Lower Manhattan Graffiti and Fire Escapes | Colour Architecture Photograph
Rooftop Lettering Above Narrow Facades and Crossing Metal Fire Escapes
Large rooftop graffiti sits above a close row of Lower Manhattan buildings in this colour photograph. Cream and red facades, metal fire escapes and hanging signs create a dense urban view, with green street trees entering near the lower edge. I made the image in 2010, keeping the rooftops and the street-facing architecture within the same elevated composition.
The broad lettering provides an immediate point of attention. It occupies a wall above the smaller windows and rails below, while the red words LOVE ME appear higher on another pale surface. Those painted marks give the upper part of the photograph a different rhythm from the more ordered building fronts. The eye can move from large letters to narrow fire escape stairs, then follow the rows of windows downward.
I find the overlapping metalwork especially absorbing. Platforms, rails and ladders cross the facades at different heights, adding fine diagonal lines to the wider blocks of masonry. Rooftop fittings and small hanging items introduce another level of detail. Colour helps separate those layers, with warm red walls and darker metal standing beside pale stone and blue signs.
This close city view keeps the everyday additions visible. The buildings are more than clean outlines: their surfaces carry lettering, signs, rails and the small structures that accumulate around roof edges. For someone drawn to New York architecture and urban street detail, the photograph offers a richly layered Manhattan scene. My attention moves between the rooftop graffiti and the fire escapes, two very different kinds of marks sharing the same closely built space.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2010
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