{"id":1000,"date":"2013-08-28T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2014-01-09T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:10:55","slug":"bridging-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"BRIDGING THE WORLD: Photography of Robert Cortright"},"content":{"rendered":"

Down wall, from girder into street noon leaks,\/ A rip-tooth of the sky’s acetylene;\/ All afternoon the cloud-flown derricks turn . . . \/Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still.<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 — from Hart Crane’s poem, “To Brooklyn Bridge.”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n George Washington Bridge, New Jersey - New York<\/a>\n
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\n Brooklyn Bridge, New York<\/a>\n
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\n Pulaski Skyway, New Jersey<\/a>\n
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\n Charles Bridge, Prague<\/a>\n
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\n Puente Romano, M\u00e9rida <\/a>\n
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\n Yudai or Jade Belt Bridge, Beijing<\/a>\n
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\n Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Dallas<\/a>\n
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\n Gouritz River Highway Bridge, South Africa<\/a>\n
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\n Yangpu Bridge, Shanghai<\/a>\n
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\n Fleherbr\u00fccke at D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/a>\n
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\n Nanpu Bridge, Shanghai<\/a>\n
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\n Pont Suspendu sur l\u2019Orb, Tarassac, France<\/a>\n
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\n Oued Skhirat Bridge, Casablanca, Morocco<\/a>\n
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\n Pont Neuf, Paris<\/a>\n
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\n Puente de la Mujer, Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/a>\n
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\n Cornelio Aqueduct, Sicily<\/a>\n
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\n Puente de Alamillo, Seville, Spain <\/a>\n
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\n Old Elvet Bridge, Durham, England<\/a>\n
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\n San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge<\/a>\n
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\n Ponte Vecchio, Florence <\/a>\n
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\n Sydney Harbor Bridge, Australia<\/a>\n
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\n Craigellachie, Scotland <\/a>\n
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\n Puente Sobre el Arroyo Maldonado, Uraquay<\/a>\n
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\n Ponte Alfano, Sicily<\/a>\n
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\n Navajo Bridges, Arizona <\/a>\n
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\n Q'eswa Chaca or Keshwa Chaca, Peru<\/a>\n
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After retiring from career in banking in Oregon, Robert Cortright’s passion has been photographing bridges worldwide.\u00a0 His work has appeared in dozens of publications including his own three books, “Bridging<\/i>” (1994), “Bridging, Discovering the Beauty of Bridges<\/i>” (1998)\u00a0 and “Bridging the World<\/i>” (2003).\u00a0 As his quest continues, his website,\u00a0Bridge of the Month Quiz<\/i>\u00a0at\u00a0www.bridgeink.com<\/a>\u00a0challenges an international audience of “bridge fans” to identify the best of his more recent photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Down wall, from girder into street noon leaks,\/ A rip-tooth of the sky’s acetylene;\/ All afternoon the cloud-flown derricks turn . . . \/Thy cables breathe the North Atlantic still. \u00a0 \u00a0 — from Hart Crane’s poem, “To Brooklyn Bridge.”\u00a0 After retiring from career in banking in Oregon, Robert Cortright’s passion has been photographing bridges [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-photography","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}