Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. To the left trees and buildings are mixing, with the vertical lines of the frameshifts. In the center, two views down the center of the street, upside down upon each other, almost cancel each other out but leaves behind a vertically staggered image of buildings and trees. At the top of this are the backs of two upside-down cars and in the top right corner is a mail truck turned 90 degrees on its side and merged with a red brick building, upside down to the truck. The color scheme is yellows, greens, and red as the stronger colors and some light blues fill in.
DOWN THE STREET
2014 // 35MM MULTIPLE EXPOSURE // NEW YORK CITY [USA]
The Down The Street works came from an idea of “rolling” the street. It was a notion born for folding a map, the way the map moves distinct parts of the city onto itself in new ways, creating new exchanges and overlaps, showing how spaces in the city though far apart are still in relation and affecting each other.
The works here are from New York City, walking 3rd Ave from E15 to E125, shooting each street looking east. I made a similar project shooting a roll of film in four different cities over a period of five years: New York City, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Honolulu. See the works here.
See diagrams and explanations of the process here.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. Centered in the bottom a cap is driving away, into a building laying down from one of the other exposures. The street, trees and building are congealing at the bottom of the frame, while dissolving moving upward.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. A tree comes in from the top in a V-shape pointing towards a row of lying down stacked facades, over multiple horizontal V-shapes fading into the background.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. A large red brick building on the left is cut a the bottom by the sky moving around a distant highrise, while the right-side os taken over by trees moving around and dissolving a facade and shading a truck moving down the street.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. The composition is almost solved as an hourglass shape lying horizontally across the composition, leaving two rows of buildings at the top and bottom. The top ones are a few towers in the park, while the bottom are more traditional NYC walk-ups mirrored over each other, so their roofs points in opposite directions while their street levels merge.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. A large cap is moving towards us, next to a church spire, and a stretch of green coming from the right towards the left, where the composition starts to fade, where you can just read the word school on the road.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. The center right has a highrise hollowed out by the sky, so only its facades on either side are left; they seem to be standing on top of a truck lying horizontally and in the process of being unloaded. A white car drives down the middle of the composition on top of a building turned 90 degrees to the car’s orientation.
Visual Description: Four exposures (one on each side of the frame) taken down the cross streets along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2014. A light band primarily of sky cuts across the center of the composition, the top is dense with trees and buildings and cars, shimmering in the sun light. While the bottom is a bit more faded, a bus is seen parked on a building facade lying down, and the left side if a rich mixture of elements, where the word Parking can be made out.