PEARL GABEL

The International Debutante Ball has remained largely the same in its 58-year history, but the debutantes themselves have changed.

In this week’s photos from around New York, police investigate a shooting in midtown, former New York City mayor Ed Koch leaves hospital and benefits are held for Mount Sinai Hospital and the Food Bank for New York City.

Photographers documented the damage, power outages, and tragedy caused by Hurricane Sandy in the New York region.

In this week’s photos from around New York, a makeshift memorial is set up after the murder of two children in the Upper West Side, firefighters respond to a fire in Brooklyn and a camel prepares to perform at Radio City Music Hall.

In this week’s photos from around New York, a police officer is shot, a man offers free relationship advice and Times Square is packed with science buffs.

In this week's photos from around New York, a community mourns the loss of two siblings in the Bronx, New Yorkers enjoy a cookout at Governor's Island and a Louis Vuitton store is covered in artist Yayoi Kusama's polka dots.

At Home with David Alan Harvey workshop students and staff with today’s guest,
photographer James Estrin (in red) creator of the NYTimes LENS blog.

THIS SATURDAY
Burn.02 Launch Party with Special Guest Magnum Photographer Bruce Davidson

Saturday, 8 October
Doors locked at 9pm sharp for respectful showing of work from Bruce Davidson and our workshop students…
get here early or you won’t be let in until the show is over.
Fiesta to follow, please bring your preferred beverage…
475 Kent Avenue #607 –  Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Featuring the work of:
DANNY ARENAS, AMY BOONE, JACOB BLICKENSTAFF, BEAR CIERI, PEARL GABEL, ARIF IQBALL, ROBERT JOHNSON, ALLAN KASSIN, JONNY LINDROS, RICHARD MAN, LAURA MONTANARI, NICK RILEY

There is lots going on this weekend in Burnland. For those of you in the New York area, please come and see work from Bruce Davidson and my class from last week as per described above.

If you are closer to San Antonio, Texas, then check out the burn.ed GARDEN at the SMARTart Project Space. The brainchild of Burn Curator-on-the-Texas scene, Panos Skoulidas and mostly Kim. Many Burn commentators have submitted prints to this totally renegade and totally endorsed exhibition from our Burn family…yeah, family sounds corny I guess, but I would not know how else to describe. Panos has worked very hard to assemble prints from many of our readers here.

I want to thank Jim Estrin (in red shirt above), MaryAnne Golon, Steve Fine, Chris Bradley, David Griffin, Alice Gabriner, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Michael Loyd Young, Kerry Payne, Franco Pagetti, Peter Turnley, Christopher Anderson, Bruce Gilden, and Bruce Davidson…all who came to my class to present to my 12 students and a few assembled guests. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

This gathering is also a celebration and New York official launch of Burn.02. Come and check it out. Yes, purchase one for the good guys. Check us out carefully, and you will see we are simply trying to do the right thing. To help get something going in our biz for the next generation. Not mine. I am fine. This is for you. Pay back/pay forward. Do it when the time comes.