The Chrysler Building.....

[CMoore]

... by David Stravitz.
The back-story is just as fascinating as the book itself is.
The author was an amateur photographer that picked up the hobby a bit later in life.
Circa 1978, a friend tells him about a photog that was going out of business after 35 years.

So Mr Stravitz goes to talk to the man, and buys a few things. He sees some miscellaneous boxes and enquires about them.
"Just some old, 8x10 negatives, nothing you would be interested in"
The business owner was dumping them for the silver money, so Mr Stravitz buys them for that amount i suppose.
When he looked at them in the store, he noticed they were New York, circa 1930.

When he gets home, he sees there are 150, 8x10 negs that show The Chrysler Building being brought out of the ground..!!!
With that find, he was able to put together this fabulous book.
If you like buildings and skyscrapers and NYC................you will LOVE This Book.

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27+Stravitz&s=relevancerank&text=D+Stravitz&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

 

[guangong]

It is a beautiful building. New construction is about how to minimize cost per square foot, and the results are not boring, but ugly. The NYC skyline used to be stunning when driving in from NJ;now has the appearance of jagged, ugly dentures.
After more than 60 yrs, I still walk around looking up like a tourist. Many surprises: buildings capped with Egyptian, Greek, and Gothic temples...the surprises are endless. At ground level, even the doorknobs on some buildings are fascinating.
How long did it take to build, from start to finish? Empire State Building took one years. It takes much longer to pave a few hundred feet of road in NJ.

 

[CMoore]

It is a beautiful building. New construction is about how to minimize cost per square foot, and the results are not boring, but ugly. The NYC skyline used to be stunning when driving in from NJ;now has the appearance of jagged, ugly dentures.
After more than 60 yrs, I still walk around looking up like a tourist. Many surprises: buildings capped with Egyptian, Greek, and Gothic temples...the surprises are endless. At ground level, even the doorknobs on some buildings are fascinating.
How long did it take to build, from start to finish? Empire State Building took one years. It takes much longer to pave a few hundred feet of road in NJ.

60 years for me would be the day i was born.....1960.
Are you old enough to remember The Singer Building and Penn Station.?

Your comment about doorknobs made me smile.
I was in The Painters Union, San Francisco. So i worked in a lot of the older buildings. And yes, architecture of the past, everything from mailbox slots to doorknobs to elevator indicator lights had a flare for the arts.!

 

[removed account4]

t is a beautiful building. New construction is about how to minimize cost per square foot, and the results are not boring, but ugly. The NYC skyline used to be stunning when driving in from NJ;now has the appearance of jagged, ugly dentures.

couldn't agree more!
building technology and a lot of money has allowed for some really hideous buildings being constructed. ...

 

[guangong]

Wife, daughter and I went to an opening by my friend, the late sculptor Chaim Gross held in a large space on lower Broadway, in the vacinity of the Village-Soho. Daughter was 4 or 5 yrs old. Gross asked her which piece she liked best. She said, “The radiator.” I almost cringed. Gross smiled and gave her a big hug. Seems that his first job as a sculptor was creating designs for the old steam radiators, and the ones in this building were done by him.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Always an interesting shot.

 

[Helge]

Always an interesting shot.
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You worked on that for some time. Very nice!
Absolutely spot on composition, clouds and lighting.
View camera?

 

[bdial]

I was in NY for a couple of weeks a while back for work. My hotel room had a lovely view of the Chrysler building.
Unfortunately I didn't have a tripod along, so I didn't get an analog night view, this one is digital;

 

[CMoore]

I was in NY for a couple of weeks a while back for work. My hotel room had a lovely view of the Chrysler building.
Unfortunately I didn't have a tripod along, so I didn't get an analog night view, this one is digital;

Art Deco at its finest

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

You worked on that for some time. Very nice!
Absolutely spot on composition, clouds and lighting.
View camera?

No view camera. The lines are converging which is sometimes more dramatic. Taken 15 years ago with a Canon P&S PowerShot S400 edited with LR 3.
Chrysler Building | Alan Klein | Flickr