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Photographs: New York City, Photographs: People, Photographs: Urban/Street

People on Descending Escalator, MoMA

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People on Descending Escalator, MoMA
People on Descending Escalator, MoMA

People on Descending Escalator, MoMA. New York City. August 18, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A group of people on the “down escalator” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

I couldn’t resist the idea of photographing the steady stream of distracted people coming down this escalator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I employed a technique that I often use when shooting on the street, namely to find an interesting structural subject (in this case, the escalator) and then wait for the right person or people to occupy the frame. I made a series of photographs of people on this escalator, and ended up liking this one the most. There are a number of specific things about the people in the scene that attract my attention, but I’ll let you discover them on your own, should you be so inclined.

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects

Walls and Portal, MoMA

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Walls and Portal, MoMA
Walls and Portal, MoMA

Walls and Portal, MoMA. New York City. August 18, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A portal near the convergence of two white walls, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

While walking on an upstairs floor in a central area of the New York Museum of Modern Art, I was in an area with stark white walls and portals to an inner “well” – the edges of the portals were treated in warmer tones of paint.

Since the image is minimalist, I’ll make my description minimalist as well.

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: New York City, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Courtyard, MOMA

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Courtyard, MOMA

Courtyard, MOMA. New York City. August 18, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Black and white photograph of the courtyard of the New York’s Museum of Modern Art, photographed through windows of the museum.

Sticking with the urban New York theme for at least one more day, this is another photograph shot from a window in the Museum of Modern Art and looking out over a courtyard and architecturally busy urban scene combining older brick and stone facade buildings with more modern and taller buildings.

There are subtle (or perhaps not so subtle?) reflections in the window through which I made the photograph. These reflections are one reason, though not the only one, that I decided to render this as a black and white image – some of the shadows had colorations that did not work for me. To my mind, this photograph is related to some others that I’ve made featuring views of and through the windows of modern buildings, including this photograph from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: San Francisco, Photographs: Structures and Objects, Photographs: Urban/Street

Ferry Building and Embarcadero Center Building

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Ferry Building and Embarcadero Center Building
Ferry Building and Embarcadero Center Building

Ferry Building and Embarcadero Center Building. San Francisco, California. July 12, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Embarcadero Center and Ferry Building near the San Francisco waterfront on a foggy morning.

This is another photograph that I’ve been sitting on for a while – first while it languished as a raw file between last July and early this year when I did my annual review of the previous year’s images, and then after post-processing as I posted photographs from Death Valley, the Sierra, and the coast. It has been sitting on my desktop long enough.

The photograph was made from the dock side of the San Francisco Ferry Building, looking back over the building past its iconic tower towards some of the modern buildings in the Financial District. The light was very interesting – there was still, obviously, the usual summer morning overcast where I was. However, behind me and out over the Bay the clouds were breaking up and the light was starting to come in at a low angle from off the bay, providing a glow to features like the windows of the tall background building.

This photo was made while walking streets in San Francisco and shooting mostly “old school” with just a 50mm prime.

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