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THE MOAT

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, BILBAO, SPAIN

Image Number 244

When the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in 1997, it was hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings and described by some as "the greatest building of our time".    Atticus Webb was so taken by the swirling organic forms and the play of light on the titanium cladding that he spent six hours photographing the exterior.  The museum closed for the day before he could make it inside.

TECHNICAL NOTES

Captured by Atticus Webb mid afternoon on a Zeiss Contax 645 medium format camera with Zeiss 55 mm medium wide angle lens at f11 with an exposure of 1/45th of a second.    The image was registered on a transparency using Fuji Velvia 50 ASA film.  It was then scanned in high resolution by Bond Imaging.