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11th Avenue

11th Avenue
Late-autumn street scene along 11th Avenue, Manhattan.

11th Avenue. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Late-autumn street scene along 11th Avenue, Manhattan.

Many areas of older American cities take on a timeless quality when photographed in black and white. Unless you look closely — see, for example, the vehicles in this scene or some of the markings on the asphalt — it is hard to tell whether the photograph was made in the last week, last decade, or last century. A scene like this one hasn’t really changed that much in a very long time.

I made the photograph while walking along the elevated High Line Park. I have visited this “place” many times, going back to shortly after it opened. (This park is built along an old elevated railway, so it is very long and very narrow.) These days it runs from the new Whitney Museum all the way up to and partially around the Hudson Yards. The elevated rail bed provides fascinating views of the city that are hard to find anywhere else. Here I photographed from a section of the park that crosses 11th Avenue.


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11th Avenue

11th Avenue
Looking down 11th Avenue from the High Line Park

11th Avenue. New York City. December 28, 2015. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Looking down 11th Avenue from the High Line Park

Expect a wide-ranging mix of photographic subjects over the next few weeks. There will certainly be more from the San Joaquin Valley, both landscapes and wildlife. I still have some older photographs from the Sierra and other locations in the queue. This photograph is part of an inevitable series of “urban landscapes” and urban/street photography from our recent visit to New York City. The latter is a favorite subject of mine. As a west-coaster, I only get to photographer there perhaps once per year, but when I do I like to take full advantage of the opportunity.

This photograph feels like an urban landscape to me. On the final day of our trip we found time to revisit the High Line Park, a place that has a different feeling at each time of year. The park, for those who may not already know, runs along the path of an old elevated railroad bed on the west side of Manhattan. It has become an incredibly popular place, but with good reason, as it winds through all sorts of interesting urban terrain a few stories above street level. A new section has opened since our last visit, and it extends the path northward to and past the Hudson Yards area. This photograph was made along the new section where it crosses 11th Avenue, and where I saw the same beautiful light that might stop me in my tracks anywhere.


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High Line Park and IAC Building

High Line Park and IAC Building
High Line Park and IAC Building

High Line Park and IAC Building. New York, New York. August 14, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

People taking a summer evening walk along the High Line Elevated Park in Chelsea with the IAC Building and the 100 11th Building in the background, New York City.

I only spent a short time on one evening walking along the High Line Park, but I certainly found it to be an intriguing place, and one that I intend to visit again. I first stopped to photograph this spot when I saw a couple of musicians performing on the bench just beyond the people walking and standing in the foreground. But the “urban landscape” of buildings beyond is obviously very striking, especially in the evening light. I cannot identify all of the buildings in the photograph – my first attempts to find them via Google maps failed because the buildings are so new that you only see empty space and construction sites there. I finally determined that the building on the left with the “swooping” lines is the IAC Building, designed by Frank Gehry – which is obvious in retrospect. The taller building in the background (which I had taken to calling the “Mondrian building”) is the “100 11th” building, designed by a French architect named Nouvel.

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