Even under construction, it has claimed a prominent place in the familiar vista through the Washington Arch.
Looking at this unexpectedly familiar vista, I remembered the theory of an important Caribbean scholar, who suggests that the rhythms of sugar production created, across the region, a "repeating island" of similar foods, housing styles and social structures -- that French, or English, or Spanish colonial histories were just different sprinkles on the same cookie.
This nightstand-size book offers fetching paintings of familiar vistas that Mr. Bowden elevates to an ethereal dimension.
But all New Yorkers are losing familiar vistas, and some are losing light and air, as supertall buildings sprout like beanstalks in midtown Manhattan.
While the backgrounds evoke the familiar vistas of the classic American westerns, from computerized evocations of John Ford's Monument Valley to the tortured, mountainous terrain of Anthony Mann's great films of the 1950's, the horses and the humans in the foreground look like refugees from a dull children's book.
Each is intended to reveal the city through a collage of perspectives, offering vistas familiar and unknown.
Similarly, in its gallery of 19th-century landscapes, it dares to mix depictions of nature's majestic forms -- in pottery, a woven rug, a beaded vest -- by anonymous American Indian artisans with familiar Hudson River School vistas by the likes of Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
There's a lot that looks familiar here: frozen vistas, unfortunate mustaches, dark crime and that ever-present upbeat "oooo yaaaa" exaggerated Minnesota accent.
It combines a list of programs similar to Windows 7 with one or two panels of live tiles pulled from Windows 8. Selecting "all programs" shows them in alphabetical order, but the search box familiar to users of Vista and Windows 7 has been moved to the taskbar, where it is more obviously accessible.
In vivid color, Mr. Ziga, a graphic designer who is the author of two other books of photographs, captures familiar and more inconspicuous vistas of New York's seasonal rituals.
To viewers more familiar with the grand vistas of valleys and mountains of such Hudson River School painters as Frederic Church or Thomas Cole -- images that celebrated humankind's spiritual relationship with nature -- it might seem odd to see swamplands receive the same exalted treatment.
