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From
September 28 through November 4, 2006,
Laurence Miller
Gallery will present Michael Spano: Auto Portraits, a selection of 16
recent large-scale black-and-white photographs.
In
this recent series, Spano, the quintessential
New York
photographer, has focused his lens on the ubiquitous car and truck
drivers that dictate the pulse of
New York
’s streets. Within vehicles named
Liberty
, Grand Cherokee, and Saturn, which draw attention to
America
’s current obsession with bigness, Spano captures the intimate
gestures and expressions of their occupants.
With classic Spano virtuosity, each image is packed with
details, word fragments, reflections and even fingerprints that take
the viewer on a topsy-turvy journey through the contemporary urban
landscape.
For over twenty years, this 57-year old native New Yorker has captured
the unique energy and the vitality of
New York
while significantly adding to the vocabulary of street photography.
Whether by employing a panoramic camera, an eight-lens
multiple-exposure camera, or in this series a more traditional
single-lens camera, Spano has enlarged our awareness of how a
photograph can look and how the city can be captured.
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