I remember sophomore year in architecture school after taking classes about form, function, space and light I took a studio with a professor who said, it's not really about any of those things.It's about an Idea, he said.
The Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world for forty-one years until it was eclipsed by the World Trade Center. But that doesn't matter because I feel everyone still believes it is the tallest. Everyone knows the building King Kong climbed, or in the movie An Affair to Remember where Deborah Kerr was supposed to meet Cary Grant.
The Empire State Building was probably the first building I photographed when I moved to New York City. Taking the train into the city from Brooklyn every morning for work, it was also the first building in Manhattan I would see before entering the city. When I looked at it I would remind myself, now that I'm here I'm going to work as hard as I can to make it happen. I see so many people working hard to make a living here...vendors on the street, cab drivers, artists, they probably thought the same thing.
I don't take photos of the Empire State Building anymore I know it's still here. But when I saw it fading into the clouds a couple days ago I took this shot. It reminds me that I'm still here.
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