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\n<\/a>Travel wide 4×5 camera with film holder — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n
Architecture can be dramatic or prosaic, showy or utilitarian, but usually not both simultaneously. Let me tell you about a salt shed in lower Manhattan on Canal Street. I had just gotten a new camera to play with — a hand holdable 4×5 camera designed by a couple of guys in Chicago funded by a Kickstarter campaign. As small as a DSLR and half as light. I decided to take it out for a spin to see how it would work for me photographing a building. My wife works in the Hudson Square area, the old printing district west of Soho, and she suggested I take a look at the new Spring Street salt shed designed by Dattner Architects, a New York based architectural firm.<\/p>\n
It is just that. A shed meant for storing the stuff used to melt ice and snow on the streets of the city. But instead of the usual metallic tent-like structure, there is, here, a multi-facetted shard of concrete looking very much like a salt crystal, or at least that’s what two different sanitation workers passing by told me while I was taking pictures. And it has walls three feet thick. They loved it.<\/p>\n
Here it is:<\/p>\n
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\n<\/a>\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/a>\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/a>\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/a>\u00a9 Brian Rose
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