{"id":3874,"date":"2012-03-02T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2012-03-02T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:46:51","slug":"new-yorkcentral-park-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/new-yorkcentral-park-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2012\/bethesda_fountain_1982_lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3877\" title=\"bethesda_fountain_1982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bethesda_fountain_19821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bethesda_fountain_19821.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bethesda_fountain_19821-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, 1982 (35mm Kodachrome) &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago I posted several photographs made while walking through Central Park. Early in my career I worked a lot in the park with both a view camera and a 35mm camera. I don&#8217;t remember the exact circumstances of the image above&#8211;often I was shooting for the Central Park Conservancy \u00a0when using the small camera. I had a 4&#215;5 internegative made from the slide, and made a couple of prints, but never did much with them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a romantic image of New York, two couples passing each other on the stairs, almost black and white, quiet.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I met some friends at the Museum of Modern Art, and afterwards returned to my studio by subway. On the 57th Street platform I encountered a couple of musicians playing bluegrass, old time mountain music. One played a banjo, the other a mandolin. They were really wonderful, and several of us dropped bills in the open banjo case.<\/p>\n<p>A man stepped forward carrying an oddly shaped black instrument case and gave some money. I immediately thought to myself, that is somebody.We ended up sitting opposite each other on the train, and I saw a sticker on his case &#8212; Kronos Quartet. It was their cellist, Jeffrey Zeigler, which I confirmed later when I got back to my studio. They had just played the night before at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<p>I once saw the Kronos Quartet play at Lincoln Center. They were performing the string quartets of Alfred Schnittke, the late Russian composer. I did not have tickets and went to the hall expecting to sit far from the stage. Instead, due to a last minute cancellation, I ended up in the front row just a few feet from the performers. It was both exhilarating and nerve wracking to sit so close, hearing every breath, every groan, seeing beads of sweat form on the musicians&#8217; faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, 1982 (35mm Kodachrome) &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose A couple of days ago I posted several photographs made while walking through Central Park. Early in my career I worked a lot in the park with both a view camera and a 35mm camera. I don&#8217;t remember the exact circumstances of the image [&hellip;]<\/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-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}