Aus dem Grootstad & Co/From a Major City & Co. #5

Een Grootstad (Duits Großstadt) is een stad met meer dan 100.000 inwoners.(A major city (German: Großstadt) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants)

New York (Chelsea) 7 mei 2011.(2011 may 7^th)

City Travellers

 

The Photographer as a Peeping Tom

New York Subway. May 2011.

Travel Photo ##7

Times Square New York. In better days. Photo: 2011/5/6 .

Nieuw boek (New book)

Last year I was in New York, because of the exhibition ”Dutch Delight”, as regular followers of my weblog may know. I spent quite a lot of time with the set-up and the lay-out of the show (together with Dutch and Agniet) and some more organizational affairs. Still I had plenty of time to discover New York (and Washington for a day) and make lot of photographs.

At last I made a final selection of the image and completed a pod book: “NYC fragments & Some more”. You can see a preview here.
The photo you see today was made in my hotel room. Every night at 2.00 am the garbage was collected right under my room window. Nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed my stay, also because of the warm welcome by Kenneth & June and Leendert.
Photo: New York Cidela Bed&Breakfast 11/05/10 10.47 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (86) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (86))

Meanwhile I am working on a book about my trip to New York last spring. It will be ready in about 3 weeks. Maybe a nice Christmas present?
Making a book is a nice hell of job.
The photograph today is certainly one to be used. I went to Coney Island the 2nd full day. I found the atmosphere a bit shabby. Lost glory.
Photograph: Coney Island. 11/05/07. 1.03 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (85) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (85))

A good photograph has, in my humble opinion, a reality that is some kind of fiction: like novels in which one can still recognize an original, ever existing world, but where the content is fiction. Every resemblance with real persons or a real situation is sheer coincidence.
Photo: New York-Staten Island. 11/05/06. 4.50 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (82) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (82))

If surrealism can be defined as a combination of several realities resulting into a new reality, photography is a perfect tool to create surrealism.
New York (Rooseveld Tramway). 2011/5/17. 9.25

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (73) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (73))

I love to play with reflections of the street life and the rendition of a shopping window. It can result into a slightly surreal photograph, which I love to make.
Something else. These are the last pictures for a while. I’m off to give a workshop of a week at Buitenkunst and when I come back the Bijsterbosch Family is leaving for a holiday to Greece.
I’ll be back at this blog in about three weeks.
Thanks for all the nice comments and stay tuned.
& have a beautiful summer, you all!
Up: Hasselt (Belgium) 11/7/7. 1.05 pm
Under: New York. 5th Avenue. 11/5/15 0.13 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (72) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (72))

During my photographic life I gradually found out that to me the photograph is more important than its subject. In other words the world that is represented in the photograph is the main issue, not the moment and place where the picture was taken.
I realize there is some paradox in this. I always give the viewer of this blog information about time and place of the actual picture taking.
The tension that sometimes exists between the world of the photograph and the reality of the world where and when the photograph was taken often creates a smaller or bigger surrealistic effect. I love that a lot.
Up: Brussels (B) 2011/4/24 4.57 pm
Under: New York (USA) 2011/5/13 9.50 am

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (71) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (71))

Today is the 3rd Tuesday of the month. That means “Photographers Evening” time.. It is an informal gathering of photographers and people in love with photography, taking place in the typical Amsterdam pub of Kalkhoven. I’m coming there for about a decade.
Tonight is a special, a kind of reunion of those who went to New York for the exhibition of ”Dutch Delight” which took place from 11th until 15Th of May this year.
Therefore a photograph I made at Times Square New York.
New York. Times Square. 11/5/17. 0.43 pm.

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (68) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (68))

Yesterday I processed my last picture of the trip to New York. It was one of the first I actually took. I was in Manhattan for about one hour and overwhelmed by the way the late sunlight struck down through the narrow streets of the Financial District.
Watch the person in his yellow-brown coat at the top of my shadow , it’s almost mimicry.
New York. Bowling Green. 11/5/5. 7.25 pm

Selfportrait 126

Picture taken 5 minutes before I left the room where I slept during my 13 night stay in NYC.
Ahead of me a 13 hours journey going home.
Photograph: 05/1/2011, New York Cidela B&B, 10.32 am.

New York Subway

Someone’s got the subwayblues & it’s not me….
Foto: New York, subway red 1 uptown, 10.05 uur. 15/5/2011

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (67)

New York ligt op de geografische hoogte van Barcelona. Dat betekent dat in mei de zon rond het middaguur hoog aan de hemel staat. Gevolg: grote, massieve schaduwvlekken onder de bladerdekken van de bomen in Central Park op zondagmorgen.
Foto boven: New York, Central Park. 8/5/11. 10.53 uur
Foto onder: New York, Central Park. 8/5/11. 11.05 uur

Zelfportret # 125

Terug in Nederland zijn er de foto’s en de herinnering aan een prachtige reis in een fascinerende stad van duizenden gezichten.
Foto: New York. 72th street West. 14/05/2011. 13.59 uur.

Farewell to NYC

Morgen vertrek ik uit Nieuw York. Tja, ik kon de verleiding niet weer staan om een zelfportret met een deel van de skyline van Manhattan te maken. Weggaan stemt melancholiek, over 24 uur thuis te zijn stemt zeer vreugdevol: Het weerzien met de geliefden!
Iedereen overigens heel erg bedankt voor de reacties op de New York foto’s. Er komen er nog meer!
Foto: New York, Rooseveld Island. 17/5/2011. 21.44 uur.

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (65)

Uit de Subway wordt soms veel stoom naar boven geblazen. Als de atmosfeer dan vochtig is zoals vandaag, is New York een plaats om surrealistische beelden te maken.
Foto: New York/ColumbiaCircle. 15/05/2011 14.03 uur

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (64)

Ik sta zo’n beetje op de uiterste zuidpunt van Manhattan, waar ruim 400 jaar geleden landgenoten aanspoelden om Nieuw Amsterdam op te richten. Het is nu de terminal van de veerboot naar Staten Island.
Foto: New York, South Ferry, 14/10/2011. 11.10 uur.

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De verleiding was te groot. Ik had eigenlijk geen taxis in beeld willen hebben, maar toen ik deze schijnbare racepartij zag in combinatie met het gele stoplicht, tja. Moholy-Nagy was here!
Foto: NewYork/ Chelsea. 13/5/2011. 12.04 uur

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (62)

Het was gisteren heet in de stad. Keihard licht, geen wind waardoor de uitlaatgassen tussen de gebouwen bleven hangen. Benauwend. Daarom ging nog een keer naar Coney Island. Daar was het frisjes en het strand was vrijwel uitgestorven. Beetje desolaat sfeertje.
Foto: New York, Coney Island. 12/5/11. 14.09 uur.