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Philadelphia Art Museum at Dusk - Parkway Cityscape Photography

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art sits at the head of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at dusk, its 72 east-facing limestone steps catching the last warm light. The building is a serious neoclassical museum — Horace Trumbauer, 1928, modeled on a Greek temple — but those steps also belong to a movie. In John G. Avildsen's 1976 Rocky, Sylvester Stallone sprinted up them to the Bill Conti horns; a Thomas Schomberg bronze of the character now stands at the bottom. Blue-hour shooting balances the floodlit facade with a still-saturated sky. The photograph captures the building at the moment it stops being a museum and becomes a finish line.