Hall of Science, New York City
To the exploration of 1964 World's fair.
by Marco Trezzini
In the mind of the organizers, the 1964 New York World's Fair had to be a kind of remake of the 1939 -1940 and 1853 - 1854 ones. The plans were huge, the fair had to be spectacular and the participation had to be extremely high. Something - anyhow - went wrong: looking for the endorsement by the Bureau of the International Expositions, the minds behind the Fair weren't able to get any and - quite the contrary - turned the BIE against it. As a result, almost no foreign country participated to the fair (amongst the ones that decided to go against BIE's formal request not to participate were Spain and Vatican City, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Thailand, Philippines, Greece, Pakistan, Jordan and Belgium), which turned as being an exposition dominated by US corporations. The costs were extremely high, the returns on sales not as expected, condemning hence the fair to limp through the second season only by emergency money provided by the city. After its closure, the majority of its buildings and attractions were moved to other places in the country or destroyed. Today, only a few ones are still in place and thanks to Sam Rohn's panoramic images, one has the chance to walk through them, traveling back in time... The Hall of Science was part of the Space park. Deteriorated during the years, it was brought back to its beauty in 2004 and currently hosts a science museum and space park, which exhibits rockets and vehicles used in early space exploration. 
click here to view Hall of Science panoramaHall of Science official website can be found here. Sam created panoramas of 2 other remains of the World Fair: The Unisphere was the symbol of the fair. Forgotten until 1997, when it was made famous in the movie Men in Black, it is currently a symbol of Queens. View panorama. The Tent of tomorrow, A six million dollar open-air pavilion, the Tent of Tomorrow was designed by famed modernist architect Philip Johnson. Today is abandoned and in state of despair. View panorama.  Photographer: Sam Rohn of SamRohn.com and NYLocations.com.Where: New York City, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens.When: 2007.Why: Sam was scouting locations for a Louis Vuitton photo shoot with photographers Mert & Marcus, with model Eva Herzegovina, but the shooting later took place at the Unisphere. Even though Sam doesn't usually shoot panoramic images in this kind of job, he grabbed the change to do so and dragged the head & tripod along...Technical Equipment: The image was shot with a Nikon d300 + Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye, Nodal Ninja 3, Gitzo 1258-LVL leveling tripod, & release cable. The technique used required 6 shots around, 1 up, 2 down, 9 exposures per (+/- 4 stops up & down), 81 images total. Sam was experimenting with Bracketeer, a front end for enfuse, he wasn't sure he needed so many images, but he wanted to see what would happen. He enfused images with Bracketeer, stitched with Realviz Stitcher 5.5.4 on mac pro dual 3ghz + 5gb ram, played a bit of Photoshop CS3, qtvr's rendered with Cubic Converter and later displayed on his wordpress site with Flash Panorama Player, and geopress.Sam Rohn was born and raised in NYC and works as a location scout for movies, episodic TV, music videos, commercial photography, television commercial and so on, with a list which is quite impressive and comprises locations for movies such as Meet Joe Black, Men in Black and King Kong; collaborations with photographers like Mert & Marcus, David Lachapelle, Annie Liebowitz and Art Strieber (to name but a few); and scouting for companies as Apple, Amex, Price Waterhouse Coopers, BMW, Nike and Coca Cola. A panographer since 1998, Sam has shot panos professionaliy for pre-viz & final effects on Peter Jackson's King Kong, as well as Conde Nast's brides.com, local businesses and IKEA. Links:
SamRohn.com
NYLocations.com
Email: sam at nylocations.com
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