Raffi Khatchadourian: Arne Svenson Photographs His Neighbors: The New Yorker Three years ago, Arne Svenson, a photographer living in lower Manhattan, inherited a CT-501 500-mm. Nikon telephoto lens from a bird-watching friend. The lens was perfect for shooting faraway egrets or sanderlings, but Svenson, who favored still-lifes, knew nothing of nature photography. "I thought, I've got to try it out," he said the other day at his apartment. He pointed to a building across the street. The logical subject was this. . . .