March 23, 2008

melting architectural lines


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February 17, 2008

survivor: the naked maw of an older Chelsea trade


untitled (marquee) 2008 a panorama of a section of 19th Street...
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February 1, 2008

inside window, 23rd Street platform


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January 24, 2008

black & white grid under the High Line


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November 8, 2007

pink trash


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November 4, 2007

inside out


untitled (Mulberry branch) 2007 I've always liked this pyramid skylight in the ceiling of the smallest gallery at Dam, Stuhltrager, and on a beautiful Sunday afternoon one week ago it seemed more alive than ever....
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October 24, 2007

on the windowsill at 4:45 today


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October 10, 2007

subway vellum


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September 21, 2007

platform beauty


untitled (pink line) 2007 I still wouldn't set anything down on it, but sometimes there's a bit of beauty in the lowly subway platform. Of course it doesn't show up if you bring something along to read while you...
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September 19, 2007

Hudson River Park, languor and vigor


We wandered through Hudson River Park along the West 20's and 30's on Sunday afternoon, intermittently dodging the distractions of speedy human-powered wheeled traffic (much of the pedestrian path remains to be built), construction equipment, the banshee screams of...
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September 4, 2007

night bike bag


untitled (seams) 2007 homage to Dan...
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September 1, 2007

tree and bird cover high above the garden


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August 26, 2007

a place in the country on a Sunday afternoon


untitled (convertible hair) 2007 These very healthy-looking sunflowers seemed to be enjoying the breeze while standing inside their tiny triangle of a park on Horatio Street this afternoon....
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August 20, 2007

frippery


untitled (fuzz) 2007 Now it's just a website frippery, but this happy mix lining our courtyard-garden path makes me smile every time I walk through it....
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August 14, 2007

Chinese-red shell of an alarm box


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August 10, 2007

Bushwick lace


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August 9, 2007

SVA studio building control panel


untitled (top) 2007 citing David Gibson...
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July 23, 2007

WTC, almost six years on


untitled (the ramp) 2007 This is a view of the hole, taken from a chink in the fabric of the temporary Vesey Street bridge late last night, although it looked to me more like the construction site of a...
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July 21, 2007

shy Williamsburg low-rise with tall, aggressive neighbors


untitled (antennae) 2007 Didn't anybody notice this triangular lot when these two buildings were going up?...
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July 17, 2007

...NOW IT'S YOUR TURN.


untitled (TURN) 2007 This had almost nothing to do with the Manhattan Mini Storage advertising campaign, and almost everything to do with bold and angled lines - and the English bond....
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July 14, 2007

triangles in the garden


I shot these images while crossing through our courtyard garden on my way to the market late this afternoon....
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July 7, 2007

Williamsburg and Bushwick, my big sky country


I do think that until you've visited the high prairie you don't fully understand the term, "Big Sky Country". I've been to Montana several times, and I understand. But today I live in a Manhattan canyon, so I also...
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July 2, 2007

Roebling Street: boxes of space


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July 1, 2007

toppled


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June 30, 2007

angles and planes


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June 28, 2007

Lower East Side blue (night blur)


untitled (blue construction tarp) 2007 With New York temperatures in the 90's and the humidity not so far behind, I thought a cool blue image might feel good today. I grabbed this shot on the move, while walking with...
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June 24, 2007

broken


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June 18, 2007

West 19th Street walls


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June 6, 2007

follow the arrow


untitled (arrows) 2007 Most people were looking at the big hole (the site of the once and future World Trade Center) when we walked through the World Financial Center Winter Garden yesterday afternoon with visiting family members, but this...
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June 1, 2007

MoMA walls


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May 30, 2007

view from the gallery


untitled (GOYA) 2007 The color and shapes outside the window above the Bowery almost rivaled those inside the gallery, at Thrust Projects last Friday....
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May 27, 2007

lobster bike


Dalí would certainly have been pleased, had he been with us on the sidewalk outside the Chelsea Hotel this afternoon....
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May 25, 2007

Getaria fishing fleet


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Getaria open boats


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Spanish doors


I fell in love with many of the older doors (and their portals) in Spain, both for their beauty and for the physical scars which mark their survival. In some of the more ancient examples the wood had been...
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May 21, 2007

fishing boats in the harbor of Getaria


untitled (floats) 2007 Getaria is an extraordinarily beautiful small Basque town on the Bay of Biscay where we enjoyed a wonderful leisurely lunch on a stone terrace high above the harbor, at a restaurant bearing the improbable name, May...
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May 18, 2007

sleeping dog left lying in Barceloneta


untitled (dog nap) 2007 I found this shaggy little guy asleep in the middle of Placa Barceloneta Tuesday afternoon....
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May 16, 2007

two streets in Barcelona


untitled (skateboarder) 2007 untitled (laundry) 2007 These two shots were taken the same day, the first in El Raval, a neighborhood of Barcelona's Ciutat Vella, near the historic center of the city, the second in Barceloneta, a planned 18th-century...
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May 14, 2007

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia


untitled (gilt holes) 2007 This is a large detail of the arcaded ceiling of the nave of Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The backlit holes, haloed with gilt rays perhaps 60 meters above the floor, seem to suggest...
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May 13, 2007

ancient Spanish light


untitled (flames) 2007 Biggest votive candles ever! These thick tapers (measuring approximately one inch in diameter) were burning inside the enormous Renaisance/Baroque interior of Zaragosta's Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar when we visited the church on Saturday....
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three beautiful women in a Plaza, Castilla y Leon


untitled (walking sticks) 2007 Spaniards are almost always beautiful, but the older men and women have a kind of grace not found in youth, even the youth of Iberia. Not incidentally, they also dress much better than most of...
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May 11, 2007

somewhere in the Spanish Pyrenees, near the French border


untitled (roots) 2007 We're having some difficulty getting a decent internet connection, so I haven't been able to upload any of images I would like to have shown here in the last few days. This one was captured yesterday...
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May 5, 2007

Madrid seafood restaurant window


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May 4, 2007

two Madrid tavern scenes


untitled (jamon) 2007 untitled (tabac) 2007 It was obviously the azul hour. We were in Lavapiés tonight, walking down Calle Torrecilla del Leal toward Plaza Anton Martin, when we passed these two wonderful bars. I took these shots in...
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May 3, 2007

hanging out in Madrid


untitled (monster magazine) 2007 It didn't look like they were there to see Felipe III's grand Plaza....
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Madrid house


untitled (blue wall) 2007 Actually, it's not easy finding some bright color on Madrid buildings. This small old house near the Plaza de la Paja is a little eccentric, but it also needs a little more care than it's...
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Madrid restaurant window


untitled (cabbage) 2007 Restaurante El SoPortal displays its wares in the Plaza Major....
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April 26, 2007

faces on 10th Avenue


untitled (white truck yellow taxi) 2007 diptych...
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April 23, 2007

street chicken


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April 19, 2007

boarder


untitled (boarder) 2007 dusk, on our Chelsea corner...
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April 15, 2007

spring shows up beside the back gate


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April 1, 2007

sitting ducks?


untitled (duck cans) 2007 I spotted these guys in Chinatown last week. It's sad to think they might end up being sold separately, and then they'd never see each other again....
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March 26, 2007

kohlrabi land mines


untitled (kohlrabi) 2007 I confess I'm more shy about taking pictures of food stalls in Chinatown than I am about taking pictures of art in galleries, so I did this one on the run yesterday, between gallery stops. I...
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March 12, 2007

the snow of yesterday (actually, last week)


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February 18, 2007

subway abstractions


Barry had a copy of Harpers, but I had neglected to take any reading material with me today when we headed off to Williamsburg. Of course that meant that we would have an unusually long wait at the head...
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February 11, 2007

busy.


untitled (sun screen) 2006 but be back soon....
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January 17, 2007

gone yesterday


untitled (vinca) 2006 This image was taken on January 6, just ten days ago, when temperatures hovered near 70 degrees and a gentle rain was falling on our roof garden outside the breakfast room window. Last night the temperature...
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December 10, 2006

negative pole


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November 29, 2006

diamond in the rough


untitled (star crack) 2006 West 18th Street, the view from somewhere inside: Chelsea can still be a little edgy if you know where to look....
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November 27, 2006

dusk on Kent Street, Williamsburg


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November 14, 2006

planting the ceiling on a sunny day last week


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November 11, 2006

very blue truck outside Nick Cave tonight


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November 2, 2006

painted to be seen


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October 25, 2006

suggesting pumpkin


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October 21, 2006

morning glory thorns


untitled (razor wire) 2006 These morning glories, seen on a fence in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, on a late afternoon earlier this month, seemed totally indifferent to the manufactured thorns installed at the top....
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September 25, 2006

odd couple


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September 17, 2006

the old Vinegar Hill


untitled (asphalt siding) 2006 I'm pretty fond of the siding this nineteenth-century house in Brooklyn's Vinegar Hill aquired some time in the next....
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September 5, 2006

polished Gehry


The old Chelsea confronts the new: The faded remainder of a painted twentieth-century advertising sign for a popular auto body polish faces the sparkling highlights of a nearly-completed Frank Gehry building on the West Side Highway. The top of...
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August 24, 2006

study in composition and color, or parlor window serendipity


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August 15, 2006

keeping our twenty-first century subway humming


These electrical cable enclosures, which appeared almost exactly at eye level, easily amused me while I was waiting on the N/R platform at 42nd Street yesterday. It's amazing that the system somehow manages to work - most of the...
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wispiness


untitled (wispy) 2006 I'm lying low, trying very hard not to think about much of what's going on under these skies these days, but maybe I'll be able to do something in this space tomorrow....
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August 10, 2006

before the storm tonight, in Chelsea


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August 7, 2006

crossing from Williamsburg to Manhattan


untitled (bridge lamp) 2006 tungsten moon over the East River...
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July 9, 2006

rubbish barricade


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June 4, 2006

nature, Johnson, Kelly, Bertoia


Last week while visiting the garden Philip Johnson designed in 1953 for the Museum of Modern Art I was charmed by the anthopomorphic postures of the Bertoia chairs, also just over fifty years old, which are found strewn (rather mysteriously...
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May 27, 2006

green acres


untitled (posted) 2006 The site is the Huguenot Street Farm in New Paltz, New York. We pulled up across the road this afternoon, captivated by the unearthly-fresh green Richter meadow. We had arrived just after a torrential downpour....
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April 30, 2006

spring sprung


untitled (red petal) 2006 I spotted this ornamental tree in the garden in front of a town house on West 23rd Street yesterday afternoon. I've never before seen these blossoms attached to such a large specimen. The alien red...
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April 18, 2006

a corner of the old MoMA


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April 9, 2006

Wisteria as cartouche


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March 24, 2006

moving the art on 22nd Street


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March 19, 2006

pigeons on line


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March 8, 2006

a very special daisy


untitled (double Gerbera) 2006 Not until I got the little Gerbera Daisy plant came home did I notice how special it was: One of the blossoms is a double, a gorgeous pair of Siamese twins. They seem very happy....
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March 6, 2006

natural light


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February 24, 2006

city sea


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February 12, 2006

micro view of macro snowstorm


untitled (snowfolds 1) 2006 untitled (snowfolds 2) 2006 untitled (snowfolds 3) 2006 I've always gotten off on the voluptuousness of snow forms, but these sexy folds are the least approachable part of a great storm - unless you stick...
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January 22, 2006

delicious


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January 14, 2006

dividing in and out, light and shadow


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January 1, 2006

grace under light


[pink-eyed Cyclamen] I found my clunky old tripod today and I immediately teamed it up with my old Macro lens and brought the fancy new camera and a flowering plant to a south window just before the sun disappeared....
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November 19, 2005

left on 10th Avenue


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November 14, 2005

design and evolution


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November 10, 2005

between the rails


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October 31, 2005

an interval within the Affordable Art Fair


in between the art 2005 A quiet moment within a physical break between dealer booths on Pier 92 Saturday....
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October 30, 2005

abandoned pom-pon laces


First sighted by Barry late this afternoon, just about a block away from Bertrand Russell's pickup truck....
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October 12, 2005

living with Hans Poelzig


our Luft chimney We're in Berlin, where we are staying in a friend's apartment off Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The building was designed by Hans Poelzig in the late twenties, and the image above is that of the handsome small court within....
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October 7, 2005

Manhattan grid


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July 29, 2005

before Billy Joels, before potato barns, before the Shinecock,


untitled (rose scallops) 2005 . . . there were these communities. I'm very fond of shellfish, and my taste in art and food, especially food preparation, includes a powerful strain of minimalism. I spotted this gorgeous cache of shellfish...
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July 27, 2005

fuzzy grass


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July 3, 2005

PS1, at table, waiting for our panini number to be called


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looking down while waiting for the light to change


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June 12, 2005

after dinner lights


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May 28, 2005

Barry and Karen


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closed for the holiday


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May 25, 2005

the modern waterscape: sometimes a strange aesthetic mix


untitled (eight with cockswain) 2005 I captured this view of the Providence harbor off India Point at dusk last week. The suggestion of a vaseline-covered lens is just that: The instability of a zoom in low light did all...
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May 17, 2005

new growth at land's end, Provincetown


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still mustering


untitled (54th Regiment Memorial detail) 2005 From the Boston African-American National Historic site:Denied equal pay, African American soldiers in the 54th Regiment refused pay for 18 months until Congress agreed, in 1864, to pay them the same rate as...
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Cambridge, idle inside the Harvard T station


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May 15, 2005

Boston pansies


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May 8, 2005

tulips on their way out, but not without a splash


I'm very happy that I waited until this evening to capture these beauties in the center of our garden court. Now in the process of disappearing, they were never so deeply sensual, especially on close acquaintance....
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May 1, 2005

May Day


untitled (Rote Fahnen) 2005 In the spirit of May Day, the spirit of the Left and, yes, the spirit of the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la....
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further Williamsburg


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April 25, 2005

the back house


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April 23, 2005

retired, but only for the night


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April 21, 2005

elevator break


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April 19, 2005

between galleries


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April 16, 2005

box waiting


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April 11, 2005

Hunter window


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April 2, 2005

Williamsburg seen tonight


untitled (North Third polaroid) 2005 untitled (North Third surfers) 2005 untitled (Bedford Street Bästs) 2005 untitled (North Third eye) 2005...
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March 29, 2005

best in show - but it was no contest


untitled (1936 Lincoln Zephyr door handle) 2005 I saw no vehicle which pleased me more at the New York auto show than this seventy-year-old prop for the introduction of one manufacturer's 2006 model. I spent the entire afternoon at...
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March 26, 2005

like a huge, colored Eostre egg


untitled (piebald Met Life Building and van doppel) 2005 There can only be one explanation for the exuberance of this neighborhood display tonight: The fecundity feast of Eostre [sic]. Excerpts from the Wikipedia entry for Easter:The English and German...
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March 5, 2005

Bombay Talkie


untitled (Talkie stair sculpture) 2005 Sorry, but I forgot to ask for specifics about the sculpture, since we were virtually closing the restaurant Wednesday night when I snapped this image and there was no one around at the time...
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February 27, 2005

woods


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February 21, 2005

late New-Yorkish vertical International Style


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February 20, 2005

Duchamp on 10th Avenue


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February 14, 2005

7th Avenue in the rain: blue


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February 10, 2005

just a thought


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January 29, 2005

left on 10th Avenue today


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sepiae


untitled (parlor wall) 2005 I was sleepy and didn't feel much like moving, but I picked up the little camera as I lay on the couch late last night. This is roughly what I saw in the light available...
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January 14, 2005

red/white/blue


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December 13, 2004

as Autumn leaves


untitled (140 Cadman Plaza West, December 6, 2004) 2004...
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December 11, 2004

not the Cour Napoleon


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Chelsea window


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November 23, 2004

senza graffito


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September 26, 2004

loge


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September 15, 2004

St. Elvis


untitled (Elvis in the compactor room) 2004 Some of Chelsea's best installations are never seen by the public....
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September 14, 2004

blue light pink bear


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August 9, 2004

Getty Gardens, Bougainvillea


More than 25 years ago a friend in Boston brought me a present she had carried all the way back from a visit to El Paso, where she had grown up. It was a peach-colored ">Bougainvillea plant, and it...
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August 4, 2004

I'm a tree hugger


untitled (palms in the blue) These wonderful creatures could easily turn me into an animist. These palms were waving above the high terrace of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this afternoon. But, at least on the surface,...
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August 1, 2004

the old Chung King Road


untitled (Chung King Road) 2004 The very pedestrian Chung King Road is the site of six or eight of the most exciting galleries in Los Angeles, but it's also still part of Chinatown....
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July 31, 2004

baggage carousel triptych


untitled (United baggage carousel, LAX) 2004 Obviously we had some time on our hands after disembarking in L.A. this evening....
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July 30, 2004

Portland's Sauvie Island


We drove around Sauvie Island this afternoon, just outside the city of Portland. These two photographs are of landscapes approximately two miles from the city limits, and only twelve miles fom the very center of town. They are totally...
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July 11, 2004

Brooklyn Grand Ferry Park


untitled (Grand Ferry Park sunset) It's just a slip of a thing right now, but some day the site which once saw ferries, loaded with farm produce and passengers, crossing to Manhattan every few minutes from downtown Williamsburg may...
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July 7, 2004

west Chelsea, tomorrow


untitled (West 24th Street thus) 2004 untitled (West 24th Street and thus) 2004...
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June 30, 2004

clouds over PS1 on Sunday


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night waterscape, from Manhattan


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June 29, 2004

defining Manhattan as island


untitled (from Wagner Park railing) But this is not the only thing which separates us from the rest of the country....
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June 20, 2004

tree cave


untitled (Roebling street tree)...
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June 10, 2004

pansies in the park


untitled (Madison Park pansies)...
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May 30, 2004

Chinatown roofscape, sleepy afternoon


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May 29, 2004

white brick


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April 10, 2004

taken from us too soon


untitled (pavement gummibear)...
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two


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April 3, 2004

branding


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west 23rd Street on the way up


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OK


untitled (KO) 2004 Image taken from (inside out of) the most excellent and beautiful KOFOO on 8th Avenue between 26-27th Streets...
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March 28, 2004

study in pink and blue


untitled (Edsel Ranger on 8th Avenue)...
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March 22, 2004

contrasts


untitled (subway zebra)...
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March 21, 2004

a boy and his bird


George Blackall Simonds The Falconer (1875) It was a dark and stormy night. No, actually it was this afternoon, it was only 2 o'clock, and it was perfectly clear. I have no recollection of darkness. It was Central Park,...
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March 10, 2004

little yellow harbingers


in the Mahatma's garden, Union Square Park this afternoon [spring crocus (family Iridaceae)]...
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March 1, 2004

red bags at sunset


untitled (East Broadway, 5:19-5:23 pm, February 29) Musing, as we waited on the platform just before boarding the fire and brimstone train....
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January 25, 2004

EAT


Palacinka, inside out A wonderful ambience, and good simple food, a world away from Soho - we love Palacinka, and we're fussy. Nice people and a mellow style go a long way, in this case for just about any...
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January 22, 2004

peanuts nebula


untitled January 21, 2004 My own little camera is spending two weeks in the camera hospital, so the images have been few and far between lately. I borrow Barry's sturdy Canon occasionally....
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January 11, 2004

city winter


SculptureCenter, Long Island City, 4:45 pm, January 10, 2004...
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January 7, 2004

drake, just beyond Dragonfly Preserve


Central Park, 2 pm, December 6, 2004...
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January 2, 2004

untitled


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January 1, 2004

the New Year in balloons


West 23rd Street, January 1, 2004 Woke up late this morning. This is the first thing I saw outside the parlor windows. Not a bad start for a new year. Wishing all a happier one than any of us...
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December 23, 2003

tinseltree


untitled (Berry Street, December 22)...
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December 16, 2003

got security?


West 27th Street, December 12, 2003...
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December 7, 2003

wrapped Chesnut


Near ecstasy [the image is of our wonderful new Fritz Chesnut drawing, before it was unwrapped today]...
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snow roof


just outside the window, early this afternoon...
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December 4, 2003

Metropolitan Avenue deli, Williamsburg


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December 1, 2003

security


Bedford Avenue L platform, Williamsburg This mysterious, newly-installed, booth, which sits in the middle of the platform, confounding safe passage for actual people, was deserted last night, as it has been every time I have passed around it....
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November 16, 2003

from the Empire State Building tonight


(New York's Mulholland Drive)...
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skaters at Rockefeller Center today


By now you might have guessed that we had guests from out of town this weekend....
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sailing to Staten Island on Friday


But neither of us landed yesterday. This time we just went for the glorious ride, each with his own relatives....
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November 11, 2003

untitled


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November 8, 2003

greenmarket (bartlett pears)


Looks like this may be the last of the greenmarket images. The season's moving on and there should be a freeze tonight, even in Chelsea....
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November 7, 2003

greenmarket (lemongrass)


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November 6, 2003

greenmarket (late radishes)


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November 5, 2003

greenmarket (buckwheat sprouts)


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November 4, 2003

greenmarket (three lettuces)


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November 3, 2003

greenmarket (mustard greens)


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November 2, 2003

greenmarket (winter squash mix)


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November 1, 2003

greenmarket (collard greens)


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October 31, 2003

greenmarket (pumpkins)


before...
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October 30, 2003

greenmarket (flowering kale)


Well, it's almost edible....
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October 29, 2003

greenmarket (brussels sprouts)


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October 28, 2003

greenmarket (purple broccoli)


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October 27, 2003

greenmarket (spaghetti squash)


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October 26, 2003

greenmarket (red onions)


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October 25, 2003

greenmarket (rutabaga)


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October 24, 2003

greenmarket (apartment-size pumpkins)


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October 23, 2003

greenmarket (gourds)


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October 22, 2003

greenmarket (pumpkin-like gourds)


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October 21, 2003

greenmarket (northern spy apples)


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October 20, 2003

greenmarket (ginger gold apples)


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October 19, 2003

greenmarket (broccoli rabe)


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October 18, 2003

greenmarket (blue hubbard squash)


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October 17, 2003

greenmarket (sweet potatoes)


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October 16, 2003

greenmarket (broccoli)


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October 15, 2003

greenmarket (freckled red apples)


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October 14, 2003

greenmarket (puntarelle)


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October 13, 2003

greenmarket (winter squash)


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October 12, 2003

greenmarket (lima beans)


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October 11, 2003

greenmarket (banana peppers)


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October 10, 2003

greenmarket (red peppers)


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October 9, 2003

greenmarket (cauliflower)


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October 8, 2003

greenmarket (special radishes)


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October 6, 2003

greenmarket (garden peach tomatoes)


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October 5, 2003

greenmarket (three pears)


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October 4, 2003

greenmarket (potatoes)


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October 3, 2003

greenmarket (apples)


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October 2, 2003

greenmarket (purple plums)


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October 1, 2003

greenmarket (pears)


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September 30, 2003

greenmarket (seckel pears)


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September 29, 2003

greenmarket (amaranth)


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September 28, 2003

greenmarket (green apples)


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September 27, 2003

greenmarket (yellow tomatoes)


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September 26, 2003

greenmarket (black radishes)


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September 25, 2003

post-gothic tower


Grace Church, lower Broadway, this week Wait, could it . . . uh, is it, uh, the French flag?...
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greenmarket (heirloom tomatoes)


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greenmarket (parsnips)


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greenmarket (celery root)


[three greenmarket images in a row, to catch up]...
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September 22, 2003

greenmarket (red radishes)


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September 21, 2003

greenmarket (corn)


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September 20, 2003

greenmarket (cabbage)


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September 19, 2003

greenmarket (squash - butternut)


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September 18, 2003

greenmarket (squash of indeterminate kind)


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September 17, 2003

greenmarket (cantaloupe)


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September 16, 2003

greenmarket (summer squash)


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September 15, 2003

greenmarket (patty pan squash)


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September 14, 2003

greenmarket (onions)


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September 13, 2003

greenmarket (garlic)


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September 12, 2003

greenmarket (cucumbers)


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September 11, 2003

greenmarket (elderberries)


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September 10, 2003

grenmarket (chilli peppers)


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September 9, 2003

greenmarket (golden apples)


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September 8, 2003

greenmarket (peppers)


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September 7, 2003

untitled (crossing lights down)


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greenmarket (eggplant)


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September 6, 2003

greenmarket (beans)


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September 5, 2003

greenmarket (squash blossoms - male)


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September 4, 2003

greenmarket (tomatillos)


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September 3, 2003

kitchen sink milky way


untitled (suds) 2003 [with due respect to bloggy]...
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greenmarket (corn)


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September 2, 2003

greenmarket (carrots)


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September 1, 2003

greenmarket (potatoes)


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August 31, 2003

greenmarket (peaches)


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August 30, 2003

greenmarket (shallots)


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greenmarket (regular tomatoes)


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August 29, 2003

greenmarket (serious tomatoes)


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July 20, 2003

study in green


Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, July 20, 2003...
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February 19, 2003

Monday in the Park with Winter


Cardinal and his court The lake at rest Barry as Russian poet...
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January 25, 2003

Salvation Army Store


The image is very sad at first, especially if you know there were actually two "Bridal Keepsake" boxes in the windows of the Salvation Army store today. I prefer to think of these boxes as images of liberation, and...
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November 1, 2002

pretty in Central Park rally


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