Sep
20

We’ve seen all sorts of wonderful examples of creative people playing with light and long-exposure photography, but there is something extra special about these images. They might look like they were taken yesterday, but they were actually created by artist Eric Staller in New York during the 1970s. Eric used a 35mm Nikon camera, Christmas lights, and 4th of July sparklers to produce these awesome photographs.

“By day, Staller would walk around New York, studying the locations he felt would “articulate the particular choreography or architecture of light” that he wanted to express. At night, he would carefully position his camera on a tripod and, with the lens open for several minutes, he would purposefully move about urban spaces; outlining cars, streets and stairways and even forming magical-looking tunnels brought to life through his imagination.”

Eric Staller’s remarkable photos received a great deal of attention and were exhibited worldwide as Light Drawings, 1976-1980. He told My Modern Metropolis, “Even the most technical people in the photography world were mystified about how these photos were made.”

[via My Modern Metropolis]

Source mymodernmet.com

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    Awesome lights.
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    .By day, Staller would walk around New York, studying the locations he felt would articulate the particular choreography...
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    DEFINITELY one of the Most Impressive Light Drawings! :O
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