Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've never seen it in person. Your description makes it sound like a great subject for photographs (as do your photographs). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansonia Hotel > Robert - Didn't know this. It's a fascinating building. It was fun > exploring it's niches and filigrees as the sun rose and the shadow > of the building across the street crept down its facade. > > Dick > > >The Ansonia was immortalized by Saul Bellow in his novella Seize the Day. > >The entire novel takes place in and around the Ansonia, and its presence is > >like another character in the story. > > > > > >> The Ansonia on Broadway at 74th was once a famous New York hotel > >> catering primarily to the arts community. Enrico Caruso, Igor > >> Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Florenz Ziegfeld, Theodore Dreiser, and > >> Babe Ruth (an artist of a different stripe, [heh, heh, ;-)]) all > >> called it home at one time or another. Today it is condos. > >> > >> It is typically described as "a 1904 Beaux Arts masterpiece," > >> seemingly dropped into the upper West Side direct from Paris. It is > >> a magnificent sight from the 20th floor of a hotel just across the > >> street. > >> > >> At dawn (M3 40mm Nokton - f1.4 @ 1/60th) > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_34_0223_web > >> > >> > >> Shortly after sunrise (M3 15mm Heliar f5.6 at 1/250th if I remember > >correctly) > >> > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_31A_0187_web > >> > >> This is the bottom half of the negative. The upper half is all sky. > >> I took shot after shot trying to get people into interesting places > >> in that splash of light at street level. New Yorkers on an early > >> Sunday morning are very uncooperative. ;-) Probably should have > >> brought some inflatable people along a la Graham and his ducks and > >> cows. > >> > >> Enjoy! Comments welcome as always. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> > >> Dick > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >