Berenice Abbott : NYC Newsstand 1935

Berenice Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 -- Photographer, "Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan."

Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938

Hundreds of black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) from her Changing New York Works Progress Administration/ Federal Art Project. The Library's collection holds about 80% of the project's 302 images; this presentation includes variant and discarded images, plus other work Abbott produced as a project employee.

Thousands of images from the New York Public Library are available by clicking here.

Sarkozy by Ricardo Bloch

Amphibious Andromeda, Ricardo Bloch's image and sound diary, features a storefront window on his life and work. The Paris-based artist and photographer also makes books portraying people's living spaces.

Free Hugs : Oddly Very Moving

The End of Store Front Windows

JFK on eBAY

Want it? Make me an offer!

Watts Riots, Los Angeles : 1 Aug 1965

Looted Storefronts From Watts Riots, LA. August 1, 1965. More View Images.

Burger King Baghdad No. 3 in the World

The Baghdad Burger King is now the third busiest in the world.

"WATERTOWN, Wis. - With America at war and in need of a few good men, Jon Schoenherr expected a warm reception when he walked into an Army recruiting office in this Midwestern farm community, intending to enlist. But a sergeant gave the 17-year-old some surprising news. "He told me I'd have to lose a little bit of weight,' said Schoenherr, who dropped 50 pounds to qualify. Besides terrorists, germ warfare and nuclear weapons, military officials increasingly worry about a different kind of threat - troops too fat to fight"

KFC Smashed After Riots in Karachi 2003

Interior of KFC restaurant is viewed through broken windows following a riot in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, August, 17, 2003. A mob of youths threw bricks at a KFC resturant and smashed glass windows at a Caltex station during protests following a funeral for a Shiite Muslim doctor gunned down the day before in Karachi. (AP/Photo Shakeel Adil )

Riots in Dublin 2006 : McDonalds

Lindsay Lohan Shopping

Lindsay Lohan shopping in LA: Oftentimes it's not what's on the racks in the store, but whose racks are in the store. Nothing sells the contents of a store better than someone buying its contents. The semiotics of fashion sales involves the following equation: Princess + mad search through store + a hundred maids in waiting + a thousand court photographers + credit cards + the desire to be where you're not + a stage upon which to be where you're not = Visibility (Sales). Paparazzi took this photo from just outside the store and offered it up on a hundred websites; the "browser" as Store Front Window.

Cafe de Flore Paris

Café de Flore, Paris. The so-called "Existentialist Cafe", where French existentialists – Jean-Paul Sarte, Simon de Beauvoir – used to meet and where Zhou Enlai, Leon Trotsky, and Ernest Hemingway frequented in the early 20th century when they were in Paris. More from this blogger here.

Joel-Peter Witkin

Fictional Store Fronts: Camera Store Window (2004) Joel-Peter Witkin