New York. Proyecto Aldo Sessa

ALDO SESSA

NEWYORK

ALDO SESSA

NEWYORK

ALDO SESSA

PRODUCTION ADVISOR MICHAEL GROHMAN

View of the Upper Bay and Verrazzano Bridge

IF I’D LIVED IN ROMAN TIMES, I’D HAVE LIVED IN ROME. WHERE ELSE ? TODAY AMERICA IS THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND NEW YORK IS ROME ITSELF John Lennon

Liberty Island

Statue of Liberty. Liberty Island.

“I GO TO PARIS, I GO TO LONDON, I GO TO ROME, AND I ALWAYS SAY, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE NEW YORK. IT’S THE MOST EXCITING CITY IN THE WORLD NOW. THAT’S THE WAY IT IS THAT’S IT” Robert De Niro

Statue of Liberty. Four sides. Coordinates 40°41 21.15 N, 74°2 39.93 W

“MANY OF AMERICA’S AND NEW YORK’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE AROUND THE WORLD FIGHTING FOR THE FREEDOMS HAT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY STANDS FOR”. Michael Bloomberg

Empty Sky Memorial. Liberty Park

“SKYSCRAPER NATIONAL PARK”. Kurt Vonnegut

“NEW YORK IS A DIAMOND ICEBERG FLOATING IN RIVER WATER” Truman Capote

Manhattan at night.

“THE LESSON OF 9/11 IS THAT AMERICA IS TRULY EXCEPTIONAL. WE WITHSTOOD THE WORST ATTACK OF OUR HISTORY, INTENDED BY OUR ENEMIES TO DESTROY US. INSTEAD, IT DREW US CLOSER AND MADE US MORE UNITED. OUR LOVE FOR FREEDOM AND ONE ANOTHER HAS GIVEN US A STRENGTH THAT SURPRISED EVEN OURSELVES”. Rudy Giuliani One World Trade Center by David Childs (2014). Battery Park City

“EVEN THE SMALLEST ACT OF SERVICE, THE SIMPLEST ACT OF KINDNESS, IS A WAY TO HONOR THOSE WE LOST, A WAY TO RECLAIM THAT SPIRIT OF UNITY THAT FOLLOWED 9/11.” President Obama

The Oculus by Santiago Calatrava

The Oculus and One World Trade Center.

“...YOU MUST SEE WHY I LOVE NEW YORK, BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD’S IN NEW YORK...” Oriana Fallaci

Wall Street Buildings

View of the Brooklyn Bridge

“UP ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE A MAN IS STANDING IN AGONY, WAITING TO JUMP, OR WAITING TO WRITE A POEM, OR WAITING FOR THE BLOOD TO LEAVE HIS VESSELS BECAUSE IF HE ADVANCES ANOTHER FOOT THE PAIN OF HIS LOVE WILL KILL HIM”. Henry Miller

Brooklyn Bridge

Jane’s Carousel. Brooklyn Bridge Park

“I CARRY THE PLACE AROUND THE WORLD IN MY HEART BUT SOMETIMES I TRY TO SHAKE IT OFF IN MY DREAMS”. F.Scott Fitz Gerald

Soldier’s and Sailors Arch. Grand Army Plaza. Brooklyn

Parachute Jump / Wonder Wheel. Coney Island. Brooklyn

“BROOKLYN, IT’S A GREAT TOWN, A GREAT CITY. IT’S NEW YORK”. Patrick Ewing

Pier 17. East River Esplanade

North view of Manhattan

“GIVE ME THAT SUCH SHOW - GIVE ME THE STREET OF MANHATTAN”. Walt Whitman Reflection. Soho

Arc de Triomphe. Washington Square Park

Mohandas Gandhi’s Monument by Kantilal B. Patel (1986). Union Square Park

IAC Building. Chelsea

Whitney Museum of American Art. Chelsea

Piers view. Chelsea

The Vessel. Hudson yards

“THE GLAMOUR OF IT ALL ! NEW YORK ! AMERICA! ” Charles Chaplin

Fifth Avenue Building Clock in Flatiron District

Flatiron building reflection

Flatiron building

“AN ACTOR IS A SCULPTOR WHO CARVES IN SNOW”. Edwin Booth

Gramercy Park

“THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IS THE CLOSEST THING TO HEAVEN IN THIS CITY”. Deborah Kerr

Reflection in a window. Avenue of The Americas

“IF LONDON IS A WATERCOLOR, NEW YORK IS AN OIL PAINTING” Peter Shaffer Empire State Building

The Empire State Building

“ONE CAN’T PAINT NEW YORK AS IT IS, BUT RATHER AS IT IS FELT”. Georgia O’keefe

Fifth Avenue

“I DO NOT DOCUMENT ANYTHING, I GIVE AN INTERPRETATION ” Andre Kertesz André Kertész at ICP. Avenue of The Americas

“LOVE. FALL IN LOVE AND STAY IN LOVE. WRITE ONLY WHAT YOU LOVE, AND LOVE WHAT YOU WRITE. THE KEY WORD IS LOVE. YOU HAVE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING AND WRITE SOMETHING YOU LOVE, SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR.” Ray Bradbury Public Library. Bryant Park side

“Patience” Lion. Public Library. Bryant Park side

The Rose Main Reading Room. Public Library

Chrysler Building

“NEW YORK IS THE ONLY REAL CITY-CITY”. Truman Capote

Lobby Elevators .Chrysler Building. Lexington 405

Chrome“Eagle” Gargoiles. Chrysler Building

Chrysler Building

Metal cast rats. Central Station

Chandelier. Grand Central Station

“Reflection”, mural by Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada . Kempner PL.

“AS ONLY NEW YORKERS KNOW, IF YOU CAN GET THROUGH THE TWILIGHT, YOU’LL LIVE THROUGH THE NIGHT” Dorothy Parker

“THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THERE IS AN UNSEEN WORLD. THE PROBLEM IS, HOW FAR IS IT FROM MIDTOWN AND HOW LATE IS IT OPEN” Woody Allen

Crown. General Electric Building, Gothic Decó Style. Lexington Avenue

“DARKNESS IS ABSENCE OF LIGHT. SHADOW IS DIMINUTION OF LIGHT” Leonardo Da Vinci

“Spirit of Achievment” by Nina Saemondsson and crystal glasses. Waldorf Astoria Hotel Building.

Limousine. Park Avenue at 50th. St

Cathedral of Saint Patrick. 5th Ave

Rockefeller Center Buildi

“Wisdom” by Lee Lawrie. Rockefeller Center

“American Progress”Mural by José María Sert. Lobby. Rockefeller Center

...”PROMETHEUS, TEACHER IN EVERY ART, BROUGHT THE FIRE THAT HATH PROVED TO MORTALS A MEANS TO MIGHTY ENDS”... . Aeschylus

The Rink. Rockefeller Center

“IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK, EVEN IF YOU’RE CATHOLIC, YOU’RE JEWISH”. Lennie Bruce Two Worlds. Bilboard at 5th Ave.

Ornamental “Pineapples”, 24th floor. Chrysler Building

Easter Parade. Fifth Avenue

5th Ave.

Mannequins. Fifth Ave.

“THE ESSENCE OF STYLE IS A SIMPLE WAY OF SAYING SOMETHING COMPLEX”. Giorgio Armani Stairs at Armani Fifth Ave, designed by Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas

Mannequins Shop. Midtown

Radio City Music Hall

“IN NEW YORK’S TIMES SQUARE A WHITE-CLAD GIRL CLUTCHES HER PURSE AND SKIRT AS UNINHIBITED SAILOR PLANTS HIS LIPS SQUARELY ON HERS” Alfred Elsenstaedt

Times Square

Video Proyection. MOMA

“Pink Phanter” by Jeff Koons. MOMA

Communication Series by Cang Xin. MOMA

“Water Lilies” by Claude Monet. MOMA

Apple Store. Fifth Ave.

“...IT WAS IN THEIR FRIENDSHIP THEY JUST WANTED TO RUN FOREVER, SHADOW AND SHADOW...”. Ray Bradbury Shadows. Madison Ave.

“NEW YORK WAS A CITY WHERE YOU COULD BE FROZEN TO DEATH IN THE MIDST OF A BUSY STREET AND NOBODY WOULD NOTICE”. Bob Dylan

Homeless. Snowstorm. 34th St.

“THE CITY SEEM FROM THE QUEENSBORO BRIDGE IS ALWAYS THE CITY SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN ITS FIRST WILD PROMISE OF ALL THE MYSTERY AND BEAUTY IN THE WORLD” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Empire State and Chrysler building from Queensboro bridge

Smallpox Memorial Hospital. Roosevelt Island

Queensboro Bridge

Pier.Long Island. Queens

Ferry. Long Island. Queens

Corona Park. Flushing Meadows. Queens

Reflection.General Motors Building. 5th Ave.

General William Tecumseh Sherman. Grand Army Plaza. Fifth Avenue.

Central Park

“YOU’RE NEVER ALONE IN NEW YORK, THE CITY IS YOUR DATE”. Sara Jessica Parker Lonely woman.Central Park

View of Central Park

Photographer at The Mall and Literary Walk. Central Park

Central Park

Christopher Columbus

Polar bear “Gus”. Centrak Park Zoo

Sculpture, “The Falconer”. Central Park

Wollman Rink. Central Park

Bethesda Fountain. Central Park

Greywacke Arch. Central Park

EVERY MOMENT OF LIGHT AND DARK IS A MIRACLE” Walt Whitman

Cleopatra’s Needle. Central Park / San Remo Building

Mammoth. American Museum of Natioinal History

Van Gogh. Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat. (1887). The Met

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Hall. The Met

“EVERY BLOCK OF STONE HAS A STATUE INSIDE IT AND IT IS THE TASK OF THE SCULPTOR TO DISCOVER IT” Michelangelo

The Temple of Dendur. MOMA

Copyst of Rembrandt Self-Portrait (1660). The Met

Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum. Fifth Ave.

“THE MOTHER ART IS ARCHITECTURE. WITHOUT AN ARCHITECTURE OF OUR OWN WE HAVE NO SOUL OF OUR OWN CIVILIZATION.” Frank Lloyd Wright

Museum of the City of New York. Fifth Ave.

“I SING LIKE I FEEL” . Ella Fitzgerald

Apollo Teather

Yankee Stadium

TWA Flight Center