{"id":2697,"date":"2011-10-02T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/accidental_hist\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:50:40","slug":"accidental_hist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/accidental_hist\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Historical Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the features<\/strong> I&#8217;m most excited about in the upcoming New York-themed issue of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\">Pink Mince<\/a><\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/2011\/09\/pink-mince-8.html\">order your copy now!<\/a>) is a selection of photos of men in the West Village in the late 70s by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaycenter.org\/community\/archive\/collection\/026\">Leonard Fink<\/a>, whose work is archived at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaycenter.org\">LGBT Community Center<\/a> on West 13th Street. I chose a mix of images that felt like they really captured some magical moments of a lost time in the neighborhood, but I may have curated the selection even better than I realized.<\/p>\n<p>I was showing my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/boycrazyboy.tumblr.com\">Sina<\/a> a preview of the issue, and he immediately caught something in an image from 1978 that I missed. Look at this detail:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/mapplethorpe_closeup.jpg\" alt=\"Mapplethorpe?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapplethorpe.org\">Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a>, isn\u2019t it? Suddenly, my photo feature of a lost New York seems that much more poignant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features I&#8217;m most excited about in the upcoming New York-themed issue of Pink Mince (order your copy now!) is a selection of photos of men in the West Village in the late 70s by Leonard Fink, whose work is archived at the LGBT Community Center on West 13th Street. I chose a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/02\/accidental_hist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accidental Historical Significance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77194,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/77194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}