The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photographing a Very Large Museum
A very large art museum in New York, with a monumental Great Hall, grand stairs and collections spanning many wings.
The New York Public Library: Photographing a Building Made of Marble
A 1911 Beaux-Arts library on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, with marble halls, grand staircases and the lions outside.
The American Museum of Natural History: Making the Ocean Life Frame
A museum on Central Park West whose Milstein Hall of Ocean Life is darkened, double-height, and has a blue whale overhead.
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn: A Walk Through the Building
An 1897 Beaux-Arts museum with a glass entrance bolted on a century later — two opposite kinds of light in one building.
The Queens Museum, Queens: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A museum holding a scale model of all five boroughs — which offers a photograph available nowhere else.
The Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn: Field Notes, Problem and Solution
A converted 1901 factory on the Williamsburg waterfront — where the skyline is backlit at sunset, not front-lit.
The Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island: The Light Through the Day
A row of Greek Revival temple fronts facing a working shipping channel — permanently in soft light, which is the whole point.