New York Marble Cemetery (digital) One of the oldest cemeteries in the city lies hidden within the block bounded by the Bowery, East 3rd, East 2nd, and Second Avenue. We walked by last Sunday, and the gate was open, so we went in. There are no traditional graves or headstones. Under the grass are vaults, […]

Historical Studies/Social Science Library • Wallace Harrison (digital) While photographing a new building at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, I walked around the campus at lunch time, and took snapshots of two architectural gems, one by Robert Geddes (see earlier post and the other by Wallace K. Harrison. Historical Studies/Social Science Library (digital) […]

Institute for Advanced Study • Princeton, New Jersey (digital) I’ve been down to Princeton a number of times to photograph a new building extension at the Institute for Advanced Study, a research center near Princeton University. It is, perhaps, best known for its former illustrious faculty member, Albert Einstein. Dining Hall • designed by Robert […]

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn (digital) Another drive-by photo from the car window.

Ground Zero Driving back from a shoot in Brooklyn I popped out of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and drove up the West Side Highway along the construction cranes in the pit of Ground Zero. The car I had rented had a sunroof, and I looked up and grabbed this shot through the glass.

The New York Public Library (digital) My visit to the New York Public Library to see Eminent Domain, a photography exhibition about New York City, started off well enough. Walking in to the building I noted that “flash photography” was not allowed, but was happy that I would be able to take pictures inside. I […]

Red Hook, Brooklyn Without comment.

Red Hook, New York I’m shooting some apartments for an architect in Red Hook, the waterfront neighborhood just below Carroll Gardens. It’s a pretty gritty environment, but fascinating–docks, factories, lofts, little houses, big housing projects, and coming soon. Ikea. It would be gentrified already, but it’s notoriously hard to get to. No subway.

Red Hook, New York There’s an article in the Guardian from a few days ago linking the increasing harassment of photographers to the general fear of terrorism. I think there’s some truth to that. The author also relates it to movie plots in which terrorists seem always to be casing the joint with a camera. […]

Wozocos • MVRDV • Amsterdam For those of you who saw the architecture edition of the New York Times magazine and who are looking for photographs of MVRDV buildings, here’s a good place to start. SilodamWozocosYpenburg houses

Robber Barons by Studio Job–corporate greed in bronze (digital) One of the primary purposes of this journal is to chart my course through the city–and elsewhere–and comment, where appropriate, on the things I see, neighborhoods I walk through, architecture I encounter, exhibits I visit. Sometimes I go out with my 4×5 view camera, and take […]

A telephone building in Tribeca (digital) Scattered around Manhattan, particularly lower Manhattan, there are a number of telephone skyscrapers, buildings that were built principally to hold switching equipment and the like. One especially unlovely blank walled monolith near the Brooklyn Bridge is likely to be transformed into a glass windowed office tower. Western Union building […]