Snap! Click! A Peek into Snapshot: a Tenement Museum Photo Event

When taking a tour of the Tenement Museum, one of the first rules the educator will tell you is "no photography, please!".  On Wednesday, June 1, however, participants of our "Snapshot" event were allowed to take pictures of the interior of 97 Orchard Street, a very special opportunity.  Here are pictures taken by staff members during the event.



Visitors take pictures inside the Ruin apartment

 



Participant takes pictures in the Levine apartment

 

A peek into the home of the Rogarshevsky's

Tenement Museum Snaps

Stay tuned for a full recap of our Snapshot! event on Thursday... in the meantime, enjoy some photos from our talented group of photographers:

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Announcing the SNAPSHOT! Photo Contest Winner!

It was a photo finish! Congratulations to Amy Neiman, whose photograph is the Grand Prize winner of the SNAPSHOT! Photo Contest! Amy's photograph artfully depicts the kitchen in the recreated Gumpertz Family Apartment exhibit c.1878 on the second floor of 97 Orchard Street.



Thank you so much to all who voted! Amy will receive $25 to the Tenement Museum gift shop and her winning photo will be added to the museum’s permanent collection.

Well done, Amy, and a big congratulations to all of the finalists and entrants, whose photos you can view by visiting the Tenement Museum’s Flickr group.

-posted by Amita

Announcing the SNAPSHOT! Photo Contest finalists!

Thank you to all of the amazing photographers who joined us for SNAPSHOT! A Tenement Museum Photo Event to celebrate the launch of our new photo database. In case you missed it, on July 20, 2010, photo junkies and Tenement Museum fans were invited into 97 Orchard with their cameras to take photographs of the building's interior (something we normally don’t allow). We received a number of incredible submissions to the SNAPSHOT! Photo Contest, and you can see all of them by visiting the Tenement Museum’s Flickr group.

It was a difficult process, but we managed to select 11 finalists that we think capture the architecture of 97 Orchard and the tenement apartments inside. We hope you will help us pick a grand prize winner by checking out all of the finalists below (click on the thumbnails to view larger images) and voting, on the right, for your favorite!

Voting will end on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 4:30 pm and the winner will be announced here on Friday, August 6, 2010.

Congratulations to all of the contestants and finalists!

Finalist 1:
Unrestored apartment wall on the fourth floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Dominic Poon.


Finalist 2:
Front room of the recreated Moore Family Apartment exhibit c. 1869 on the fourth floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Kathleen L. Kent.


Finalist 3:
Sewing machine in the front room of the recreated Levine Family Apartment exhibit c. 1897. Photo by Sue Shea.


Finalist 4:
Kitchen of the recreated Levine Family Apartment exhibit c. 1897. on the third floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Shawn Hoke.


Finalist 5:
Kitchen of the recreated Rogarshevsky Family Apartment exhibit c.1915 on the third floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Andrea Gaffney.


Finalist 6:
Antique doll in the recreated Gumpertz Family Apartment exhibit c.1878 on the second floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Dominic Poon.


Finalist 7:
Kitchen in the recreated Gumpertz Family Apartment exhibit c.1878 on the second floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Amy Neiman.


Finalist 8:
Kitchen of the recreated Moore Family Apartment exhibit c. 1869 on the fourth floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Kathleen L. Kent.


Finalist 9:
Front room of the recreated Moore Family Apartment exhibit c. 1869 on the fourth floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Daniel Molina.


Finalist 10:
Kitchen of an unrestored apartment on the second floor of 97 Orchard Street. Photo by Andrea Gaffney.


Finalist 11:
Graffiti on the third floor hallway inside 97 Orchard Street Photo by Shawn Hoke.


-posted by Amita