Astoria, Queens The last group of buildings I needed to look at was at the end of the subway line in Astoria. Now everything to be revisited with the view camera. Astoria, Queens

First Avenue, East Village A little bit of Amsterdam in New York. Midtown One more day of scouting buildings, then do it all over again with the view camera.

East 40th and Park Avenue East 40th and Park Avenue Scouting more buildings around Midtown.

Saturday and Sunday evenings I got out with the view camera on the Lower East Side. I worked into dark on Saturday taking a picture of the Blue Condo above the Essex Market against a bluish sky with a rising moon. On Ludlow I photographed a tenement building with a ground floor bar opened on […]

West 32nd StreetClick here for larger rollover versionHaving finished shooting and printing the Civil War monuments project, I am now back to the 39 buildings I was photographing a few weeks ago. Actually, the 39 are done, but I’ve been given 20 more to do. So, I am all over town scouting ahead of bringing […]

Civil War test prints Spent most of yesterday and today in the lab working on my Civil War monuments and statues. Made 15 prints, one panorama eight feet long. Basically, I bring in my color corrected and cleaned up digital files on a portable hard drive. I load those onto the computer at the lab, […]

New York Times Building (4×5 film) I know this is the third time I’ve posted a similar picture of the New York Times building by Renzo Piano, but this is the 4×5 version. How it was done–for those interested in such things. I had access to an office window in the McGraw-Hill building on 42nd […]

Times Square Mortgage crisis spreads…

I have finally finished shooting for the Civil War project, which I’ve written about previously. The last images were not of generals or memorials to the dead, but pictures of Abraham Lincoln and Henry Ward Beecher, two of the most important people in American history. Henry Ward Beecher, Columbus Park, downtown Brooklynsculptor: John Quincy Adams […]

McGraw-Hill Building One of he great art deco buildings in New York, designed by Raymond Hood. The lobby has retro-modern fluorescent lighting fixtures. Not very pleasant light, but very cool in a Jetson’s sort of way. The building is reasonably maintained, but not in the manner of Rockefeller Center or other top Manhattan office towers. […]

Soldiers’ Lot I have been photographing Civil War monuments around Brooklyn and in Green-Wood Cemetery for an upcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library. On Saturday I focused on several areas of the cemetery with special attention to the field of Civil War gravestones at the feet of Our Drummer Boy, a small sculpture of […]

The New York Times Building and the Empire State Building I’ve been very busy the past few days finishing up photographing Civil War monuments around Brooklyn and in Green-Wood Cemetery. I’ll update things in a day or two. For the moment, here’s a new picture–same window vantage point as before–of the New York Times Building […]

Houston Street and 7th Avenue, summer in New York Went to see No End in Sight, a documentary about the Iraq war, at Film Forum on Houston Street. Most interesting to me is that Colin Powell’s deputy, Richard Armitage, is talking. Will Powell ever speak out and attempt to salvage his reputation? Or soldier on […]

Main Gate, Green-Wood Cemetery (Richard Upjohn, architect) Today, I continued working on a series of photographs of Civil War monuments in Brooklyn–specifically Green-Wood Cemetery. There are a number of memorials here of celebrated generals, but also many of the unsung who died on the battlefield. There are many other famous New Yorkers buried here as […]

Lafayette Street The summer sizzles. Apple has taken over the block on Lafayette between Great Jones and Bond Streets. The odd narrow lots go back a hundred years when New York’s first subway was cut through this dense neighborhood.

One Chase Manhattan Plaza I scouted a future photo shoot on a high floor of the Chase Manhattan Bank building (JPMorgan Chase), one of the first glass and steel buildings to go up in Lower Manhattan. The building, designed in large part by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM), was something of a knockoff […]

Rodman Gun and Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Continuing work on a series of photographs of Civil War monuments and statues I took the R train to the end of the line. This is Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a prosperous part of the city I’d never visited before. At the foot of 4th Avenue is […]

The Bowery Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died today, two of the great filmmakers of the modern era. While Bergman, perhaps, looms larger in the public consciousness, it was Antonioni who was most inspiring to me as a photographer. There was Blowup, of course, about a photographer (David Hemmings) who shoots fashion, but also […]