SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE – We’re spending Christmas week in this ancient high dessert city in central Mexico. Â There are post card images in every direction. Â This is from an arts center out of the center of town.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We went to the opera Thursday evening: The Met’s riveting production oF Richard Stauss’s Elektra. Â Susan Bullock had her Met premier singing Elektra, Deborah Voigt broke new ground for herself as Chrysothemis, and Felicity Palmer did a sensational job as Klytemnestra. Â I went to Lincoln Center early to do my photo of the day – my one potentially good image was spoiled as a security guard got in the way. Â You evidently can’t shoot with a tripod in the Lincoln Center plaza – not even a very small one. Â I’ve substituted the same point of view and time of day from a few days earlier. Â I hope not to have to do this again.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A tough day for photographs: meetings all morning followed by a large lunch in a dark restaurant. Ugly, gray light outside. Late in the day I found myself uptown near Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gugenheim Museum. I have an ongoing project shooting iconic buildings as if one happens upon them at random – the objective is to try to capture the surprise of seeing them for the first time. The Gugeneheim is iconic but it’s hard to “happen upon” it – it’s cut off from Central Park across Fifth Avenue by a wall, and it’s hemmed in on the other three sides by larger buildings and the Manhattan grid. I ended up shooting details, and got this as it was getting dark. Not my best work.
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Monday November 9, 2009
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Annual gala for Words Without Boarders at the Czech consulate.
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Tuesday November 3, 2009
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Party for Patrizia Chen at New York University’s Casa Italiana launching Patrizia’s new book, It Takes Two.
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Monday November 2, 2009
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – The Corner Bookstore
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This is a daily photo blog. I’m posting one image each day from now until I run out of space on my server. The “each day” refers to when the photograph is taken. Uploads will happen whenever I have the time.
On October 16 I had a meeting in the Wall Street area. Afterwords I wandered in the rain over to One Chase Manhattan Plaza. Still an impressive urban space even though the bank is no longer an independent entity. There is a Jean Dubuffet sculpture called “Four Trees” – a half dozen tourists were hanging around it snapping with their iPhones.
Anyway, here’s my first post:
