umental. Washington Square is day-lit in the foreground
and appears as a giant compass-like circle punctuated
by the arch.
My two favorite photographs of ���Day to Night��� could not
be more different from one another. The first, Highline
is of the park implanted on old elevated tracks. This is
the new urban landscape���the infrastructure of the past
converted to entertainment. The second photograph is
an almost classical rendition of a snow covered Central
Park. The only colors in this image are white and blue.
Wilkes in these images shows us, not the New York of
Steichen���or even Weegee���but the New York of the
near-future. The night-day dichotomy is not a gimmick
but a symbol of things to come���that light of day can be
created at a whim turning the city into a 24-hour theatre.
These are remarkable portraits of a new humanistic urban environment. H
Lisa Zeiger
Stephen Wilkes
Photography
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