NDSM Shipyard Over the years I’ve made many photographs of Amsterdam, but few of them show the beautiful historic center of the city. On the one hand, the old center of Amsterdam is the focus of the city still thick with shops, small businesses and museums, along with tourists. On the other hand, it is […]

Sunny, but windy, in Amsterdam Left NY with unfinished business on the ground. Got bumped up to business class, which made the trip less arduous, but it looks like I’m heading back to New York for a very short stay to take care of things. Cashing in some frequent flyer miles to make the trip. […]

Had dinner on Wednesday with my friends Art Presson and Eve Kessler at Lucien, a quaint French restaurant on 1st Avenue near Houston. Excellent food. I know Art and Eve from the International Center of Photography where I worked part time while a student at Cooper Union and for a number of years after graduating. […]

Yesterday, I had lunch with Cervin Robinson at his apartment on the Upper West Side. It’s in a columned pre-war building just off Broadway, rambling and–well–messy. Conversation usually takes place in the kitchen. We talked about Cervin’s proposal to do a book on the “photography of place.” Cervin is an architectural photographer who, like Richard […]

On my way to the lab today I stopped at the Museum of Modern Art and saw the John Szarkowski show. Szarkowski is the former curator of the MoMA’s photography department, and a photographer as well. During his 29 years at the museum, he brought photography fully into the mainstream of modern art. His embrace […]

Friday, I photographed an office space in Soho. The shoot went deep into the night–about 3am. The office was a product branding company called Anthem. It was designed by Charles Thanhauser (TEK Architects), who I’ve worked with for many years. The space was relatively small, but there was losts of design to work with. Anthem […]

Apparently a sidewalk shed is going up around St. Brigid’s church on Avenue B. Is demolition imminent? See earlier post: Amsterdam/New York Yesterday, I scouted an interior in the AT&T building on lower Sixth Avenue, an art deco behemoth, monolithic, but well-detailed. I am most fond of the antennas on the roof, a new feature […]

Delancey Street I spent about 4 hours on the street today photographing the Lower East Side. In 1980 I worked in collaboration with Ed Fausty–he and I took the pictures together using a view camera–but this time around I am on my own. I first walked to Rivington Street to see the demolition of the […]

Snow showers in Amsterdam I left amsterdam for New York on Sunday. Wintry weather, passing snow showers, chilly damp, gave way to early Spring in New York. I took a taxi to my apartment, grabbed my guitar, and headed to the 11th Street Bar in the East Village for a benefit to help save St. […]