NEW YORK NEW YORK – I ran into a moment of lovely light on East 96th Street. Captured with my Ricoh GRD IV.
On this day one year ago: Henry Moore at Columbia.
Friday November 18, 2011
Thursday November 17, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Back home. I carried my little Ricoh GRD IV through the day, catching autumn foliage ending up on the sidewalk, and a new installation at Lever House, a salt water aquarium and plants by Paula Hayes. Very cool. Worth a look.
On this day last year: on the Acela.
Wednesday November 16, 2011
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – A Boston-themed date. I find myself in Boston taking a walk at sunrise with my little Ricoh GRD IV. Not an ideal camera for sunrises but there is a small voice in my head that urges me to violate the “horses for courses” rule. Here’s Boston Harbor:
On this day last year: wing of the Boston Shuttle. I was . . . on my way to Boston.
Tuesday November 15, 2011
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS – I spent most of the day in meetings with a client in Boston – a client that has a genuinely interesting art collection. One of the issues with photography, particularly digital photography, is that it’s cheap and easy. These are not good characteristics for a fine art medium. Some photographers approach this problem by creating unique prints that can’t be reproduced, infusing them with “objecthood”. Here’s a work by William Hamlin, one of his Window Series. Each print (they are old school chromogenic prints) is woven into a unique object. Interesting and quite beautiful. But they are hanging in a tiny, obscure visitors office in the conference center. Too bad for Hamlin. Taken with my Rocoh GRD IV. I guess you could say that I’ve appropriated Hamlin’s work, with a cheap and easy shot.
I’ve also included an image from a walk before my meetings.
While I was in Boston I missed the opening of an exhibition of portraits by Jemina Kirke (who is actually better known as an actress) at the Skylight Gallery. Here’s a portrait by Jemima of Francesca (our daughter), photographed by Francesca. Jemima clearly owes a debt to Egon Schiele.
On this day one year ago: Helmsley Building straight up. One of my favorite images from the past year.
Monday November 14, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – At the beginning of a very busy week my firm gave a party for me and one of my partners at the Four Seasons Restaurant here. I won’t say, here at least, what the event was celebrating. I carried my Rikoh but was distracted from photography. I managed to take this looking up from the bar before things got into full swing. I’ve included a shot that Francesca took of me speaking just to document that there was a party.
On this day one year ago: Washington Congregational Church.
Sunday November 13, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – We had dinner with some friends at Pino Luongo’s new restaurant, Morso. The “we” in this case is the editorial me; Maria is in Brazil on business. Taken with my ever ready Ricoh GRD IV.
As promised I’m stopping with the self portraits. I’m expecting traffic to skyrocket. That means I’m going back to “On this day one year ago . . .” Too bad that on this day one year ago I did a pretty pedestrian shot out my window. Note that a year ago I was whining about being busy. November is a tough month. Anyway . . . .
On this day one year ago: Out my window.
Saturday November 12, 2011
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I stayed in town this weekend for an number of reasons – the best one of which was a birthday party for Francesca, our daughter, given by some friends. Here they are shot with my Ricoh GRD IV. The on camera flash on this thing isn’t all that bad.
Here’s the last of the self variations that I’m going to post. Here I divided the print plane into quarters and placed a quarter of an image from each of four different times, and blended them.
