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...location, in the chic Normandie Apartments Building, is a sequestered gem. The block is Shanghai's only "flatiron" edifice, erected in 1924 on a thoroughfare through the leafy old French Concession, and has now been designated by the authorities as a preserved building. Arch is nestled on the ground floor and forms a swanky hideaway that is the antithesis of the spit-and-sawdust watering holes on down and dirty Maoming Lu or the contrived, yuppie hangouts of Xintiandi...
...location, in the chic Normandie Apartments Building, is a sequestered gem. The block is Shanghai's only "flatiron" edifice, erected in 1924 on a thoroughfare through the leafy old French Concession, and has now been designated by the authorities as a preserved building. Arch is nestled on the ground floor and forms a swanky hideaway that is the antithesis of the spit-and-sawdust watering holes on down and dirty Maoming Lu or the contrived, yuppie hangouts of Xintiandi...
...thing. Lightweight? "Let's face it," he says of his TV-hosting career. "It's not brain surgery." Superficial pretty boy? When The Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie told him, on his new syndicated daytime show On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, that her most important possession was her flatiron, he replied, "Oh, sister, trust me, I know. It's the only thing I have in my bathroom. That and Cosmo...
...photography as an equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow, 1902. The hundreds of photos he made of Georgia O'Keeffe, his lover and (after 1924) his wife, are an intense and extended erotic essay. Never before had a camera scrutinized a woman so closely or praised a fine-boned body with such rapturous aesthetic effect...
...fascinated by large enduring things: monuments of the relatively recent past such as the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building in New York; old practical forms like a windmill, a smokestack or a lighthouse; or things that have acquired a sort of timelessness as artistic stereotypes, like Myron's Discobolos or Rodin's The Thinker. But few of them are immediately recognizable, and they all derive from other kinds of art, including photography. The looming profile of Moskowitz's Flatiron Building comes from Edward Steichen's famous gray-silhouetted photo of that structure, made almost three-quarters...