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Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T.
What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline…so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work. And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does, in a way, the same thing to one's reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around.
-Anish Kapoor
While the outside of the Chicago Bean reflects the skyline and surrounding plaza, the inside gives a kaleidoscopic image of all the people milling about beneath. At first glance, this reminded me of a giant MRI scan of the body.
Cloudgate, looking more like a MRI or CAT scan
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I'm sure there are other things to shoot and post from Chicago but I just can't get enough of that thing! lol
The Chicago Cloudgate, a stunning work by the British of Indian heritage, Anish Kapoor. This centerpiece is also nicknamed "The Bean". It is part of the park complex known as Millenium Park and the greater Grant Park
El "Chicago Cloudgate, una obra impresionante del Indo-Britanico Anish Kapoor. Esta obra es also conocida como "El Frijol" por su forma. Forma parte del complejo conocido como Millenium Park y el Grant Park
Flying saucer during the middle of Earth Hour 2010.
More pictures of Chicago during the Earth Hour at My Chicago Photowalks.
My fifth feature on the Flickr blog here.
This is a long exposure taken at Cloudgate aka 'The Bean' from our holiday in Chicago back in August. As anyone will know places like this are mobbed so my solution other than going very early in the morning when there were no people was to use a strong ND filter to capture a surreal image with ghostly people standing gawping at the sculpture. If you look closely throughout the 6 minute exposure there were lots of people standing across the scene.
Tech Info...
Sony a7ii
Canon 16-35 f4IS via Commlite E Mount - EF adapter
16mm
f8
ISO 100
305 seconds
Filters...
Formatt Firecrest 16 stop
Processing Info...
I opened the RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw and made some basic lens corrections and other minor adjustments.
Next I imported the file into PS CS6 and began altering the crop slightly. I had considered altering the perspective but it wasnt possible without making The Bean look stupid and I actually like the converging buildings.
Once I was happy with that I opened the file in Silver Efex Pro 2 to create my mono conversion. I chose a preset before with the siders until I was happy. Back into PS I decided to use some Luminosity Masks to enhance the various tones throughout the shot and to add some contrast.
On top of that I also used a 50% Grey layer to do some dodging & burning to further add more punch and contrast.
Finally I saved the file in various sizes and formats before uploading to the web.
The Bean is what everyone calls it, but it's real name is Cloudgate. I'm sure you will agree The Bean is a much better name.
I've always wanted to got there and now I have. If you ever go to Chicago you must go there.
Cloud Gate, the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park, designed by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, it measures 33 by 66 by 42 feet and weighs 100 tons. The "Bean" as it is sometimes called, consists of 168 stainless steel plates welded together and a highly polished exterior surface that has no visible seams.
Cloud Gate - sculpture in Millennium Park by Anish Kapoor shaped like a giant bean, so it's also called The Bean by us locals.
While watching the snow fall outside my window I am reflecting on a great time spent photographing the architecture of Chicago
Sculpture by Anish Kapoor
Millennium Park
Chicago, IL
November 9th, 2020
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Scanned from Ilford Delta 400
(shot with Orange filter at ISO-100)
Chicago, IL
November 2020
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Scanned from Fuji Superia XTRA 400
(shot at ISO-100 and expired from Sept-2009)
Chicago, IL
April 2021
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Millennium Park Chicago The much photographed Bean, officially known as Cloudgate is scheduled to officially "re-open" tomorrow. I'm not sure what that means except that hopefully they are finished working on it. It's been there for 2 years and seems as though it is always being worked on and scaffolding often spoils the picture.
I recently got an email from the artist's lawyers demanding that I stop selling t-shirts with a picture of this sculpture on it. He "retains" the copyright.
He said: "My era is over"
A final performance for Lin Hwai-min; the founder of Taiwan dance troupe Cloud Gate Theater were presented in front of the National Theater and Concert Hall, at the evening on Saturday (July 27). As he is going to step down as company’s artistic director at the end of 2019.
他說：我的時代已經結束。
歷史的一刻，林懷民退休前，最後一次在兩廳院領導雲門戶外公演 。
Taipei, Taiwan,
2019/7/27
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took my wife's sister, Liza and her husband, Brendo around the Millenium Park for a shoot-around...they currently live in San Diego but soon will be moving to Washington DC this coming summer...anyway, it was an awesome November day to be out shooting with clear skies and comfortable temps....so this was just another one of the many Bean shots i took that day....pls. View On Black