Time Frames: City Pictures Hardcover - 2002

New York: PowerHouse Books, 2002. Cloth, 109 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Includes an Artist's Note. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, November to December 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Features Spano's street photography blending the temporal and the spatial. Black-and-white photographs arranged by: Panoramas; Grids; Portraits; Multi-Exposures; and Diptychs. Susan Kismaric is curator at MoMA's Department of Photography. "Time Frames, Michael Spano's long-awaited first monograph, catalogs the artist's exploration of spatial and temporal dimensions in photography. The book is divided into five chapters: Panoramas, Grids, Portraits, Multi-Exposures, and Diptychs; each employs a distinctive technical process to provide a new way of looking at life in New York City. Panoramas (1977-1983) shows interacting urbanites moving through elongated frames as the lens of an extremely wide field camera pans during exposure. Grids (1980-1990) captures eight moments on a single negative as Spano moves through a sequence of events, pre-determinedly exposing a portion of the grid every four seconds. Portraits (1984-1990) focuses on individual inhabitants transformed and etched out from their settings through the solarization and blurring forms into an atmospheric world. Multi-Exposures (1985-1998) combines solarizations with multiple perspectives. These single-negative layered compositions orchestrate and compress selected intervals of time and space into one image. Diptychs (1998-1999) fuses two distinct moments on one negative where scale, focal planes, and perspectives shift and comprise a dual image of urban spaces." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Spano, Michael (Photography by). 4to. Collectible.