It’s nighttime in New York. I’m off to Robert Mann Gallery to look at Gail Albert Halaban‘s Out My Window work. I find it cozy.
Next week I am going to Paris. For the first time ever. I am training for it by looking at Floriane de Lassée’s similar cityscapes-meet-portraits.
I shall endeavor to track down this piano.
Snug as a Bug.
Have a lovely evening, folks.
I really like those but cannot help but think that some of them seem a little “too good to be true”. Are they compositions or not? how can you tell for sure?
I love your blog! and your recent photos are amazing, I am definitely going to watch your blog!
superbe idée que tu as eu. je trouve les clichés très parlant.
i love it.
Very cozy indeed. I love these images and I imagine you had a great time at the gallery last night. One thing that interests me, is do you know if these are well planned setups? They feel like they are well planned but hold onto such an informal feeling. Regardless, I love them.
i love em… as for SerialK’s comment, i agree, a few seemed to be HDRs of the building and then added the human element in later… the guy 4th from the last seemed to be a little transparent… but even with that they are great pieces!
“the guy 4th from the last seemed to be a little transparent…”
This is usually an indication that an image is a long exposure with a flash pop rather than a comp. The flash pops, the subject moves out of the way, then background burns in, overlaying the flashed subject on the negative. It still could be a comp, but do you really care whether an image is artificially assembled in-camera or in post? Either way, they were posed, and that makes them constructions by definition.
By the way, thanks Rachel. I saw your post, recognized some of these from New York magazine and zoomed up to the gallery just before the end. I liked the show.
Have fun in Paris, Rachel.
If that city doesn’t squeeze some more nice photos out of you i don’t know what will.
Ah Paris I remember it well. Thank heaven for la la la……..
That last photo is in Istanbul, not Paris, you realise that I hope (wouldn’t want you wandering the streets looking for the Blue Mosque…)
Curious pictures. That touch “voyeur” is very good.
By the way, congratulations on the blog! and I invite you to visit mine.
I like the idea of being voyeuristic in this way. I think a lot of people do and are. I do agree with some other posters that some of the photos seem staged or unreal. It appears that some of the lighting and coloring just do not match up as well as they could. I would think this could have been avoided, even if the images were not created, attention could have been given to this. I don’t mean to be nasty or that, because I do like the images. I think it would be interesting to live in a place that you could see so many lives happening at one time.