More of the Guggenheim

[mbarrick]

Outside, from the north.




I really enjoyed how the different work lights and ambient natural light made the entirely white walls appear different colours as they were setting up the next show.


This is looking up a stairwell. As I was taking this another visitor, a New Yorker, mentioned that she had also photographed the same stairwell. Good to know I'm not the only freak that goes to museums and photographs the architecture.

Comments

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

I can't help but notice that there is no art , scultures - or
anything on the walls - wasn't ths supposed to be an art gallery (don't get me wrong - beautiful architecture - but where is the art?)

As far as the architecture goes... put that building on a mountain top .. throw in some lightning ... and there you go -
my base for world domination.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

They were between shows in this room (which is the main gallery) and were in the process of setting up for the next show. Note the crates, the cherry picker, the people painting the walls, et al., which is also why the lighting was so funky. They were working from the top down (the main gallery in the Guggenheim is a spiral) and the true-white lights are only properly on near the top, the very top is naturally lit, lower down is a mixture of the 3500K lights and ordinary incandescants, so it is yellower. Lower still and it is just incandescants so it is quite orange (you can see some of the work lights on stands in the second picture). The very bottom, however, is naturally lit again.

The gallery did have artwork in other rooms, but of course you aren't allow to photograph that. IMHO this was ideal. Admission was half price, the art on display in the other rooms, including the permanent collection, was brilliant, and I was free to photograph the architecture in the main gallery that the building is famous for.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

aaahhh... okay then ....

Actually - I love the architecture in the Vag central shaft
(with the winding stairs) and always wanted to photgraph it
but alas - no cameras allowed.


cary on...

[sycochk.livejournal.com]

looking at the first pic with the newyork traffic reminded me of the novel NewYork methods of letting other cars know when you are turning, did you notice that they dont use turn signals but their cars will be turned in a crooked way at the stop lite, and so on down behind the first car, so what you get is a bunch of cars pointed in different directions in a single file. fucking weird!! oh, and pedestrians dont obey traffic lights either, did you see how they all just cross the street whenever there seems to be a few seconds of non traffic, which results in the cars having to slam on their breaks?

(J-)Walking in NYC

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yup, I definitely noticed that, and got the hang of it pretty quick. All the one-way streets make it easy to j-walk. On my first trip, when I met up with a friend in in the Village after having been in Manhattan for a few days already I just walked across Broadway when I saw her coming on the other side of the street. First thing she said to me was, "J-walking like a local already, I see."

Not j-walking is one of the ways New Yorkers spot tourists. Despite the fact that I was constantly carrying my camera the fact that Elaine and I were dressed in black and absolutely ignoring the traffic signals got us mistaken for locals several times. More than once we got asked for directions, and weirdly enough we were, without exception, able to give them.