If Edward Hopper was alive today and working as a photographer in New York City, these are the kinds of photographs I imagine he would take. Dreamy chromatic shots of Manhattan’s streets and store fronts in the poetic early hours, barely a soul around, filled with a sense of isolation, calm and stillness, except for the flickering of the odd time-worn neon sign… moments in the life of a real city.
Like Hopper, Brooklyn-based French artist Franck Bohbot loves capturing the poetry of everyday places and everyday people, including of course New York City at night – which he started doing as a passion project as soon as he set foot on US soil back in 2013. Today I’ve been discovering his work which has been turned into a lust-worthy coffee table book called Light On New York, one you could flick through (pun intended) for hours and hours.
Add Light On New York to your Christmas list now, or buy it here and here.
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I love these evocative, almost surreal pictures which truly capture New York by night.