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Thomas Hawk

@thomashawk

about 2 months ago

The Chrysler Building is doing all the work in this frame. Everybody goes up the Empire State to look at her. Shot this from the 86th floor at that sliver of evening when the offices are still on and the sky has not given up yet. MetLife on the left. Queensboro stretching out toward Queens. The East River gone black. A few thousand windows doing their own little jobs. I have always thought New York might be the most photogenic city in America. Not just this. Not just the skyline and the night lights. The people down on the street. The restaurants and the bars and the cafes and the parks. Fashion walking right past you like it does not know you have a camera. Street photography has a hometown here whether the rest of the country likes it or not. I remember the first time I ever went to New York. It was after college. I was already working. It was a job assignment. I remember walking through Soho and hearing Whitney Houston bellowing out I Will Always Love You at full strength from a boom box, some guy selling bootleg cassette tapes on the street. I remember running into Michael Richards in a random midtown bar somewhere between 2am and 4am, still amazed that the bars stayed open later than they did in California. When I go to New York I like to walk. Central Park all the way down to Wall Street. I have taken that walk many times. That is the whole trick of this city. You walk and you look and you keep the camera ready. Brooklyn Bridge. The High Line. Then some random little street like Gay Street in the Village that most people blow right past. I have photographed New York more times than I can count and I keep going back for more. For years I said I was going to spend at least one year of my life living here. I used to think I wanted to walk across America from San Francisco to New York documenting the country and then spend a year in the city working on those pictures. I am not sure I will ever do that. I did ride my bicycle across America when I was 15, Oregon to Delaware, and those were the first photographs I ever made with a real camera. Shot Kodak slides on an old Sigma with a zoom lens. New York is a huge part of the America I am trying to put in a box before I am done. The one million photographs. Steel. Neon. Rent. A kid in a good coat on a sidewalk. The whole mess of it lit up against a blue sky that only lasts twenty minutes. I was in New York last month moving my youngest daughter into her first apartment after she graduated college. East Village. So happy she will get to live there even if I never do. I will visit a lot though. If you shoot New York, do not wait for full night. Full night is a postcard. This is the city still clocked in. Go up the Empire State Building. Then get back down on the sidewalk and keep walking.

thomashawk's tweet photo. The Chrysler Building is doing all the work in this frame. Everybody goes up the Empire State to look at her.

Shot this from the 86th floor at that sliver of evening when the offices are still on and the sky has not given up yet. MetLife on the left. Queensboro stretching out toward Queens. The East River gone black. A few thousand windows doing their own little jobs.

I have always thought New York might be the most photogenic city in America. Not just this. Not just the skyline and the night lights. The people down on the street. The restaurants and the bars and the cafes and the parks. Fashion walking right past you like it does not know you have a camera. Street photography has a hometown here whether the rest of the country likes it or not.

I remember the first time I ever went to New York. It was after college. I was already working. It was a job assignment. I remember walking through Soho and hearing Whitney Houston bellowing out I Will Always Love You at full strength from a boom box, some guy selling bootleg cassette tapes on the street. I remember running into Michael Richards in a random midtown bar somewhere between 2am and 4am, still amazed that the bars stayed open later than they did in California.

When I go to New York I like to walk. Central Park all the way down to Wall Street. I have taken that walk many times. That is the whole trick of this city. You walk and you look and you keep the camera ready. Brooklyn Bridge. The High Line. Then some random little street like Gay Street in the Village that most people blow right past.

I have photographed New York more times than I can count and I keep going back for more. For years I said I was going to spend at least one year of my life living here. I used to think I wanted to walk across America from San Francisco to New York documenting the country and then spend a year in the city working on those pictures. I am not sure I will ever do that. I did ride my bicycle across America when I was 15, Oregon to Delaware, and those were the first photographs I ever made with a real camera. Shot Kodak slides on an old Sigma with a zoom lens.

New York is a huge part of the America I am trying to put in a box before I am done. The one million photographs. Steel. Neon. Rent. A kid in a good coat on a sidewalk. The whole mess of it lit up against a blue sky that only lasts twenty minutes.

I was in New York last month moving my youngest daughter into her first apartment after she graduated college. East Village. So happy she will get to live there even if I never do. I will visit a lot though.

If you shoot New York, do not wait for full night. Full night is a postcard. This is the city still clocked in. Go up the Empire State Building. Then get back down on the sidewalk and keep walking.

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