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  • The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by architect Cesar Pelli are the world’s tallest buildings.
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  • The North South Expressway links Kuala Lumpur to Thailand.  The Petronas Towers, the other twins towers have emerged to become the world's tallest buildings and the Other Twin Towers.
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  • The North South Expressway links Kuala Lumpur to Thailand.  The Petronas Towers, the other twins towers have emerged to become the world's tallest buildings and the Other Twin Towers.
    scf4327-725petronas towers 0000 kual...jpg
  • The North South Expressway links Kuala Lumpur to Thailand.  The Petronas Towers, the other twins towers have emerged to become the world's tallest buildings and the Other Twin Towers.
    Petronas Towers 0000 Kuala.jpg
  • The North South Expressway links Kuala Lumpur to Thailand.  The Petronas Towers, the other twins towers have emerged to become the world's tallest buildings and the Other Twin Towers.
    scf4383-891.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
  • 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
  • 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 0001 Stilts.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
  • 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
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    fct4383-842_Chrysler 0003 2 of Serie...jpg
  • New York City skyline at dusk with the World Trade Center.
    World Trade Center 0003.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0007.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0003 2 of Series.jpg
  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
    fct4383-845_Chrysler 0009 Grand Cent...jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    fct4383-843_Chrysler 0005 4 of Serie...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.  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
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0008.jpg
  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
    Chrysler 0005 4 of Series.jpg
  • NYC Skyline
    NY Skyline sunset Twin Towers.jpg
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