{"id":325,"date":"2008-08-19T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2008-08-19T02:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:56:00","slug":"new-yorkthe-new-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/new-yorkthe-new-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/The New Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New Museum and scene along the Bowery (4×5 film montage)<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve taken a few pictures that include the New Museum as part of my ongoing look at the Bowery at the Lower East Side. But this time I had a specific assignment to photograph the museum, especially as it relates to the immediate neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

The obvious “best view” of the building from the street is to step back into Prince Street, which terminates perpendicular to the Bowery, to get a little distance from the tower, and show a bit of the street. I’ve also seen a nice evening view from atop a nearby building, and another one from across several rooftops. I’ve done that myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

But none of the pictures describes very well the way in which the intentionally misaligned stacked boxes mimic horizontally the varying vertical heights of the adjacent buildings. To do this I needed to maintain a frontal “elevation” to the facades from straight across the street. Shooting with a very wide lens didn’t work–too much distortion, and even with perspective correction, not enough of the feeling of a true elevation. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, I chose to use a medium wide lens on the 4×5 camera, framed horizontally, correcting perspective, and then doing a second frame above the first, this time tilting back to get everything in with plenty of sky to play with later in Photoshop. I repeated the same thing to the right of the museum. In putting the montage together on the computer the upper and lower frames stitched seamlessly pretty well, but I didn’t try to join together the left and right images. There were too many things going on between the two camera positions that prevented a seamless stitch. <\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I like the gap because there’s no attempt at hiding the artifice of the montage. The effect of a continuous street wall is maintained, nevertheless.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Museum and scene along the Bowery (4×5 film montage) I’ve taken a few pictures that include the New Museum as part of my ongoing look at the Bowery at the Lower East Side. But this time I had a specific assignment to photograph the museum, especially as it relates to the immediate neighborhood. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}