Category Archives: Photographs

Worth a thousand words

Photographs

From the despots in China.

God help all those marathon runners. Let’s hope their undetectable performance enhancing drugs carry the day for sports and Big Pharma.

What a cruel joke to hold an event meant to send a message of freedom in a brutal dictatorship with drug-fuelled ‘athletes’ breathing foul air.

This picture truly is worth a thousand words.

NYC Architecture – some snaps

Architecture

Rounding out the Manhattan thing.

Here are some snaps of New York architecture, taken over the years.


Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue


Old and new


MoMA


SoHo


Park Avenue


The Look building reflected in the Helmsley Palace


Sixth Avenue

A fine primer on architectural style is How to Read Buildings – if you want to regale friends with the differences between an architrave and a muntin, this one is for you.

Here’s another worth checking out if Art Deco is your thing:


More NYC architecture

Architecture

Carnegie Hall’s west elevation along Seventh Avenue always reminded me of what a steel mill might have looked like in that brilliant Scotsman’s era:


Carnegie Hall. Pentax ME Super, 135mm Takumar, Kodachrome 64.

1920s buildings are hard to improve upon:


Low-fifties, west side. Pentax ME Super, 135mm Takumar, Kodachrome 64.

Go back a few more decades and Tribeca has some lovely old iron warehouse buildings, now all converted to expensive lofts, with soaring ceilings and huge windows – the Carnegie mills probably provided much of the building materials for these:


Iron-framed building in Tribeca. Pentax ME Super, 28mm Takumar, Kodachrome 64.

If the politics of big buildings interest you, try Paul Goldeberger’s book Up from Zero which goes some way to explain why, seven years after 9/11, Manhattan has yet to see the first brick laid in rebuilding the World Trade Centers.