What follows are four very intense views made along the Bowery and Delancey Street. It will be interesting to see how these come out in 4×5. The Bowery and Spring Street Dwyane Wade poster on the Bowery Delancey Street Essex and Delancey Street, Blue Condominium, Bernard Tschumi, architect

The Bowery Walking down the Bowery one comes across all kinds of stuff displayed on the streets. Between Houston and Delancey it’s the restaurant supply business with stainless steel cooking equipment being cleaned on the sidewalk, bulky pizza ovens and refrigerator units hoisted by forklifts on and off trucks. Chairs and bar stools are stacked […]

The New Museum under construction on the Bowery Back in New York after a less than smooth re-entry. I forgot my keys and cell phone, and by a miracle was able to get my assistant Chris to meet me at my apartment with his set of extra keys. The weather has been beautiful since arriving, […]

Our apartment in Amsterdam There are a number of things I will miss leaving Amsterdam, but none more than this apartment in the building called the Silodam, which was designed by the Dutch architects MVRDV. It sits on an earthen pier, also called the Silodam, projecting out into the Amsterdam harbor. Double height office/studio Pictures […]

The Ij (Amsterdam harbor) at sunrise Robert Altman, the filmmaker died today. Ever since I began seriously pursuing photography I’ve been greatly influenced by movies–perhaps just as much as by still photography–and Altman is one of the American directors I’ve most admired. I can’t remember what movie of his I saw first. It could have […]

If all goes according to plan we will be leaving the Netherlands in a month and a half. Since 1993 I have been flying back and forth between Amsterdam and New York, all the while trying to maintain both a fine art and professional architectural photography career. It has not been easy. Amsterdam (4×5 film) […]

Trinity Church Yard, 1981 (4×5 film) I’m in Amsterdam, but my thoughts these days are across the Atlantic. On January 25, 1981, 52 Americans who had been held hostage in Iran for 444 days returned to the United States. New York City Mayor Edward Koch invited them all to a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, offering […]

Berlin, 1989 (4×5 film) I read this morning in the New York Times that former East German spymaster Markus Wolf died yesterday, 17 years to the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Wolf epitomized the romantic image of the Cold War spy, especially as portrayed in John Le Carré’s novels. While the Cold […]

Brooklyn Bridge, 1983 (4×5 film) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers […]

Pulling down statue of King George III, New York City, July 9, 1776 I posted this on the 4th of July earlier this year. Here it is again. The following song is loosely based on the Declaration of Indpendence. Lines taken or adapted from the original text are highlighted. The recording was done straight to […]

Barentszplein near our apartment It’s been gloomy here the past few days, and despite finally shaking my jetlag I remain listless and unmotivated. I walked my son to school this morning, and I passed the store window above. Mmm… Nah. I just have to make it through to Wednesday when, hopefully, my home country will […]

The Ij Flew back to Amsterdam after a productive two and half weeks in New York. The apartment here, the view–unfortunately the Netherlands has not offered much work or spiritual sustenance for me–and soon we may be moving to New York full time. Since I’ve been back the weather has been tempestuous with wind, rain, […]