Eldridge Street (4×5 film) Just getting around to scanning some earlier Lower East Side photographs including the view above of Eldridge Street in Chinatown. Allen Street (4×5 film) No more Polaroid and other digital issues There are several interrelated things that are of great concern to me these days all related to changing technology. The […]

Soho Photo gallery, Tribeca Last night I participated in an architectural photography panel discussion sponsored by the ASMP at Soho Photo on White Street, which is actually in Tribeca. There were four panelists: Paul Warchol, Albert Vecerka, Adrian Wilson, and myself. Paul is one of the most noted and successful architectural photographers in the field, […]

42nd Street and Fifth Avenue (4×5 film) My life is a constant yo-yoing between mundane assignments and obligations, and extraordinary moments and opportunities. One is tempted, at times, to complain about the drudgery of less interesting work, but as I’ve found over the years, the extraordinary moments often spring without warning from those flat interludes. […]

Regent University/Christian Broadcasting Network Continuing to photograph megachurches and other contemporary religious structures. One of the most influential such institutions is Pat Robertson’s 700 Club (Christian Broadcasting Network) and Regent Unversity located in Virginia Beach. Both the broadcasting operation and school are located on a campus just off of Interstate 64. The campus is comprised […]

Pierce’s Pitt Bar-B-Que, Williamsburg, VirginiaI began my short stay in Williamsburg with a meal at Pierce’s Pitt Bar-B-Que. Pierce’s has been around forever, and specializes in melt-in-the-mouth pork sandwiches. I had this: JC’S SPECIAL $7.25This Popular “Jumbo” sandwich – 5 oz. of our famous pulled pork bar-b-que in “Doc” Pierce’s Original Bar-B-Que Sauce, layered with […]

From the taxi window on he way to Penn Station Headed to Virginia for several days–began what I hope will be a new project, photographing megachurches and the landscapes around them. I decided to begin in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia because it is the home of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network (700 Club) […]

Wonder Wheel, Coney Island (4×5 film) The sublimely tawdry Astroland and Deno’s Wonder Wheel will, apparently, live for one more season. What happens next is uncertain. One thing for sure, three landmarked structures will remain–the Parachute Jump, the Cyclone roller coaster, and the Wonder Wheel. Rummaging through my archive I found the picture above. Had […]

Amster Yard/Instituto Cervantes (4×5 film)East 49th Street between Second and Third Avenues Been busy the last few days shooting for the Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish cultural institute, which occupies a group of small buildings that surround the Amster Yard. The Amster Yard is a rare thing in New York, a courtyard/garden tucked into the middle […]

Houston/Lafayette Street Sheridan Square/Seventh Avenue Looking up.

The New Museum Without comment.

The Bowery and Grand Street (4×5 film) The Bowery, which is the western boundary of the Lower East Side, has gotten a lot of attention since the recent opening of the New Museum. It’s the last frontier of lower Manhattan, already greatly transformed, though Chinatown continues to resist change. The Bowery and East Fifth Street […]

Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the MetropolitanLots of milling about and reading explanatory labels. I went to the Metropolitan Museum yesterday to check out two photography exhibits that have been up for a while. The most prominent of the two–at least in terms of publicity and location–is Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the […]

Strand Bookstore, 12th Street and Broadway The one and only.

Litchfield, Connecticut While on a family ski jaunt to the Berkshires we stopped in Litchfield, Connecticut for dinner, and I walked across the town green to photograph the church above. It was 9 degrees fahrenheit so I didn’t spend a lot of time on this. I’ve long been interested in beginning a new project with […]

Houston Street All over town there are posters for the movie Cloverfield depicting a ruined lower Manhattan. For those of living downtown (or anywhere?) the images are chilling reminders of what happened in 2001. Is making a movie like this shameless exploitation? Yes. Should one avoid seeing it? Yes.

Grand Central Terminal and the Chrysler Building Without comment.

East 1st Street/Bowery/Houston Street I’m working on a series of pictures of the Bowery taken over the past few years as an adjunct to my Lower East Side project. The picture above was taken during the demolition of the AvalonBay development site bounded by the East 1st Street, The Bowery, and Houston Street. The single […]

The Bowery Mission and New Museum Yesterday, the temperature soared into the 60s, so I took the opportunity to do more Lower East Side pictures. I left my apartment/office on Stanton Street and began walking down the Bowery stopping to do a photograph of the Bowery Mission adjacent to the New Museum. There are few […]