Time Frames: City Pictures

Documenting the past quarter century on the streets of New York City, this collection uses various technical processes to highlight the distinctive vibe of urban living. Divided into five chapters - Panoramas, Grids, Portraits, Multi-Exposures and Diptychs - each technique offers a new way of looking at life in the city. By applying the rigors of experimentation to the uncertainties and chance encounters of the street, Spano's images make strange incidents out of commonplace moments, revealing the odd nature of the daily world. With 77 duotone photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576871401
• ISBN13: 9781576871409
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.1" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Very Well Done Photography Book

I bought this book not long ago, and I really enjoy it. The photographs are both beautiful and mysterious. It is a must for anyone with an interest in artistic photography. Each photo tells a story...gives you a hint of a life. Spano is a great photgrapher of his time. I'm very interested in his other books and work. Buy it! It's great.

urban alive

Spano's work is unique and attuned to the urban experience. Through a multiplicity of approaches, he throws himself--camera lens first--into the continual flux, ego, and uncertainty that is New York and comes away with a document that breaths city. His techniques often require him to work intuitively across a flowing landscape, yet he continually matches the certainty and eloquence of photographers who spend hours on their compositions. It is photography that is--like the city he records over fixed time and changing light--familiar and yet often disturbing round the edges.