 | |
 |
Ken Schles (United States), author of Invisible City and one of the most influential photo books of the last decades, focusses on people in public space, seamingly thoughtless on their way from one destination to the next: living, working, shopping. Also visit www.kenschles.com.
In the fall and winter of 2005 the Lucas Schoormans Gallery in New York showed Schles' series of Promised Land. See www.lucasschoormans.com Schles may never again reach the height of gritty verite he hit with "Invisible City", his hellishly brilliant 1988 photo-essay on the young and the wasted in Alphabet City. But he hasn't lost his ability to get under the skin of urban life, and his new work, made in the course of a project in Holland, finds him on solid ground. His subjects are ordinary citizens seen in passing: waiting for a train, sitting on a bus, peering through a cafe window. Although occasional eye contact is made, nothing is revealed. So it's hard to account for the vague but persistent sense of yearning, unless the muffled melancholia is the photographer's own.
Also read: |
  |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
