Central Park
building at the end of a long perspective of the Avenue,
with Grand Central Station lit up at the bottom where
taxis flow in and around it. In the foreground, Park Avenue looks businesslike in pristine brick, the street populated seemingly only by yellow taxis. Grand Central appears like an apparition from Oz at the end of this long
trajectory.
Gramercy Park is the most surprising of Wilkes��� images,
for his perspective, facing west and captured from a level above the treetops changes radically our customary
view of the park as a small oasis in the city. Here, with
bombastic foliage on either side, the park appears monHYLAND
