Guggenheim
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Sony RX100
Anne and I went to New York last weekend to visit friends and spent the morning at the Guggenheim Museum seeing the Picasso Black and White show. It’s an incredible show, well worth seeing if you enjoy Picasso’s work but also worth seeing if you enjoy well-curated shows. The show spans Picasso’s work through many periods: cubism, expressionism, and more.
Neither Anne nor I had been in this museum in quite some time and it’s an incredible space to see a show in, moving chronologically up the spiral. There are a few choke points where a pillar gets in the way (I remember these from my childhood in the museum) but for the most part Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece is a perfect place to see a show like this.
No cameras allowed past the museum’s main floor (you can carry them, just not use them) so my images are from the ground looking up while we were in line to get tickets. Again, the Sony RX100′s huge files show a clarity that the Canon G15 can’t touch although the G15 remains a much more enjoyable camera to use.
Canon Powershot G15
Canon Powershot G15
I like this last one! It is startling what a human form does to an architectural photograph.
This one is great, a kind of yin/yang between the male facing away from the camera with white hair and black clothing and the female facing forward with opposite.
Thanks sheryl. Always interesting to put humans in an architectural photograph, not always the right thing to do but here it worked out well. Tough to find a time when people aren’t leaning over the edge at this museum anyway.