Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] BEN Colen subway tunnel photos.
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jan 18 10:01:35 2008

NO daylight. NO station lights. Just the pathetic little bulbs on the tunnel
walls. Really amazing. And yes, they were shot on film - 2 1/4 and 4x5.


On 1/18/08 12:46 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:

> 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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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] BEN Colen subway tunnel photos.)
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