DATE: August 11, 2009

Glitz & Grime: Photographs of Times Square at Yancey Richardson


Yet another broad take on New York City, this one zeroing in on a crossroads that photographers helped make famous. The five pictures on the opening wall range from 1947 to 1997, from Rudy Burckhardt to Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and are as choreographed as a modern dance, with silhouetted figures converging and separating.


ImageOlivo Barbieri, site specific_NEW YORK 07 (Horizontal Times Square), 2007, courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery
Olivo Barbieri's aerial view and Andrew Moore's shot of a sign-encrusted corner of Forty-second Street, both in super-saturated color, capture the site's current unreality.

Read the complete review in The New Yorker.





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