The City These photographs of city buildings depict the urban intensity of New York and Philadelphia. Traditional and modern city icons are improbably juxtaposed in a distant view. World-renowned monuments are seen through cracks in the urban fabric. The monotony of commercial modernity fills the field of vision. Buildings are reflected to appear in places where they are not. Sunlight reflects from the south and again from the north confounding orientation. These are just some of the vital essences and visual delights of navigating in today’s major cities. The unexpected competing for attention with the utterly predictable.