JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

How many polygons can you find? 

“Walker Evans climbed to the roof of the Fisk Building on Central Park South to  photograph the web of steel struts and electric signs that were rapidly filling the skies over Manhattan. The electric signs in this photograph alternately  flashed the company’s name and the names of its two principal products. As there  were approximately a hundred million wheels rolling over America’s roads in  1928, the sale of tires quickly overtook that of rubber galoshes. The image  expresses Evans’ conviction that modern art could be timeless yet topical when  perfectly wrought of vernacular materials.”–Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is one in a series of posts made on found geometries–here are a few others:

Found Alphabets and Geometry in Stone.(here)

Magritte-Like Disorienting Geometry in Found-Art Urban Design, 1925 (here)

Sierpinski Triangles & the Empire State Building (here)