Last summer I visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn for the first time in decades, photographing its zoo’s animals and walking through neighboring areas, Grand Army Plaza and Park Slope. I also visited the Brooklyn Museum of Art to finally see a pair of statues flanking its entrance: Manhattan and Brooklyn, by my favorite American sculptor, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). Capturing these allegorical female figures had long been on my bucket list.
Read MoreSwann Memorial Fountain is located in Logan Square, midway between City Hall—with its tall spire crowned by a statue of William Penn—and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (Photos Joseph Kellard)
“Take me to that large fountain in the middle of the city,” I told a cab driver parked outside my hotel during a weekend trip to Philadelphia last summer.
The day before, I spotted the fountain from a taxi, my refuge from the unforgiving June sun, humidity and temps flirting with triple digits, enroute from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to a Marriott downtown.
Read MoreOn entering the Raphael Court, I immediately understood that I was stepping into a special venue at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London.
Read MoreMy photo of the right hand of Michelangelo’s David holding a stone appears on page 41 of the book “Michael Bockemühl, Kunst Sehen, Michelangelo.”
The Frankfurt-based Info3 Verlag recently published“Michael Bockemühl, Kunst Sehen, Michelangelo,” which features my first photo printed in a book, an image of a hand of Michelangelo’s David.
During the fifteenth century, a tall, multi-ton block of marble lay abandoned for decades in a courtyard at the Florence Cathedral. It has since become one of the world’s most celebrated pieces of stone, and I got to photograph it in intimate detail.
Read MoreProducing a solo work of art that beautifies your home can leave you with a wonderful daily reminder of your abilities. I learned this after arranging photos I’d taken over my couch to create an esthetically pleasing corner of my humble abode.
Read MoreSome paintings and sculptures that caught my eye during a few strolls through the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier this year:
Read MoreA New York icon is the repetitive subject of a new mural on the High Line.
Read MoreLocated at the northwest gate of Central Park in Manhattan, Frederick Douglass Circle features an appropriately larger-than-life sculpture of the abolitionist, author and orator.
Read MoreWhat I noticed first about the equestrian monument to Joan of Arc on Manhattan’s West Side, as I approached from a pedestrian path in the small park named for the French patriot, is that she and her horse were not noticeable.
Read MoreThis was a tough photo to get. The monument to Cornelius Vanderbilt, by Ernst Plassmann (1823 – 1877), resides at the south facade of Grand Central Terminal, where the Park Avenue Viaduct wraps around the nation's busiest railroad station and other buildings.
Read MoreA girl and her brother looked directly at me, their stares inviting me to step into a room they were in. So I did.
Read MoreThe Sculpture window at Bergdorf Goodman on 5th Avenue in New York. (Photo: Joseph Kellard).
There’s a reason I drive into Manhattan before each Christmas, and it’s not primarily to take photos at festive Rockefeller Center.
Read MoreRomeo and Juliet, by Milton Hebald, in Central Park. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
If you stroll through Central Park and approach the Delacorte Theater, famous for its Shakespearian productions, a sculpture there will command your attention.
Read MoreGeorge Washington is all bundled up in Brooklyn. I made this discovery during a recent excursion through Williamsburg, while I looked for new spots to take snapshots of the New York skyline.
Read MoreA few hours before I met a woman for a date in Central Park, I went on my standard date at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Read MoreAmerica is one of four sculptures that comprise The Continents, by Daniel Chester French., located in lower Manhattan. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
While you likely never read about them in any geography texts, four continents are located on the southern tip of Manhattan island.
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