White Rose Bar sign from the 4th floor window of 821 Sixth Avenue (ca. 1957-1964), by W. Eugene Smith, from The Jazz Loft Project, by Sam Stephenson.
In 1957, 38-year-old magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, most likely undergoing a creative midlife crisis, left his well-paying job at Life, his comfortable home, his wife and four children, and moved into a 4th-floor loft in a run-down 45-story building at 821 Sixth Avenue, between 38th and 39th streets, in the wholesale flower district of New York.
(Via Brain Pickings.)
