21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
ESCALATOR TO THE SKYLINE

New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan on a cold and foggy day in early Spring. The scene: a silhouette of bundled visitors taking an escalator to one of the upper galleries…towards a quintessential view of the city’s storied skyline. As the architect clearly intended, the panorama beckons as a prelude to other museum wonders. Simultaneously, enhanced with imagined color in response to this somewhat dreary weather, the resulting photographic image perhaps serves as its own painted canvas.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2022
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: New York, New York, United States of America
Camera: DC-TZ200
Copyright: © Benjamin Clavan