31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024
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Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.
This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making architectural photography be something of an exercise in surveying.
Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.
The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol’s “Factory” studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.
@mattblaze@federate.social This is just spectacular! I can’t imagine what it took to get that picture lined up and so early in the morning. Last week I posted a picture of just the bank of metropolis building, it’s sad to see it empty for so long. I often have physical therapy in one of those buildings and like to take photos around Union Square Park
