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  • The World Trade Center in New York City.
    fct4421-051_world trade center 0001.jpg
  • New York City skyline at dusk with the World Trade Center.
    fct4421-047_world trade center 0002.jpg
  • This part of the World Trade Center was destroyed during 9/11 and later rebuilt after this picture was taken.
    fct4383-988_World Trade Center 0030 ...jpg
  • World Trade Center in New York City.
    fct4383-862_New York 0022 World Trad...jpg
  • This part of the World Trade Center was destroyed during 9/11 and later rebuilt after this picture was taken.
    World Trade Center 0030 Atr.jpg
  • New York City skyline at dusk with the World Trade Center.
    World Trade Center 0003.jpg
  • World Trade Center in New York City.
    New York 0022 World Trade.jpg
  • Locals trying to sell or trade goods to those aboard superyacht Hyperion.
    fct4383-877_Papua New Guinea 0007.jpg
  • Locals trying to sell or trade goods to those aboard superyacht Hyperion.
    Papua New Guinea 0007.jpg
  • Blue Man Group on Stilts.  Improvised act atop the Clocktower Gallery in New York City.
    Blue Man Group 0003 Paint.jpg
  • Blue Man Group on Stilts.  Improvised act atop the Clocktower Gallery in New York City.
    Blue Man Group 0002 Stilts.jpg
  • Chrysler Building during the day.
    fct4383-841_Chrysler 0002 1 of Serie...jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0007.jpg
  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
    fct4383-845_Chrysler 0009 Grand Cent...jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    fct4383-844_Chrysler 0007.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
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0037.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0035.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0035-2.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0034.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0032.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0032-2.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0030.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0030-2.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0021-2.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0019.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0019-2.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0016.jpg
  • New York City skyline at dusk.
    NYC Skyline 0001.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
  • 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
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    fct4421-055_statue of liberty 0034.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0021.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0016-2.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian.  Dusk on New York City.
    Chrysler 0004 3 of Series.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0008.jpg
  • The Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.  A gift from France, it has become a symbol of democracy and freedom.
    Statue of Liberty 0037-2.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0005 4 of Series.jpg
  • Rosewood oil from laurel trees in Brazil tested by trader Stephen Manheimer in New York City.  The rare oil is one of hundreds of natural products used in some perfumes.
    scf4327-839_Smell 0060 Brazil Jimmy.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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