There are obvious reasons why the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion has become photographers’ favorite subject in our city.
Local photographer Jason Carter notes that sunsets cast the museum as part of the skyline – a distinctive part of it, but a member of the crowd nonetheless. In east-facing sunrise photos like this shot he captured last April, though, MAM stands alone.
And have you ever noticed the pointed tip of the winged pavilion, so prominent from this angle? Says Carter: “That spire makes me think of a fishing pole attached with an invisible line to the sun, pulling it out of the water.”
