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12 Months

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Here we take a look back at 2010 in the landscape of New York City, with one photo from each month.  I often keep a camera with me as I walk around the city, and photograph scenes and patterns and effects of the light that catch my eye, like the rainy reflections above, or the [...]

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Magic Squares

Saturday, November 6, 2010

A lot of writing about proportions and composition focuses on the golden ratio or phi.  Relationships based on phi appear everywhere you look in natural forms and cycles.  Artists, architects and designers frequently use the golden rectangle based on this ratio, and it’s often considered the most beautiful of all rectangles.  But it could be [...]

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Uncultivated Arrangements

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

In the late 1980′s and early 1990′s I lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, right across from the stage door of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. My apartment was the parlor floor of a slightly shabby Civil War era brownstone. The adjacent house on one side was a crack den, and the house on the other [...]

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Skylines

Friday, September 17, 2010

You have to get a little outside of it to get good views of Manhattan’s famous skyline.  The view above is from a Tribeca highrise apartment balcony.  The one below is from across the East River in Brooklyn. Atop a bridge you’re both high and outside, as in this view from the approach to the [...]

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Old Glory in New York

Saturday, July 3, 2010

For the Fourth of July, I offer a selection of images of the Stars and Stripes, as displayed in my home city of New York. Many artists have explored the aesthetic possibilities of the U.S. flag, most famously Jasper Johns. It has a strong graphic presence that makes it stand out in nearly any setting.  [...]

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