Howard Fineman
Artist Statement
Reichstag Dome 2, Berlin, Germany, 2011, Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print on Fine Art Rag Paper, $475
Photography has been my passion since I was a teen; now in retirement I continue to refine my craft doing what I love.
Sir Norman Foster’s Reichstag Dome is a visual and structural feat. It is usually shown as a horizontal view or a wide-angle upwards view of the whole dome and its axial convection column. My atypical view emphasizes the graceful arcs of the ramp, freeing it to float within the ribs of the dome.
Light at the End of the Tunnel, National Gallery of Art, DC, 2012, Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print on Fine Art Rag Paper, $350
I.M. Pei’s people-mover tunnel between his newer East Building and John Russell Pope’s classical West Building can be hypnotic. The 32,000 LEDs in the surrounding slats “randomly” and continually change patterns – a visual delight to a spellbound photographer like me.
