OCR Text |
Show i When North Appears SouthuheN I . wmffiWitSteww " i i - ;k , A - v i -- V " sfei." S ' C UCU was the position adopted by the photographer when snapping snap-ping this remarkable picture, that many of the buildings forming part of Gotham's serried skyline, appear to be south of other structures which are in reality north of them. The picture was made from the top of Ward hill, in Staten island, in the borough of Richmond, N. Y., and might be said to misrepresent the positions of the various buildings, if It did not give one an intimate "closeup" of the nine most Important Impor-tant miles of skyline of the greatest city in the world, extending from the southernmost tip of the Battery, at the right, to the li. C. A. building a the left, In Rockefeller Center. Three mighty structures, of all those shown, form a perfect example exam-ple of how the eye is deceived by the distance at which the camera was located. The Metropolitan Life Insurance company tower; the Empire Em-pire State building, tallest in the world; and the Chrysler building, appear in wholly "incorrect" positions. posi-tions. Of the three, the Metropolitan, Metropol-itan, situated at Twenty-third street, is the farthest south. Then we have the Empire State building, on Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue; and lastly, the Chrysler building, on Fortv-second street. In the picture the Empire State building appears to be farthest north; the Chrysler building farthest south; and the Metropolitan tower between these two giants of modern architectural art. This unusually clear photograph was made possible only by the use of the haze-puncturing Infra-red plates and filters. The enormous, specially designed lens permits the photographer to cover nine miles of terrain, from Fiftieth street, to the Battery, and from Ward hill to the farthest point in the picture, which is the RCA. building. |