New York/Grand Army Plaza

Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

As I wrote in an earlier post, I have been asked to make photographs of Civil War memorials around Brooklyn for an exhibit this fall at the Brooklyn Public Library. I just got started this past week with a series of pictures of several monuments and statues at Grand Army Plaza. Grand Army Plaza is marked most prominently by an arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and topped by a quadriga, not unlike the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. I will comment some more when I have scans of the 4x5 film I shot. I did take a few pictures with my small camera including the view above of the arch and an apartment building designed by Richard Meier under construction nearby.