Williamsburg, Brooklyn From the Williamsburg Bridge. Williamsburg, Brooklyn Typical Williamsburg scene.

Home Delivery outside of MoMA (digital)The MoMA exhibition Home Delivery, Fabricating the Modern Dwelling continues outside on the asphalt vacant lot next door. This lot is the site of a proposed 75 floor tower designed by Jean Nouvel which the local community board rejected as out-of-scale with the neighborhood. The neighborhood being Midtown Manhattan, the […]

The Dali exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (digital)Continuing my visit to MoMA. I find it increasingly difficult to deal with the crowds of people in the museum, and though the building’s design has been generally hailed, I find it less comfortable than any of the museum’s previous incarnations. The circulation area where the […]

Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher at MoMA (digital) I went to the Museum of Modern Art yesterday to see Home Delivery, the exhibit on pre-fabricated housing, but along the way, cruised through the photography galleries. I was dismayed to see yet another major Bernd and Hilla Becher exhibition, at least at first. Don’t misunderstand, […]

Wave Hill greenhouse Just a summer interlude. A visit to Wave Hill, an estate turned into public garden and cultural center. A showery day, we ducked in to the greenhouse to avoid some raindrops. Wave Hill greenhouse

Fly’s Eye Dome by Buckminster Fuller (digital) New York has much great public sculpture of the traditional kind–generals on horseback and solitary figures standing proudly against the sky or beneath a canopy of trees. But much less of the modern kind. At least not permanently installed. What we have instead–and it’s probably a good thing–are […]

(Rose/Fausty)After working on the new incarnation of the Lower East Side project for a number of years–not as intensively as I’d like, but gradually building up a sizable body of work–I decided to put it all together in book form using Blurb, the online DIY book publisher. As I began the process, downloading the software, […]

Houston and Bowery (4×5 film) A 4×5 variation of an earlier digital shot. This one with Hummer.

Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums, 1967 (CW photo)I am fourth from the left in the front next to George Carroll the corps leader. On Friday and Saturday I traveled with my family to Williamsburg, Virginia for the 50th anniversary of the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums. I was a member from 1964 to 1972. The […]

Abandoned gas station near Chincoteague, Virginia (digital) It’s a six hour drive down here from New York along the New Jersey Turnpike, and then Route 13 through Delaware and Maryland. Much of the landscape along 13 has been ruined by an excess of strip malls, fast foods, and gas stations. One wonders where this is […]

From our hotel balcony • Chincoteague, Virginia (digital) Headed south for a week’s vacation. Chincoteague, Virginia. A scruffy fishing village adjacent to Assateague Island with its beach and wild ponies.

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.