Kaufman’s Brooklyn: 12 photos of ‘Odd ads and intriguing images’
My father, Irving Kaufman (1910 – 1982), was a professional photographer who started in Brooklyn in the mid 1930s working for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He captured thousands of images of Brooklyn through the 1950s. I have recently digitized a great many of them. My father’s profile can be found here.
This week’s theme:
This week’s posts break new ground. For 23 weeks and over 500 photos I’ve shown almost nothing commercial. That’s because I’m connecting my father’s work back to its roots – Brooklyn, the Eagle, public services, nonprofit institutions and developing his talent. It’s also because I’ve come to learn that his most artistic and interesting work was from these early Brooklyn years.
But most of his career was in Manhattan as a commercial photographer. In that work he showed plenty of the same quality, wit and beauty, but in a much different setting. The focus was not streets, people, celebrities, buildings, bridges. The work was mostly indoors with products and set scenes designed to tell a story or show something in an interesting way.