West Street opposite the meatpacking district Yesterday, I walked again with my view camera up to Chelsea to photograph the IAC building, the first Frank Gehry building completed in New York. It’s fun for me to do this kind of thing when there’s no client breathing down my neck, and I can take things as […]

Apartment I woke this morning, still lying in bed I called to my son Brendan to bring my camera, and took this picture.

The High Line under construction I walked up to Chelsea by way of the Meatpacking District (Gansevoort Market), the formerly gritty meat market inhabited by bloody-aproned butchers and meat cutters as well as transvestite prostitutes. The area is now the epicenter of New York cool. The beautiful people wobble about on the cobblestones, and edge […]

Hudson Street, Brendan and Renée Spring hits New York. Brunch with my wife and son. Planning to get out with the view camera over the next few days.

On Sunday I fetched the paper as usual, turned to the Metro section as usual, and was surprised to see a photograph of James Presson, the 16 year-old son of good friends of mine, along with two other students from Wilton High School who have created a play about Iraq told primarily through the voices […]

Times Square (4×5 film), late ’90s I’ve been reading Adam Gopnik’s most recent collection of essays, some previously published in the New Yorker, Through the Children’s Gate. After returning from two years in Paris, he rediscovers New York, especially as seen through his children’s eyes. In one essay he finds himself on school safety patrol […]

The former Leninplatz in East Berlin, 1990 (4×5 film) I saw The Lives of Others today sitting in a sparsely-filled midday showing at the Angelica on Houston Street. The movie, which recently won the best foreign language Oscar, is a deeply felt psychological thriller about life in the German Democratic Republic (DDR/East Germany) before the […]

Seagram Building and Alexander Calder Sculpture Aside from it’s architectural importance, the Seagram Building (designed by Mies van der Rohe), has personal significance to me. When I graduated from Cooper Union and began photographing the Lower East Side, the first prints I ever sold were to the Seagram collection. Phyllis Lambert of the Bronfman family, […]

Office reception overlooking Central Park (4×5 film) I’ve been busy this week with three photo shoots, all in Midtown, and the follow-up scanning and color correcting that I usually do myself. The photograph above was taken 45 floors up overlooking Central Park.

Houston Street between Sixth Avenue and MacDougalIt’s a losing proposition writing anything about Jeff Wall at this point. The juggernaut of critical approbation along with Wall’s own avalanche of supporting text is more than a puny photographer like me can withstand. I find myself standing on the corner of Houston and Sixth Avenue gazing up […]

Civil War Soldiers’ Monument, Green-Wood Cemetery I’ve been pretty busy this week doing architectural shoots, but today I went to the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to meet and talk with the organizers of an exhibition about the Civil War and New York. I may do a series of pictures for the exhibit. I did a […]