I photographed this building for my book project, "Looking Up at
New York". It is located on 12th Street between 5th and 6th avenues, and is one of my favorites buildings in all
of New York. It is the New School for Social Service designed by Joseph
Urban and built in 1931. It has a very Bauhaus, Art Deco look to it
with the lateral brick work stripes. In the 1930's this became home to
the "intellegentia" who were fleeing the Nazis in the prelude to WWII.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Flatiron Building
at 23rd Street between 5th and BroadwayThe streaked lights of passing traffic in this night time photo are the result of a 3 second exposure on a Leica M9 and 35mm lens. |
Because it sat out in an open space when it was first built, a wind tunnel effect with strong downdrafts was created around it. This led to the phrase "23 skidoo", which is what policemen said to chase away the men who waited there for the strong winds to lift the dresses of passing women.
The blurred snowflakes in this photo were caused by using the pop-up camera flash to light up the closest flakes. They were so close that they appear only as blurs. |
This view is a vertical panoramic made up of six horizontal images taken with a Leica M9. Such a combo renders the resulting image extremely high in resolution. |
The Flatiron Building is located just south of Madison Square Park. The building in the background is the Metropolitan Life Insurance building. |
The building is covered in limestone on the bottom and glazed terra-cotta tiles above. |
Extreme telephoto lenses compress space. The photo above and below taken with a 400mm lens are examples of this. |
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue (between 42nd & 43rd Streets)Designed by William Van Alen in the Arat Deco Style. When it was built in 1930 it was the tallest building in the world until superceeded by the Empire State Building the following year.
Looking down 42nd Street on the day of "Manhattanhenge" when the sunset lines up with the grid of the city streets. The spire of the Chrysler building rises above the other buildings on the right.
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