Linus Gelber
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It’s ironic that photography, the most precise of the visual arts, can be the most mysterious as well. Even the speediest painter is constrained by the time it takes to pin lines and color to the page, and in that time the world seeps in. A painting or a sketch is an informed composition.
In a photo time is counted in moments: a scene is snatched, fixed, jumbled through a sieve of dark and light, and preserved without reference. Who is the woman in this portrait? Who is the artist photographer? I am here to shoot a Friday-night graffiti and art show at this trendy Manhattan disco. At first we don’t see the exhibit, and then, in small moments, it emerges from the surround. We drift past anonymous walls. We’ve been in it the whole time.
Editor’s Note: This photograph was taken for a nightlife article in New York Cool
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