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  • Jeff Koons and rabbit of stainless steel (41"x19"x12") molded after an inflatable rabbit.  I photographed Koons in my Manhattan studio, blew up an eight foot print of Koons, flew it to the Satchi Museum and photogrpahed his portrait with a 4x5 camera through a hole cut out in the neck of his shirt.  For the series "Portraits of Artists in the style of their own work."
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • The Chrysler Building in New York City; designed by architect William Van Allen in the popular Art Deco style of 1930.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building during the day.
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  • 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
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • 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
  • New York Chrysler building in the evening with Grand Central Station.
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  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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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
    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 with Grand Central Station.
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  • Setting up Chrysler Building photograph called The Guardian.
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  • New York City skyline with Empire State Building (left)  and Chrysler Building (right).
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian.  Dusk on New York City.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0005 4 of Series.jpg
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