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  • Volunteers of America as Santas spread out through New York to collect money for charity.
    fct4383-868_New York 0050 Santas.jpg
  • Volunteers of America as Santas spread out through New York to collect money for charity.
    New York 0050 Santas.jpg
  • Broker on the floor on New York City Stock Exchange.
    fct4383-856New York 0015 StockExchan...jpg
  • A intimate couple along the Battery Park City Promenade in New York City by the Hudson River.
    fct4383-855_New York 0012 Battery Pa...jpg
  • Park 51 Hotel Room Service includes a different kind of touch as white gloves are delivered with the morning newspaper so ink does not smear on the guest's hands.
    New York 0044 Park 51 Hotel.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0007.jpg
  • Homeless Sleeping outside the American Savings Bank in New York City.
    scf4383-847_New York 0007 Homeless.jpg
  • Chess match at the Chess Store in the Villiage of New York City.  Customers pay to play by the hour.
    fct4383-864_New York 0041 Chess Stor...jpg
  • World Trade Center in New York City.
    fct4383-862_New York 0022 World Trad...jpg
  • Night shot of Times Square.
    fct4383-854_New York 0011 Times Squa...jpg
  • New York Chrysler building in the evening with Grand Central Station.
    fct4383-846_Chrysler 0010.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    fct4383-844_Chrysler 0007.jpg
  • Chrysler Building during the day.
    fct4383-841_Chrysler 0002 1 of Serie...jpg
  • Tokyo String Quartet atop the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan.
    Tokyo String Quartet 0001.jpg
  • Snowstorm in Soho, New York City.
    Soho Snowstorm.jpg
  • An entrepreneur sets up a Tarot card reading on a sidewalk of the Lower East Side.
    New York 0042 Tarot Cards.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    New York 0009 4th July.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    New York 0008 4th July.jpg
  • The Chrysler Building in New York City; designed by architect William Van Allen in the popular Art Deco style of 1930.
    Chrysler Building 0011.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July. 1989
    scf4383-849.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July. 1989
    scf4383-849_New York 0008a 4th July.jpg
  • The Empire Diner in New York City at 10th Avenue and 22nd Street.
    fct4383-866_New York 0043 Empire din...jpg
  • The Chrysler Building in New York City; designed by architect William Van Allen in the popular Art Deco style of 1930.
    fct4421-046_chrysler building 0013.jpg
  • Park 51 Hotel Room Service includes a different kind of touch as white gloves are delivered with the morning newspaper so ink does not smear on the guest's hands.
    fct4383-867_New York 0044 Park 51 Ho...jpg
  • An entrepreneur sets up a Tarot card reading on a sidewalk of the Lower East Side.
    fct4383-865_New York 0042 Tarot Card...jpg
  • Couple kissing in Soho, New York City
    fct4383-861_New York 0017 KissingCou...jpg
  • Couple kissing outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.
    fct4383-859_New York 0016c KissinCou...jpg
  • Couple kissing outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.
    fct4383-859_New York 0016b KissinCou...jpg
  • Night shot of Times Square.
    fct4383-853_New York 0010 Times Squa...jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    fct4383-850_New York 0008b 4th July.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    fct4383-843_Chrysler 0005 4 of Serie...jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    fct4383-842_Chrysler 0003 2 of Serie...jpg
  • Chess match at the Chess Store in the Villiage of New York City.  Customers pay to play by the hour.
    New York 0041 Chess Store.jpg
  • World Trade Center in New York City.
    New York 0022 World Trade.jpg
  • Couple kissing in Soho, New York City
    New York 0017 KissingCouple.jpg
  • Couple kissing outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.
    New York 0016c KissinCoupl.jpg
  • Couple kissing outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.
    New York 0016b KissinCoupl.jpg
  • Woman kissing man outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.
    New York 0016a KissinCoupl.jpg
  • Couple kissing outside Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
    New York 0016 KissingCouple.jpg
  • Broker on the floor on New York City Stock Exchange.
    New York 0015 StockExchange.jpg
  • Night shot of Times Square.
    New York 0011 Times Square.jpg
  • Night shot of Times Square.
    New York 0010 Times Square.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    New York 0009a 4th July.jpg
  • Photography is usually one of the professions where, if you do a bad job nobody dies but when I photographed the Chrysler Building there was every chance that if we messed up – statistically someone was going to get hurt.  We fabricated a scaffold with adjustable platforms to mount four motorized Hasselblad cameras and hang it over the edge of the Chrysler Building to get this viewpoint. One of my assistants, a bit of an electronics buff wired all the cameras to a single switching box so I could fire them all with one button. It so happened that the previous tenants had vacated the week before so we had the whole wing of the floor to ourselves.  We strung climbing rope through the windows and around the building as a main lifeline and clipped ourselves onto the line with harnesses.  The whole heavy contraption was lowered and raised about thirty times over rush hour pedestrian traffic some 57 stories above Lexington Avenue as we changed film backs and adjusted exposures and made slight adjustments in camera angles.  Even though we were all roped and harnessed in, if anything fell, say a film back or film slide and hit someone it would have been a disaster.<br />
We photographed the building over several days during a couple of sunsets and sunrises, even at different times of year but the best shot was taken the first day.  It was one of those miraculously rare clear days when the pollution was blown out to sea leaving metropolis looking like it just got out of the bath.  I used Tungsten film to accentuate the blues of magic hour when two divergent spectrums of light, blues and reds, coverag
    Chrysler 0001 Guardian.jpg
  • Chrysler Building during the day.
    Chrysler 0002 1 of Series.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0003 2 of Series.jpg
  • New York Chrysler building in the evening with Grand Central Station.
    Chrysler 0010.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian.  Dusk on New York City.
    Chrysler 0004 3 of Series.jpg
  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
    Chrysler 0009 Grand Central.jpg
  • Setting up Chrysler Building photograph called The Guardian.
    Chrysler 0020 set up 1.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    scf4383-848.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    fct4383-852_New York 0009a 4th July.jpg
  • New York City skyline with Empire State Building (left)  and Chrysler Building (right).
    fct4421-049_empire state building 00...jpg
  • Woman kissing man outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.
    fct4383-858_New York 0016a KissinCou...jpg
  • Couple kissing outside Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
    fct4383-857_New York 0016 KissingCou...jpg
  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
    fct4383-845_Chrysler 0009 Grand Cent...jpg
  • A intimate couple along the Battery Park City Promenade in New York City by the Hudson River.
    New York 0012 Battery Park.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July.
    New York 0008b 4th July.jpg
  • New York City Skyline on the 4th of July. 1989
    New York 0008a 4th July.jpg
  • Homeless Sleeping outside the American Savings Bank in New York City.
    New York 0007 Homeless.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0008.jpg
  • The Chrysler Building in New York City; designed by architect William Van Allen in the popular Art Deco style of 1930.
    Chrysler Building 0012.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0005 4 of Series.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
    scf4327-900_American Trash 0002.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
    American Trash 0002.jpg
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