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Subject: [Leica] BEN Colen subway tunnel photos.
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Fri Jan 18 09:47:25 2008
References: <C3B63E0F.26C66%bd_colen@harvard.edu>

Ben's pictures look truly monumental.  I can try to imagine how monumental 
they look in 40x40 prints.   These were shot on film, I assume?    Some of 
them look like they have lots of daylight coming in -- is that actually the 
lights in the tunnels?

Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B.D. Colen" <bd_colen@harvard.edu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:31 AM
Subject: [Leica] BEN Colen subway tunnel photos.


> Finally...I have posted a half-dozen of my son Ben's medium and large 
> format
> images taken while wandering around the Boston T tunnels in 1999 and 2000
> after the trains stopped running at night. These are long time exposures,
> lit only by the dim bulbs a rider sees flicker by when riding the train
> through what seems to be an inky-dark tunnel.
>
> For my upcoming show at the Brookline Art Gallery I'll be hanging about 
> two
> dozen 8.5x11" black and white prints of from my series of T riders, and 
> will
> 'frame' those prints with two of Ben's color 40x40s of the tunnels.
>
> B. D.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bdcolen/BEN+COLEN/
>
>
>
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