Christopher Thomas

This photograph is from Christopher Thomas' series 'new york sleeps'. It is a picture of a ice cream parlor in Ridgewood, Queens. The website says its Brooklyn, but the website is wrong. I live two blocks from that parlor, and it is most certainly Queens. I like the picture, but it shows a nice contrast between the past and the present of the parlor. You can see how the ice cream parlor used to look before it closed or was bought out, but there is a Carvel sign on top. The picture pokes fun at corporate stores buying out smaller stores and then just adding a little sign to prove it. The picture itself is very dramatic because of the use of lines and strong angles. The lines of the road and power lines separate the picture into neat sections which make it easy to see what the picture is about, the ice cream parlor. The sharp angle of the parlor makes it pop out of the picture make it even more obvious as to what the picture is about. I also walk by that building often, so its cool to see in the series, I've actually bought an ice cream cake from there before.