NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A very busy day as I prepare to go to Mustique tomorrow.  I caught  this view of Citicorp with my Leica on my way to a lunch date.
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph.
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Tuesday June 1, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – This from the very early evening on Park Avenue. Â The sculpture is newly-installed. Â I don’t have any information on it but I’ll keep looking and revise this post accordingly. Â Of course the background is Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, one of the icons that I stalk. Â The perspective is from the front door of the Racquet and Tennis Club.
Shot with a Hasselblad H3D 39 and an HC 100 lens. Three exposures stitched. This produces a very large file.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back in New York. While walking back from the west side (where I had left my car for service) a came across Carnegie Hall in dappled light. This is a side-on view from Sixth Avenue. From the Wikipedia entry on Carnegie Hall:
“Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most famous venues in the United States for classical music and popular music, renowned for its beauty, history and acoustics. . . . Carnegie Hall is one of the last large buildings in New York built entirely of masonry, without a steel frame; however, when several flights of studio spaces were added to the building near the turn of the 20th century, a steel framework was erected around segments of the building. . . . A venerable story has become part of the folklore of the hall: A New Yorker (or in some versions Arthur Rubinstein) is approached in the street near Carnegie Hall, and asked, “Pardon me sir, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” He replies, “Practice, practice, practice.””
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph. Three images stitched.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Late afternoon on East 56th Street – a reflection of the AT&T building off of the facade of the Trump Tower. Â Shot with my Leica M9 (it found its way back to me) and a 24mm Summilux.
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Thursday May 13, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Fabulous late afternoon light in midtown, with light reflected from buildings adding nuance. Â I’m shooting with my backup Leica, and M8.2, because I left my M9 at Gary and Diana’s the previous evening (symptomatic of wine consumption). Â I had a number of good images to choose among. Â This is Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Seagram building – part of my effort to do a new take on iconic structures. Â I have an ongoing project on the Seagram building and the plaza formed by it and the Racquet and Tennis Club (McKim Mead and White) and Lever House to the northwest (the “Hello Kitty’s” come from there). Â Image taken with my M8.2 and a 90mm lens – three images stitched in Photoshop.
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Tuesday May 11, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – My meetings are at Park Avenue and 53rd Street so I managed to commune with my old friend Hello Kitty for a few minutes.  You will remember from previous posts that  Hello Kitty is Tom Sach’s statue in the sculpture garden at Lever House.  See  March 19 blog entry and April 20 blog entry.  There may be enough going on at Lever House to make a project out of it.
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Thursday April 29, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Once again I’m stalking the Chrysler Building. Â This time from behind the UN Secretariat Building, in color, shooting with medium format.
