The bridge is seen from inside a moving vehicle rather than from the familiar pedestrian viewpoint. A car mirror, window edge and neighbouring traffic occupy the foreground while cables, stonework and steel rush past at different speeds.
The blur is important. It prevents the Brooklyn Bridge from becoming another carefully composed architectural portrait. Instead, the photograph is about being carried through it — looking sideways from a vehicle while structure, traffic and reflections briefly collapse into the same frame.
Artwork Information
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Urban Photographs
Title: Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge #9750
Artwork: #9750
Location: Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, USA
Subject: Brooklyn Bridge and traffic viewed from a moving vehicle
Medium: Black-and-white photography
Format: Vertical
Genre: Urban photography
Themes: Movement, infrastructure, travel, city, motion, perspective
Edition: 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
The bridge is seen from inside a moving vehicle rather than from the familiar pedestrian viewpoint. A car mirror, window edge and neighbouring traffic occupy the foreground while cables, stonework and steel rush past at different speeds.
The blur is important. It prevents the Brooklyn Bridge from becoming another carefully composed architectural portrait. Instead, the photograph is about being carried through it — looking sideways from a vehicle while structure, traffic and reflections briefly collapse into the same frame.
Artwork Information
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Urban Photographs
Title: Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge #9750
Artwork: #9750
Location: Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, USA
Subject: Brooklyn Bridge and traffic viewed from a moving vehicle
Medium: Black-and-white photography
Format: Vertical
Genre: Urban photography
Themes: Movement, infrastructure, travel, city, motion, perspective
Edition: 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
