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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Seventy Eight: Figures in the sky – a public art exhibition > Empire State Building, New York City, New York, 2010
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11-JUL-2010

Empire State Building, New York City, New York, 2010

The Gormley figure is very small, compared to the vast structure behind it that was formerly the tallest building on earth. The figure stands on a setback overlooking Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. It seems lost, being so many blocks away from the rest of its fiberglass companions. It is a great surprise -- many passersby miss it, since it appears entirely out of context. I make it fairly obscure here as well, by blending it in to a field of windows on all sides.

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Phil Douglis08-Aug-2010 20:19
Thanks, Rose -- I took many different images of this scene, positioning the figure in different parts of the image, and zooming the frame as well. This is a full telephoto zoom at 400mm, and it worked the best with the figure placed so that it related to the other two setbacks at left.
sunlightpix08-Aug-2010 19:05
Great sense of scale; man is diminutive. Wonderful composition!
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