Human Scale in the Grand Central Dig – Lens

Human Scale in the Grand Central Dig

Forty-five feet below street level, Todd Heisler and Mariana Vasconcellos visited an enormous excavation project at Grand Central Terminal.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/assignment-33/

Forty-five feet below Midtown’s busy streets, Todd Heisler of The Times took a tour of an enormous excavation project at Grand Central Terminal.

Mr. Heisler’s best-known work includes intimate stories like “One in 8 Million.” So one might think photographing a tunnel would be a challenge. But he managed to find “little quirky human elements” in the vast mechanical undertaking. This video, by Mariana Vasconcellos, shows how Mr. Heisler approached the assignment.