Photographs on a Street

Should photographs look any special way? I don’t think so, at least no more so than drawings.  In the 1950s  Ellsworth Kelly made drawings on a bus. During the trip the artist  noticed shadows falling on the pages of a notebook, and allowed their chance permutations to dictate the abstract compositions that he drew on each page.

I made these images in a similar spirit. Without looking through the viewfinder of my camera I allowed a small lens  aperture, a slow shutter speed, and the arbitrary movements of my body to determine the nature  of the photographs.

I welcome viewers to reflect upon these images individually, but I’d also encourage them to  consider the images as potential raw material for creating an almost limitless  number of ephemeral  sequences,  grids, and collaged compositions.

All of the photographs were taken at the same location, on Twenty-third street in Manhattan.