WE'RE NOW BRINGING YOU EVEN MORE PARK SLOPE PHOTOS FOR YOUR iPHONE

Remember a while back when we told you about these great iPhone lock screens made from photos taken around Park Slope by fab local photographer SPENCER RITENOUR? He's added to his collection and, like last time, FiPS readers can download them for free! All you have to do is click HERE and enter the password 'fipslovesyou'.

We'll be dropping new, free downloads every few weeks, so make sure to check back for more! And if you want to load up on more of Spencer's iPhone screens for only $3/pop, click on over HERE for a larger selection.

Here are my top 5 favorite NYC Photos from the recent department of archives launch!

 

If you’re a history buff with a specific fondness for New York City history like myself, then I'm sure you've already heard that the Department of Archives launched a massive digital collection of nearly 900,000 photographs of the city that span over the course of 150 years. Apparently all 8 million of us jumped for collective joy and made a beeline for the website, because it immediately went under for maintenance seconds after being launched due to overwhelming traffic. I am happy to report that as of now, the site is up running, so you should definitely check it out. 

Last Tuesday, Time Out New York narrowed down what they thought were the 50 best photos of NYC from 1849 to 2012. I've narrowed that down even further to my top five favorites:

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Photog Captures Gentrification of Park Slope

Erica McDonald / From The Dark Light of This Nothing

It’s no secret that the cultural landscape of Park Slope has changed drastically in the past 10 years. It’s basically impossible to go anywhere without hearing someone long for the good old days. Of course, none of us can seem to agree on when the good old days were, but this is more indicative of a New York mindset in which we’re all nostalgic for a time when we didn’t even live here (seriously, I’ve romanticized the 1970s and ‘80s in New York so much that I can’t see a movie about that time period without feeling getting an empty feeling in my stomach.)

Photographer and Park Slope resident Erica McDonald, who was recently featured in the New York Times, is documenting the changes in our hood with images. When she moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn six years ago, her first instinct was to begin shooting. She wanted to capture part of the neighborhood’s essence before it vanished.

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Cool Brooklyn Artist Alert: Eric Medsker

Eric Medsker is a photographer who lives in Prospect Heights. When he's not running around working on badass assignments, he's biking around Brooklyn on a sick bike whose name I do not know (but it's bright orange, and I dig it). I recently sat down emailed back and forth with Eric to chat about his shooting habits, a new book and his own Fucked in Park Slope moment (hint: it's eerily similar to one that FiPS writer and snack guru Parowpyro recently wrote about).

FiPS: Can you remember the specific moment when you discovered your passion for photography?

EM: I was young and frustrated with getting my hands to do what was in my head, probably around the age of fifteen or so.  My father had an old nikkormat laying around so I persuaded him to drive us to Philly to pick up some black and white film.  He let me run around the city shooting whatever I wanted that afternoon, and I think that was when the "world" kind of wedged it's foot into my mind.  From then on all I wanted was to get out of my hometown, which happened three years later when I moved to NYC.

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