The shape of the card mimics the the shape and scale of the adjoining building. As with most of my work, the photograph plays perceptual tricks on the viewer. How can a 4-inch playing card be as tall as a 35 story building? It can be done with the right angle, lens and lighting. This is a straight shot. So where was this taken? I was able to get on the roof of adjacent building on 8th or 9th Ave in the 30s. Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg and hyper-realist painter Janet Fish and then in Graduate School for Art History with famed critic E.C. Goossen. He went on to work as a Photographer, New York Advertising Art Director for Print and TV, and an Art Collector. The work is signed, numbered 3\\u002F15, dated and titled lr. printed later