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  • In 1810 Reverend Alexander Dobbin  created sliding shelves at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to hide several slaves in a crawl space.
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  • In 1810 Reverend Alexander Dobbin  created sliding shelves at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to hide several slaves in a crawl space.
    UndergroundRR 0005 Dobbin.jpg
  • The main salon of Hyperion, widely considered one of the world's finest sailing yachts, built by the Royal Huisman Shipyard in Vollenhove, Holland.  An electric organ folds out beneath the model ship and the dining table is motorized to accommodate guests against sliding into the couch seating.  Over 7000 different fucntions on the boat are controlled by computers.  And although the yacht is one of the most elegant interior and exterior designs in the world she is also one of the fastest, winning the Millinium Cup, a race of super-yachts during the last America's Cup.
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  • The main salon of Hyperion, widely considered one of the world's finest sailing yachts, built by the Royal Huisman Shipyard in Vollenhove, Holland.  An electric organ folds out beneath the model ship and the dining table is motorized to accommodate guests against sliding into the couch seating.  Over 7000 different fucntions on the boat are controlled by computers.  And although the yacht is one of the most elegant interior and exterior designs in the world she is also one of the fastest, winning the Millinium Cup, a race of super-yachts during the last America's Cup.
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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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