Bernd Becher has died at the age of 75. Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed the vestiges of the industrial landscape. They worked systematically in a way that aligned them with conceptual art, but they did it with a relentless, if not passionate, attention to the structures that interested them, both humble and extraordinary. They were […]

Gay Liberation Monument by George Segal, Christopher Park Seventh Avenue in Midtown

West 17th and Sixth Avenue I spend a great deal of time in the so-called Flatiron district of New York. It’s the area roughly below the Flatiron Building on 23rd street on down to 14th, home to lots of photographers and attendant services. It was even called the Photo District for a while, but now […]

Chelsea Market Happily busy for these days working on various jobs and projects. Here are a few random moments walking around town. Midtown Party on the Upper West Side

Roosevelt Island Tram, 59th Street I have an assignment photographing 39 buildings around Manhattan. Spent most of the day in 90 degree heat schlepping around the Upper East Side scouting the buildings. As I walked down First Avenue under the Roosevelt Island tram station at the foot of the 59th Street Bridge I looked up […]

Chinese take-out on Christopher Street Last night we went to the Public Theater to see Voices in Conflict, a play created and performed by the drama class of Wilton High School in Wilton, Connecticut. Voices is a dramatic compilation of the words of American soldiers in Iraq and Iraqi civilians. See earlier post here. The […]

A few months ago I wrote about photographing Civil War monuments around Brooklyn for an exhibition in the fall. Well, it’s finally happening, and I’ve gotten out several times with my view camera to take pictures. If all goes well, my photographs will comprise a unified series of contemporary views of Brooklyn monuments, which will […]

Christopher Street/Sheridan Square subway station The headline said “Wish You Were Here.” Christopher Street

Houston Street Another picture taken while walking on Houston Street between home and office.

Third Avenue, the Bronx Traveled up to the South Bronx to take a few photos for a column my wife (Renée Schoonbeek) writes for a Dutch planning magazine. She is interested in a new housing development to be built on a vacant piece of land near the Hub (Google map), a busy shopping area that […]

More random New York images. Chelsea Market Chelsea Market

Intersection II • Richard Serra A while ago I posted a comment about a series of photographs of Richard Serra’s sculpture made by Hiroshi Sugimoto. I objected to the fuzzy treatment–Sugimoto’s trademark–for this quintessentially hard-edged work. Here are a few of my images of two Serra pieces in the Museum of Modern Art garden, not […]

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn As I wrote in an earlier post, I have been asked to make photographs of Civil War memorials around Brooklyn for an exhibit this fall at the Brooklyn Public Library. I just got started this past week with a series of pictures of several monuments and statues at Grand Army Plaza. […]

A few random images from our trip up to Connecticut over the Memorial Day weekend. Wilton, Connecticut My Brooklyn Bridge fireworks image in good company,Wilton, Connecticut Old house • Westbrook, Connecticut New house • Westbrook, Connecticut Westbrook, Connecticut Brendan and me, Westbrook, Connecticut

Dutch architecture in the Saturday New York Times. One of the most prominent of the so-called baby Rems (Rem Koolhaas) is the firm of Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk. I first came across Neutelings’ work while photographing design models for a building on Mercatorplein, a public square, in Amsterdam. His proposal seemed a little […]

Prince Street Flip flop weather.

Long Island City I wasn’t familiar with the French designer/architect Jean Prouvé until several years ago when I photographed an auction house in New York that was selling some of his furniture. He is well-known in France, less so over here. When I read that his Maison Tropicale, a metal kit house, was on display […]

Houston and Broadway More randomness moving about town. New posts on the way.