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CITIES
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This is an ongoing series based in the same, conceptual methodology as my landscape work. In photographing landscape my approach has always been consciously to try to avoid applying any pre-determined aesthetic; to allow the land – which, could it care at all, would, I am sure, care little about whether it “pictures” well – a larger voice than my own. To this end, my methodology has been to seek out and photograph selected horizons, horizons between my camera and which things sometimes intervene. In the “Cities” series, I do the same thing, however, the appearance of the resulting images is dramatically different. I position myself with a camera, either hand-held or on a tripod, at a location in a city past which, for an extended period, one can be assured of a constant, dense flow of pedestrians. Over one or two hours, 3 to 400 photographs are made from roughly the same position. No viewfinder is used. Apart from the initial establishment of point of view, the distribution of physical elements within each frame is mediated only by the moment of exposure. 192 of the photographs are subsequently selected, reproduced and presented, in temporal order, as a single, 122 cm. x 244 cm. panel – a demographic “snapshot” of the cosmopolitanism I now find common to all major cities.
PARIS
S.W. Corner, Boulevard de Sébastopol & Rue du Rambuteau,
Paris, France
48° 51’ 43.21” N 2° 21’ 00.10” E
Saturday,December 16, 2017. 2:07 pm. – 4:25 pm.
Paris Detail
SAN FRANCISCO
S.E. Corner, Geary & Powell Streets, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
37° 47’ 14.48” N 122° 24’ 29.23” W
Saturday, December 22, 2012. 1:38 pm – 4:34 pm. PST
San Francisco Detail
TORONTO
S.W. Corner, Front and Bay Streets, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
43º 38′ 44.86″ N 79º 22′ 45.33″ W
Tues., July 13, 2010. 7:56 am. – 9:03 a.m.
Toronto Detail
HAVANA
Calle Obispo, Havana, Republic of Cuba
23º 08′ 18.18″ N 82º 21′ 15.53″ W
Thurs., Dec. 24, 2009. 10:24 – 11:31 a.m.
Havana Detail
CHICAGO
South East Corner, North Michigan Avenue & at East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
41° 53’ 41.11” N 87° 37’ 26.52” W
Saturday, September 20, 2008. 12:32 p.m. – 1:48 p.m
Chicago Detail
DUBLIN
Grafton Street, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
53° 20′ 31.24″ N 6° 15′ 35.78″ W
Saturday, June 30, 2007. 1:10–2:17 p.m.
Dublin Detail
AMSTERDAM
Dam Square from Kalverstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
52° 22’ 21.67” N 4° 53’ 31.31” E
Saturday, December 17, 2005. 2:47 – 4:02 p.m.
Amsterdam Detail
LONDON
SE Corner of Oxford Circus, London, England
51° 30’ 54.37” N 0° 08’ 30.26” W
Friday, July 02, 2004. 1:55 am. – 3:40 p.m.
London Detail
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