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Stairs and Skylight, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve all gotten used to the terms “landscape” and “portrait” being used to designate the orientation of a rectangular display screen, printed document, or photograph, though there’s no reason a portrait can’t be horizontal, or a landscape vertical.\u00a0 I live in New York, a famously vertical city of skyscrapers, but even here most of the locals scurry around the streets like the inhabitants of Flatland<\/a>, never imagining that third dimension.\u00a0 In 1998 photographer Horst Hamann<\/a> published a book called New York Vertical<\/a>, that showed how excitingly the upward thrust of the city can be captured in a tall and narrow frame.<\/p>\n

I believe Hamann used a 6 cm x 17 cm medium format film camera like this one<\/a> (though not necessarily this brand or model).\u00a0 I can’t afford one of those, so when I’ve wanted to capture a very wide or very tall view I usually just take anywhere from two to six sequential panning shots on a fairly humble digital camera, stitching them together later using computer software.\u00a0 I started doing this with the Canon G1 I got back in 2001.\u00a0 It came with a “stitch assist” mode that helped align such a series using the LCD viewfinder, and a program called PhotoStitch to put them together.\u00a0 Today Photoshop includes a panorama merging function, and Sony has a “sweep panorama” mode where you just pan over the landscape and the camera automates the whole process.\u00a0 I don’t have one of those, but I’ve had pretty good results with combining a series of photos the “old fashioned” way.<\/p>\n

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Javits Center Geometry, 2004, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’re looking at these pictures on a small screen or a short wide display you may have to scroll vertically to see the whole picture.\u00a0 This is actually the most natural way to look at these pictures.\u00a0 They capture a larger vertical field of view than you can take in in a glance.\u00a0 They represent looking at something head-on and then tilting the head to move your view upwards, or vice versa.\u00a0 When you make one of these images small enough to take in the whole thing at once, it looks very distorted.\u00a0 In the shots above and below, the lower part of the picture is a straight-on view with the gaze parallel to the ground, while the upper part is seen as though the head is tilted back at a severe angle.\u00a0 They represent a movement of vision, not an instant of vision.<\/p>\n

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Puck Building Fire Escape, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The picture below shows an audience on the sidewalk, watching one of the storefront window performances<\/a> at the arts organization Chashama<\/a> in 2002, with the newly constructed Cond\u00e9 Nast building towering overhead, 48 stories high.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to Chashama Land, 2002, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes the tilt of the view is not from horizontal to upward, but from horizontal to downward, as in this view of the stairs going into a Subway station at the south end of Central Park.<\/p>\n

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Subway Stairs, 2003, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Towers and stairways are not the only vertical presence in the city.\u00a0 Trees are the great mediators between earth and sky.\u00a0 Here are butoh dancers Moeno Wakamatsu<\/a> and Celeste Hastings<\/a>, performing in the 17th century graveyard of St. Marks Church in the Bowery, where Peter Stuyvesant is buried.<\/p>\n

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Celeste and Moeno at St Marks, 2006, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Reddish streetlights make a bare tree at dusk look like arteries and capillaries.<\/p>\n

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Vascular Tree, 2005, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a view from inside “Big Bambu” a sculptural\/architectural temporary evolving installation by Mike and Doug Starn<\/a> on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. (An outside view of this piece is the third photo from the bottom in this post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Bambu Interior, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, here’s one of Manhattan’s earliest skyscrapers, the Flatiron Building, a favorite subject for photographers since the time of Stieglitz and Steichen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flatiron Lamppost, 2010, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

All the photos in this post are stitched panoramas, made from multiple original shots.\u00a0 See this post<\/a> for a vertical panorama of the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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