Under I280 in San Francisco Arrived in San Francisco Wednesday evening. I’m here taking pictures for David Baker, an architect best known for residential projects that engage in complex visual dialogue with the existing urban fabric. This one is a particularly difficult site shoehorned in between railroad tracks and freeway flyovers. The picture above was […]

Clayton Patterson exhibition at Kinz, Tillou + Feigen gallery Recently I went to Clayton Patterson’s exhibit at Kinz, Tillou + Feigen gallery in Chelsea. Patterson has for years chronicled the street culture of the Lower East Side/East Village in film and still photographs. The LES is a neighborhood described more often in the past tense […]

Hudson River Park Architectural interior shoots three evenings in a row. Last night went eleven hours and was over at 2am. I am exhausted.

Self-portrait, Merrrill Lynch conference room, Jersey City Shooting architectural interiors. Last night JPMorgan Chase, tonight Merrill Lynch in Jersey City, tomorrow H&M New York office near Union Square Park.

Lower Manhattan from the promenade in Brooklyn Heights Another beautiful end of September day in New York. Bush and Iranian president Ahmadinejad in town at the same time along with dozens of other world leaders. My wife Renée was interviewed about her experiences in New York by a journalist from Vrij Nederland, a major Dutch […]

Enshrined Memories: Brooklyn and the Civil War at the Brooklyn Public Library The Civil War project I worked on this summer is now up at the Brooklyn Public Library on Grand Army Plaza adjacent to Prospect Park. It’s a show I have some mixed feelings about. I knew from the beginning when I was asked […]

Hudson River Park Beautiful Sunday in New York. A longer post tomorrow.

Sixth Avenue near 42nd Street I am still trudging around town taking pictures of various buildings. It’s a never ending assignment. The timing for the sunlight has to be right. There’s always a truck or some other obstruction in front of things. I’ve been to some locations 4 or 5 times without success.

Midtown, sculpture by Robert Indiana Pretty busy these days shooting buildings around the city. Here are a couple of random moments. Bryant Park

Fifth Avenue and 21st Street The view out the window while shooting an architectural interior in the Flatiron District.

UPDATED HERE Last weekend I attended the funeral of an aunt in Franklin, Virginia. With the passing of most of my close relatives in the area I don’t expect to be making too many trips down there in the future. My father’s side of the family comes from the area with its peanuts, cotton, and […]

Katz’s Deli, Ludlow and Houston Streets (4×5 film) One of the evening photographs from a couple of weeks ago–from the ongoing Lower East Side project. A saxophone player and a door opener trolling for change as the throngs blur by. 20×24 inch prints in the lab Brendan plays video games in the lab

I am back from a short family related trip to Virginia of which I may have some pictures later. Yesterday, I sat in doctor’s office waiting room with my father and sister as video of General Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, played on several overhead TV screens. Fish swam aimlessly in a tank. I drove […]

Stephen Shore exhibit at ICP Closing this week at ICP in New York is Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79. If you are in the city in the next few days, don’t pass up the chance. When I first began shooting color in 1976 Shore was well on the way to completing the […]

Cars on Dean Street.

Richard Pare’s photos at the Museum of Modern ArtViews of Lenin’s tomb in Red Square, Moscow Richard Pare’s photo documentation of early modernist architecture in Russia is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art and in the book The Lost Vanguard, Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-32. Pare is one of the finest architectural photographers […]

Back in Astoria yesterday to photograph a couple of buildings with the 4×5 view camera. After I finished, I walked around two long blocks snapping pictures with my Ricoh digital. Keep in mind that this is the end of the elevated N and W lines of the subway, but Manhattan is not more than 20 […]

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