{"id":1853,"date":"2011-04-20T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/04\/post_2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:29:03","slug":"post_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/04\/post_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Old Photos Never Die . . . Old Diners Fade Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Riss diner was on 8th Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets in Manhattan. It’s no longer there. In its place is a Murray’s Bagels<\/a> shop. Much less interesting. This photo illustrated the front cover of Philip Corner’s The Identical Lunch<\/em><\/a>, in 1973.
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I published the book, which Graham Macintosh designed and printed, in a beautiful limited edition of 1,000 paperbound, letterpress copies under the Nova Broadcast imprint. I also took the photo of the diner, which Graham mistakenly attributed to Alison Knowles.<\/p>\n

I didn’t bother to correct the error at the time because the book was already printed. But now that there’s been a spike in attention<\/a> to the identical lunch as a Fluxus performance piece, and lots<\/a> of<\/a> attendant<\/a> publicity<\/a> — as well as a message from Alison asking me if I would be interested in reprinting Philip’s book — I think it’s time to correct the record. (I’m a long-retired publisher and in no position to bring out a reprint. But someone else might.)<\/p>\n

Alison — whose Journal of the Identical Lunch<\/em><\/a> I also published — did take the picture of the tuna sandwich and a glass of buttermilk, as attributed, that appeared on the back cover of Philip’s book.
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The Riss diner was on 8th Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets in Manhattan. It’s no longer there. In its place is a Murray’s Bagels shop. Much less interesting. This photo illustrated the front cover of Philip Corner’s The Identical Lunch, in 1973. Click to enlarge I published the book, which Graham Macintosh designed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbvgEs-post_2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71021,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/71021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}