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Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube, New York city, in front of 140 Broadway, with my two little twins, Lina and iLiès
I have made many experimental versions of “tsukubai,” including this one for this garden. The water is introduced from within and recirculated. What is created is a fountain, contrary to the traditional “tsukubai.”
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Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube, lower Broadway, Manhattan NY.
(I didn't notice the matching shirt until I got home.)
My agenda today is actually here at 140 Broadway, where two well-known "Wall Street" outdoor art displays are located. This "Red Cube", technically a rhombohedron rather than a cube, was designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1967, just when the office building seen behind, was completed.
The Red Cube is rather popular with tourists, though the thousands of bankers, lawyers, accountants, traders and office workers who come across it everyday seem rather indifferent about it.
New York is a great place for walkin-around photography. I always suggest using a wide-angle lens to shoot buildings and architecture. Now, many people complain that it can distort lines and change the angles. This does not really bother me so much, because I think many people can take this wide-angle view in their mind and then re-calibrate everything to make sense. For example, that black building is obviously a square building with right angles, even though the top of it seems to have a 110 degree corner. Honestly, I don't think 95% of viewers even think about it. They just see the photo and it "feels good" to them. I often have professional photographers come comment on my wide-angle architecture shots when the walls are not 90 degrees perpendicular to other objects. My response is, I'm sure to them, quite childish, since I usually say, "Who cares?"
Besides, using a wide-angle lens is usually the only way to get the whole scene inside of a rectangle, which, itself, is an arbitrary viewing shape.
from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
Black Sun by Isamu Noguchi at Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington.
Photographed with a Ricoh Diacord L with a Rikenon f/3.5 8cm lens using a red filter. The film is Fomapan 100 developed in Rodinal 1:50.
Sculpture "Red Cube" by Isama Noguchi in front of the Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, BBH, bank building, Financial District, NYC
Some autumn feel with this close up of The Well at the Noguchi Museum in Astoria during OHNY Weekend.
Vibrant geometry in the daylight bustle of NYC. Captured this bold red sculpture amidst the flowing traffic and pedestrians on a crisp afternoon.
This seems to be the color scheme the Trinity and US Realty Buildings will have through Thanksgiving. The green and yellow colors alternate places during the night.
I've been walking to work this week and took my camera with shift lens to take some shots along the way.
Water Table is a 1968 sculpture by Isamu Noguchi.
Also on display in this photo, Rain Mountain on the left and Entasis of a Pentagonal Helix by the left side of the window. As Trish Mayo pointed out below, the tall steel sculpture on the right is is "Pylon" from 1958.
Through the hole in the Red Cube (1967) by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) we can see the neo-classical Equitable Building reflected in the windows of the tower with the imaginative name “140 Broadway”, formerly known as “Marine Midland Building ” and “HSBC Building”. Considering the way these buildings — or the companies that own them — keep changing hands, naming the buildings after their street address is indeed the safer way to go...😄