Photo Panoramas of Mid-Town Manhattan
So far, about 105 Avenue-length blocks have been scanned and merged; about 275 Avenue-length blocks and 600 Street-length blocks still remain to assembled.
Where did these pictures come from?
During the Summer of 1982, photographer Dan Weeks (me) dreamed of creating a unique photographic portrait of New York City, that would become a visual index of the city's storefronts, and document the minutia of detail in the city. With the help of Deborah Daly and Jaime Horowitz, they gathered a crew of city-photo-enthusiasts: Ben Porter, Peter McNally, Claude Rie, Martin Axon, Mitch Barutha and others, who drove up and down the streets and avenues of New York to expose more than 250,000 35mm Tri-X Pan negatives, using a Nikon F with a 250 frame motorized back, mounted on the roof of Dan's VW van. These negatives were then developed and have since been in storage. Today the negatives are being scanned and assembled into the block long photographs that were originally intended, many to be seen for the first time. . . . .
Where did these pictures come from?
During the Summer of 1982, photographer Dan Weeks (me) dreamed of creating a unique photographic portrait of New York City, that would become a visual index of the city's storefronts, and document the minutia of detail in the city. With the help of Deborah Daly and Jaime Horowitz, they gathered a crew of city-photo-enthusiasts: Ben Porter, Peter McNally, Claude Rie, Martin Axon, Mitch Barutha and others, who drove up and down the streets and avenues of New York to expose more than 250,000 35mm Tri-X Pan negatives, using a Nikon F with a 250 frame motorized back, mounted on the roof of Dan's VW van. These negatives were then developed and have since been in storage. Today the negatives are being scanned and assembled into the block long photographs that were originally intended, many to be seen for the first time. . . . .
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