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Stati Uniti · The New York Times Building, New York · 2024
Trame di Notizie
by Davide Terrile
The newspaper's masthead unfolds within the architectural grid, a promise of words vibrating behind glass and steel. Around it, the brick chorus of Manhattan is the raw material feeding that story every day. The city awaits, dense and evident.
The wide aperture (f/1.8) and low sensitivity (ISO 100) necessitated a very fast shutter speed (1/500s) to manage the daylight. This choice freezes the scene and renders the building's graphic pattern with maximum sharpness, almost like an abstract texture.