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Lou Reed's New York
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Many of the photos in your New York book show the city in a beautiful light; some look like they weren't made in the city. Was that intended?
Yeah, we're always surrounded by the buildings here, but I wanted to document some beauty. New York is always changing, moment to moment, and we are this glorious island, and we usually don't think of it that way. You kind of take it for granted. But if you do stop and look, it's really an astonishing sight, every day.
Some of the shots are creatively blurred, with streaking light patterns. Is that
all done in camera?
Yes it is. If you spend a lot of time doing that, you learn that if you move the camera a certain way, it does certain things. Like there's one where it made notes. I thought that was amazing -- all these musical notes dancing across the Hudson River.
Do you still like to shoot from rooftops?
I've been doing other things. I like variety. I put my pictures in a slide-show monitor on my Mac, with a Ken Burns effect, which can fool you into not recognizing your own photos. Every once in a while I'll glance at one before I know it's mine, and it just kills me, it's so beautiful.
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