For its July 30th issue, The New Yorker commissioned Tobias Hutzler to photograph a Rooftop Films screening on July 4th at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. It turned out to be a bit of a stormy night, and Tobias was stationed 60 feet up in a crane, above a crowd of 1,500 people, in order to get an overhead shot.
“The lightning came extremely close!” he recalls with a laugh.
Here’s the photo and how it appeared in the magazine:
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Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens during a Rooftop Films screening on July 4, 2012. Photo by Tobias Hutzler for The New Yorker, July 30, 2012, issue.
Tobias’ photo as seen in The New Yorker.
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And here’s a short video of Tobias at work in the crane. (By the way, he wishes to thank Socrates Sculpture Park, Jessie Wender, Shaun, Ellen, and Daniel Roberts.)
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Update: Here’s a cool time-lapse video of that night, produced by AT&T, sponsor of the outdoor cinema program at the sculpture park.
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And here are two more of his photos from that night:
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Photo by Tobias Hutzler.
Photo by Tobias Hutzler.
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So awesome!