November 29, 2004
Museum
This was my second chance for a New Yorker cover this week. The one that got away was a line outside of a men's room at the movies. The woman behind me in line (inside the Ladies) remarked that it was too bad that no one had a camera to record the unusual phenomenon . I did, but didn't get unzipped and focused before the line dissipated .
I happened upon the scene above at the museum. The photo would have a more perfect specimen if I had been able to shot my usual eighty frames. Instead, I was being surreptitious , assuming that cameras were forbidden on the premises. I was wrong. Flash is forbidden and photographing any piece that is on loan from a private collection is forbidden. (The Voluptuosa may be privately owned, I didn't check.) Otherwise you can shoot it up to your heart's content, if you don't mind that dim preservation lighting. As you know, I never let a little thing like that bother me.
Unfortunately, I didn't ask about the photography rules until I was leaving, or I would have shot up the Ming Dynasty for your perusual.
Photo note: a departure from the black background of recent entries
Posted by Dakota at November 29, 2004 11:03 AM