The Bowery, 1979
These black & white images were made in 1979 from my second-floor, street-facing window on the Bowery between Prince and Houston streets. On Sundays, shoppers made their way to Manhattan from Brooklyn and elsewhere; return traffic invariably backed up for blocks to get back over the Manhattan Bridge. As traffic inched forward, the people looking out of their car windows took in the surroundings in detail, eventually arriving at me as a focal point. In converting these black + white images to color, I digitally painted them as a means of re-imagining the exchanges as something slower and deeper, both in terms of my interest in them and theirs in me.