• Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
    2·
    8 days ago

    Captured with Phase One XT IQ4-150 and the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR-Digraron, a sharp ultrawide angle that accommodated just enough shift movement to compose this frame. Captured from the now-shuttered Gramercy Park hotel, on a fittingly grey and joyless winter day.

    The wide angle and high, single point perspective emphasize the dominance of the private, locked park’s local footprint. Rather than creating public space, it seems to elbow us aside.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
      2·
      8 days ago

      Gramercy Park, which sits between Lexington Avenue and Irving Place between 20th and 21st Streets in Manhattan, is a locked private park. At the center of the park is a statute of Edwin Booth, a 19th century actor today best known for being the less murderous sibling of John Wilkes Booth.

      Only residents of the surrounding buildings are issued keys. There are a lot of rules, including against photography, so this is as close as we get. If you have to ask, you don’t belong. Go away.

      • Alec Perkins@perkins.pub
        2·
        8 days ago

        @mattblaze@federate.social one of my favorite factoids is Edwin Booth saved the life of Robert Todd Lincoln in Jersey City only months before the assassination.