New Show at Gallery-On-Dean

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Please take time to see this Prospect Heights exhibit called "Rise of the World Trade Center" at Gallery-on-Dean which is in its 4th year and takes no commission nor charges any fees to the Brooklyn
artists it exhibits. I am the beleagured volunteer curator. Here is info about the show. Hope you'll come and meet the photographer and have some wine on September 30th 4-6.

Photos by Bruce Frisch are being shown at
Gallery-on-Dean from September 12th- October 15th.
Frisch spent 35 years in magazine publishing
specializing in aerospace and science. He shot over
130 covers for the major magazines. His subjects
ranged from politicians to Nobelists, from remotely
piloted vehicles to the space station, and from
thalidomide to washday soaps. The exhibit at
Gallery-on-Dean features Frisch’s documentation of
the rise of the World Trade Center.

When the New York Port Authority presented its plans
for the World Trade Center in the early '60's, the
public saw it as a new world's tallest buildings and
as an architectural innovation. Three neighboring
structures in Lower Manhattan were former tallest
buildings, and several others had narrowly lost races
to the sky. And rather than rising as a forest of
columns, the twin towers had a sturdy hollow inner
core housing elevators and utilities and put all its
columns in the outer walls. Before partitioning, every
3/4 acre floor offered an unbroken expanse of space.
This selling point became the Trade Center's weak
point on the fateful day of 9/11/01.

Writing about the world’s tallest buildings, and
then on the coming World Trade Center stirred the
photographer to follow in photographs its spectacular
rise on land where there had been a food market since
1871 in the Washington Street area, and later, Radio
Row on Cortland Street grew after the invention of
the radio tube.

As the massive frames rose, they could be seen for
miles from New Jersey, uptown, down the harbor, and
from the photographer's rooftop in Park Slope. The
farther away the photographer got the more gigantic
they looked compared to ordinary buildings in between.
Even unfinished, they were so tall clouds sometimes
enveloped the tops.

When completed in 1973, they gave the latest
highest vantage point from which to view the city.
From the observation deck in the South Tower, the
sightseer could look down on several former must-visit
observation towers, including the steeple of Trinity
Church on whose land the Washington Market had been
built.

Although the world's tallest title shifted within a
few months west to Chicago, then to Asia, the World
Trade Center never lost its symbolism and therefore
its fatal attraction.

“Rise of the World Trade Center: Photos by Bruce
Frisch" is at Gallery- on-Dean 755 Dean Street
Brooklyn from September 12th through October 15. A
public reception for this distinguished photographer
will be held on SUNDAY September 30th from 4-6, when
affordable prints of other subject matter by the
artist will also be available. Gallery hours are 11-7
Sat.- Sun and 4-11 Mon-Fri. For information call
(718) 638-3326 or email [email protected].