An Urban View: Post-Modern City Life
Welcome to An Urban View, the Urban View Photo™ Blog devoted to the Great American City!
Here you will find scenes from the urban landscape: images depicting Man's struggle against the environment as expressed in modern, industrialized society (i.e. the built environment). These illustrations range from vibrant, pleasant cityscapes to bleak, gritty, often surreal portraits of urban decay; whose ultimate goal is to accurately reflect and forever preserve the frantic, mechanized pace of city life at a moment in time. Sweeping twilight urban vistas, large brooding structures, huge powerful intricate machinery or abandoned warehouses - in short, urban industrial images.
Boston - Birthplace of the Revolution
January 11, 2014
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Boston - Birthplace of the American Revolution
We traveled to Boston recently, and really enjoyed our stay there. The image above is of Boston's North End, where one can find the Boston Tea Party museum, and a great deal of history. North End is VERY popular and parking is at a premium, so if you go, get there early (but stay late;)
We started ou...
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Jersey City - "Wall Street West"
December 30, 2013
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Jersey City - "Wall Street West" Much has changed in Jersey City from when I was a boy living in Bayonne. Then, Jersey City was a place to be avoided, not celebrated. I remember the countless times my uncle, one of Bayonne's Finest, used to admonish me, "Stay out of Jersey City!". So, it was with a great deal of reluctance that I relented & decided...
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A Day In The City
May 14, 2013
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A Day In The City
We've been so busy lately shooting in Jersey City, we decided to shoot across the tube and take some photos of "Wall Street West" (Jersey City Waterfront) from the other side of the Hudson. In our anticipation of getting all those "fantastic" images of the JC waterfront, we forgot to look behind us. When we did...whoa! The day wa...
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Philadelphia
May 14, 2013
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I love Philadelphia. A vibrant, colorful city, the birthplace of our nation, it has a great deal to offer the casual tourist. Whether visiting the French Quarter (yes, Philadelphia actually HAS a French Quarter), browsing Independence Hall (for all the History, 'natch!) or climbing the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (you know, the "Rocky"...
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Published!
March 13, 2013
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Published!
(My first published image)
DEVCO (New Br unswick Development Corporation), licensed this image for one of their recent ad campaigns. The ad ran in the NJBIZ Real Estate Report Spring 2013 Supplement, inside front cover. While other images were included along the bottom of the ad, the main image was my night shot of New Brunswick on the...
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