Seagram Building, 1954-1958 Park Avenue, NYC Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Architects I'll never tire of telling how, once, I stood with my back to the Seagram Building, admiring the Lever House while wondering where the Seagram Bldg was. I never saw it. So, on this trip, I wasn't going to leave NYC without one visit, however short. Taken on a whirlwind tour early in the morning before the rest of the family was up. Difficult to find a position to shoot from where one is far enough back to get the whole structure in the lens and at the same time not have part of the shaft being blocked by the other buildings around it. (Here, I will admit, I had to tilt it a bit and corrected it later). Note the Citicorp Tower visible in the gap. The cromatic aberration here is terrible, but I couldn't correct the purple hue on the left corner without ruining the rest of the picture and I didn't want to go b&w because of that beautiful iconic 'architectural bronze' of the Seagram skin. So, purple it is.
