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an afternoon photographing building ornament in new york city

i flew to nyc to document the woolworth building's upper floor condo conversion and exterior ornament restoration, but my adhd continually redirects my efforts toward editing other images of captivating building ornament (e.g., edelmann's dexter bld. facade). i have edited some woolworth, but need to ramp it up soon - especially the ornament fabricated by winslow brothers. 

the woolworth project and the circumstances surrounding the visit, will be addressed in a future blog post once i sort through and edit the images taken. at this point, i shot around 3100 images, ranging from old rivet heads to the basement's long-abandoned pool. i focused on the terra cotta facade, including the integration of boston valley's nearly four thousand pieces recreated pieces. however, i was equally interested in the building's steel frame - i've been researching the materials and methods used in new york versus chicago skyscrapers of the late and early 20th century - so recording the placement of exposed vertical columns and horizontal i-beams was an added bonus. subsequent posts will hopefully address these interests captured through photography.  

 

the images below represent a small fraction of images i shot during my brief stay in new york city earlier last week. after extensively documenting the woolworth and decker buildings (inside and out), i felt intensely liberated to wander the streets and shoot building ornament that simply attracted my mind's eye. having no rules, restrictions, or time constraints allowed me to simply get lost in new york's past - represented by a vaast collection of extant buildings dressed in visually striking ornament. 

unfortunately, the aforementioned experience was short-lived...  having been gone a few days, i feel this immense pressure (self-induced) to hit the streets of chicago and shoot houses and buildings on a seemingly endless list, fueled by this maniacal obsession to document what remains of late 19th and early 20th chicago.

 

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