maybe it's just me

Metropolis

The New Yorker's staff architectural photographer Robert Polidori has a newish book out called Metropolis that focuses on his work in, uh, big cities. A lot of his photos in there leave me feeling neither hot or cold. It may be one of those situations where I think that a lot of the images rely on the weird otherness of the locations or the spectacular-ness of the architecture. There are a handful of of his other photos, mostly interiors like the one above, that have the something that I wish the rest did. I do like a lot of the work in his books Havana & Zones of Exclusion