RE: Red Light was: [Leica] Project: what's your

["Vozeh, Colin" <cvozeh@longitude.com>]

It's here at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3905509210/o/qid=975610268/sr=8-1/ref
=aps_sr_b_1_3/107-9024497-6428541

"During the summer of 1997, Kurt Caviezel photographed through his window
drivers and passengers stopped at the red traffic light outside his
apartment on a busy Zurich intersection. Shot through a 1000 mm telephoto
lens, double-glazed windowpane and curved car windshield, Caviezel
photographs are subjected to distorted and reflected rays of light, giving
the images a certain atmospheric distance and detached perspective, and
emphasizing the interior details of the car and the behavior of its
occupants. Organized into different categories--displays of affection,
eating, exasperation, strange objects in the front seat, inspecting one's
body--these images capture the portions of our lives played out in car
seats, and the strange behaviors we have developed to pass the time in
transit from point a to point b."

Seems very cool!  I guess you'd have to call this the ultimate in street
photography.  1000mm lens!  I don't have it yet, but asked Santa for it.
There was a brief but positive preview of it in American Photo magazine
several months back. 

C. 


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Guy Bennett [mailto:guybnt@idt.net] 
Sent:	Thursday, November 30, 2000 12:16 PM
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	Re: [Leica] Project: what's your

>I've also had in mind a project for a coffee table book to photograph the
>objects that people hang from their rear view mirrors of their cars and the
>cars and the people themselves.
>[snip]
>Carpe Luminem,
>Michael E. Berube


michael,

on a related topic... i recently saw a book called 'red light' at a local
borders. it is made up of a series of tightly cropped (telephoto?) black
and white images of people sitting in their cars stopped at red lights. the
photos resemble ethnographic body posture studies and are quite
interesting, especially as a group.

have you seen it?

guy


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