Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information