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  • Night shot of Times Square.
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  • Night shot of Times Square.
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  • Night shot of Times Square.
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  • Night shot of Times Square.
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  • 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
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  • Children at the Sony IMAX Theater in New York City experience an eight story high film screen in 3 dimensions with the aid of liquid crystal headsets that blink 48 times a second.
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  • Children at the Sony IMAX Theater in New York City experience an eight story high film screen in 3 dimensions with the aid of liquid crystal headsets that blink 48 times a second.
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  • Children at the Sony IMAX Theater in New York City experience an eight story high film screen in 3 dimensions with the aid of liquid crystal headsets that blink 48 times a second.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Uta Pippig is a professional athlete, a marathoner and long distance runner from the former East germany.  She has won the Boston Marathon three times and trains in Boulder, Co.  The Flatirons are in the background.
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  • Steve Ross, CEO of Time Warner
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  • Steve Ross, CEO of Time Warner.
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  • Steve Rubell, along with Ian Schrager founded Studio 54, one of the most happening discos of its time in New York City and  after a short stint in prison for tax evasion opened a string of successful hotels like the Morgan here.
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  • Steve Rubell, along with Ian Schrager founded Studio 54, one of the most happening discos of its time in New York City and  after a short stint in prison for tax evasion opened a string of successful hotels like the Morgan here.
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  • Steve Rubell, along with Ian Schrager founded Studio 54, one of the most happening discos of its time in New York City and  after a short stint in prison for tax evasion opened a string of successful hotels like the Morgan here.
    Rubell Steve 0001.jpg
  • Steve Rubell, along with Ian Schrager founded Studio 54, one of the most happening discos of its time in New York City and  after a short stint in prison for tax evasion opened a string of successful hotels like the Morgan here.
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