LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As a Danish transplant living in New York, photographer Peter Funch began creating a series of panoramic, composite images on the streets of his adopted city in 2006. The result is his project Babel Tales Redux, now on display at the…
Mt. Zelig Like winter’s first snow, the annual photobook listmania has settled across the land once again. One listed title which caught my eye was … Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2019/12/mt-zelig.html Like winter’s first snow, the annual photobook listmania has settled across the land once again. One listed title which caught my eye was Jeff Mermelstein’s 2019 favorite,…
Peter Funch Sees the Patterns in the People on the Street For years, the Danish photographer watched commuters near Grand Central Terminal, spotting the same figures, gestures and expressions, again and again. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/magazine/peter-funch-sees-the-patterns-in-the-people-on-the-street.html It’s not that hard to go out into the street and take a stranger’s picture. It is legal and, with the…
Danish photographer Peter Funch stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. He then uses Photoshop to composite the results into single images. Check it out here. via BoingBoing.
