New York
Abe blacked out a high floor and let the city cook on the furniture. New York is full of rooms that behave like cameras: holes, skyspaces, midnight screens, and people still pouring collodion.
What to see
Museums, street, odd rooms, and the work we shot. Picked for the same problem as the episode.
James Turrell, Meeting
A hole in the ceiling at MoMA PS1. You sit. The sky becomes the picture. Same thesis as Abe's room, inverted: instead of the city entering, the atmosphere is the only image.
International Center of Photography
The city's photography school and museum, now on Essex. If the episode is about a room becoming a camera, this is where New York keeps the rest of that argument.
Times Square Arts, Midnight Moment
Every night at 11:57 the ads cut out and the square becomes a single artwork for three minutes. Abe projected Times Square onto a bed. Here the square projects itself.
Penumbra Foundation
Tintype, camera obscura, historic processes. A working 19th-century photo lab in Manhattan. Book a plate. Watch chemistry become a face.
Edwynn Houk Gallery
Abe's New York gallery. Tent-camera work, camera obscura interiors, the pictures that prove the episode is not a stunt.
The city as negative
Times Square on a bedspread. Manhattan Bridge on chairs. This is what we went there to make.
If you want the work
MoMA, the Met, the Getty, Edwynn Houk. Or stand in a dark room of your own and cut the hole. That is the visit.
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