Seen in Grand Central.
New York City Subway, 1946 by Stanley Kubrick (via)
“I wanted to retain the mood of the subway, so I used natural light,” he said. People who ride the subway late at night are less inhibited than those who ride by day. Couples make love openly, drunks sleep on the floor and other unusual activities take place late at night. To make pictures in the off-guard manner he wanted to, Kubrick rode the subway for two weeks. Half of his riding was done between midnight and six a.m. Regardless of what he saw he couldn’t shoot until the car stopped in a station because of the motion and vibration of the moving train. Often, just as he was ready to shoot, someone walked in front of the camera, or his subject left the train.” -Stanley Kubrick
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Source: mcnyblog.org
Highlights: Reading-Riders Through the Window
1. “Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time,” by Michio Kaku 2. “Rabbit, Run,” by John Updike 3. “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro 4. “American Gods,” by Neil Gaiman 5. “Representing and Intervening,” by Ian Hacking 6. “The Art of Loving,” by Erich Fromm 7. “A Drink Before the War,” by Dennis Lehane 8. “Spiritual Writings,” by Leo Tolstoy 9. “The Devil in the White City,” by Erik Larson and “Bite Me,” by Christopher Moore 10. “Jakob von Gunten,” by Robert Walser
The City Approaches (by Joshua Gunther)
“U is for Undertow”, by Sue Grafton
She waltzed into my frame and livened things up. I took another shot a second later but things were too quiet without her.
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