Monday, March 30, 2020

Vision Rising Out of the Sea



"To me 
New York is a vision that rises out of the sea as I come up the harbor on my Atlantic liner, and which glimmers for a while in the sun for the first of my stay amidst its pinnacles; but which vanishes, but for fragmentary glimpses, as I become one of the grey creatures that crawl about like ants, at the bottom of its gloomy caverns."

Alvin Langdon Coburn, quoted in Beyond the Architect's Eye

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