmony to our short anonymous time un-together across the aisle -- and the soft blanched seaweed shirt of the man standing nearby blended with the train's silver metal. Everyone remained new york concentrated within their own world. The photographer's red coat, barely noticeable, extends to the red ground beyond glass doorpanes. Breasts, arms, singular spaces. Who knows who is really concentrating and lost in a world, or self-consciously watchful? Though she was meticulously, deliberately accented in blue in many lovely ways, my catching her contrasts in being by chance of a moment, and my appreciation of her luscious blues remains uncommunicated.
Steve Harmon
The Mechanical parts of the Subway are great looking and work so well.
Steve Harmon
Wired up; a sleeper and someone in personal pain. The subway presents it all at the same time!
Steve Harmon
Often the physical structure of the subway creates little frames or prosceniums in which we view short plays - often lasting but seconds. I wonder what is he/she thinking;what are they talking about, but I will never know.
Marco Catini
May 8, 2011;
Resting the skateboard for a while.
Marco Catini
May 8, 2011;
The subway as an element of urban landscape.
Marco Catini
May 8, 2011;
A pay phone and the motion blur of a departing train.
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