‘Odd Side of Broadway’ is a photographic documentation of the west side of Broadway, from Battery Park through the Bronx. It took one-hundred 200ASA 35mm rolls, on 7 trips from 7am to 12:00 noon, in the fall of 2000-2001, to transform the 12 miles of street into a 500 ft strip of 4″x6″ print snapshots. The operation registers the front façade strip from street level up to about a thirty-foot height. It does not take into consideration the skyline or the city silhouette. It isolates itself from what is above and below to focus on the intersection of the oblique avenue in relation to the grid and its built context. Having been shot during weekend mornings, the project excludes the registers of daily human activity, which are temporal, and instead focuses on the language of the built fabric.
‘Odd Side of Broadway’ is a photographic documentation of the west side of Broadway, from Battery Park through the Bronx. It took one-hundred 200ASA 35mm rolls, on 7 trips from 7am to 12:00 noon, in the fall of 2000-2001, to transform the 12 miles of street into a 500 ft strip of 4″x6″ print snapshots. The operation registers the front façade strip from street level up to about a thirty-foot height. It does not take into consideration the skyline or the city silhouette. It isolates itself from what is above and below to focus on the intersection of the oblique avenue in relation to the grid and its built context. Having been shot during weekend mornings, the project excludes the registers of daily human activity, which are temporal, and instead focuses on the language of the built fabric.
