Manhattan Street Corners

Elizabeth Street & Spring Street, Northeast Corner © 2008 Richard Howe

Richard Howe hat sie fotografiert. Die Strassenecken von Manhattan. Nicht nur ein paar davon, nein er hat alle 11000 abgelichtet. Einen kleinen Auschnitt davon zeigt er auf seiner Website und vermittelt so ein Bild von der Vielfalt und Einzigartigkeit New Yorks.

What you might first notice from flipping through these galleries is how comfortingly pedestrian the streets of New York really look: here are old women shopping, bunches of teenagers coming home from school, block after block of undistinguished buildings. There is little Times Square razzle-dazzle in evidence, this is a city of people going about daily life. But then you come across a photograph of something like the vacant building at the corner of Spring and Elizabeth streets that served as a spectacular showcase for graffiti artists and realize that in New York the mundane is pretty wonderful.

Sara Kramer in A Different Stripe: Notes from New York
Review Books Classics, April 7, 2008.