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Around
1971 when the World Trade Center was under construction, Minolta Photographer
Carl D. Piazza was taking pictures from a helicopter and created this
image.
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Carl
D. Piazza ~1971 - New York World Trade Center was under construction New York, New York, US |
Minolta
orange filter
Minolta 16mm f/2.8 lens at f/16 Minolta SR T 101 Camera at 1/500 second 600x400 |
Hello
Minolta Photographers,
I hope this note finds you all well, especially after the horrors of September 11, 2001. May I share this Minolta Photography image that I recently found in a book? This image is from 30 years ago, around 1971 when the World Trade Center was under construction in New York City, New York. Minolta Photographer Carl D. Piazza was taking pictures from a helicopter over New York and created this image. Carl used a Minolta 16mm f/2.8 lens at f/16 with orange filter and a Minolta SR T 101 Camera at 1/500 second. Why do I share this image, especially now? If I had words, I wouldn't be so 'into' photography! I feel there is something bigger than words for me in photographic images. Documentation? Journalism? Personal memories? Technical demonstration? History? Hope? What made Carl D. Piazza create this image? What makes any of us create and keep images? This image is a scan from "Chapter IV, The Rokkor Lens Guide", page IV-19, from a black and white book-printed image (dot-screened) from a book series entitled "Minolta System Handbook" by Joseph D. Cooper, published by AMPHOTO American Photographic Book Publishing Company, Inc., New York, New York, 1972. The book includes many Minolta Photography images and technical resources. If anyone knows the whereabouts and history of Carl D. Piazza and Joseph D. Cooper, please tell us! If anyone has insight on scanning a dot-screen printed image without a getting moiré pattern, please share your secrets! Peter Blaise |