I always considered the World Trade Center to be a collection of the ugliest skyscrapers in the city, and there was this small Greek Orthodox church situated in a nearby parking lot and I was just trying to juxtapose the lines of these two worlds. But of course history comes along to stamp it’s own meaning on the scene.
Just curious, but has this picture sold well? If not, did you feature it enough in your store?
Matt – I never put it into the store. I’m just now getting around to working with some of my WTC stuff. When the fencing was put up around the site, I spent a few hours photographing people looking through the holes at the site. I have enough to do a small book; but it’s just another one of those things that I never got around to. When the WTC is finished, I’ll put them all into the store in their own section.
Nice one Dave. This should be in the store. Is this 4X5? I like the architecture of the twin towers and somehow feel the skyline benefitted from their presence. When I look at skyline pictures either from Brooklyn into NYC or from the Upper Bay into NYC, with the towers in place, it feels complete somehow. I’m not convinced that the Freedom Tower and the other new buildings will be a positive benefit to the skyline. The tower was changed and morphed -from Daniel Libeskind’s original design- so many times and by committee that it seems to have lost any strong and original character.
Thanks. This was with the Mamiya 6. I did like that camera and quite a few if the shots in the store are from the mamiya 6.
Odd, although at the time I could have afforded the mamiya 7 ( version in 67 format) I liked the Mamiya 6 better. Not really sure why but I had alot of keepers from that camera.
I began with 35mm. Jumped to MF with the rollei tlr. Then to the Wista 4×5. Then slowly back down the negative size scale.
Then the hankering fer 4×5 returned and I got the Toyo 4×5 which was metal and much heavier then the Wista.
Them back down ladder. And so it went. Funny thing, with all the cameras I had over the years I can always remember the camera I used to take the shot.
Example: poets Walk, well over ten years I remember was the wooden Wista because it was so windy that day and I was trying to hold the front to stop it from shaking in the wind.
The Toya or was it Toyo was much heavier and caused me to sprain my back badly one day in a snowstorm.
Greek Orthodox?
Are you referring to (the Episcopal) St. Paul’s Chapel, part of Trinity Church, where George Washington’s pew can still be seen?
Nope. This is /was a small church in a parking lot. Really. I went in to look around. One side is what you see here. The other side actually has a big sign with parking rates.
I do have shots of trinity and some of the graveyard but nothing this dramatic.
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