Untitled
Nicolas Faure
Swiss, born 1949
May 1980
A chromogenic color photograph that quietly stages a moment on a city sidewalk, the photographer aiming to reveal the unnoticed rhythms and tensions of everyday urban life.
You feel the tight, documentary crop—three women at staggered depths with downcast expressions, their coats and a parked van boxed against storefront signs and a distant skyline, all rendered in crisp daylight and rich, everyday colors.
Made as color gained acceptance in serious photography, the image exemplifies a late-20th-century shift toward treating ordinary urban moments as worthy subjects, using commercial color printing to give them vivid immediacy.
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
8 1/8 × 12" (20.6 × 30.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
191.1981
Palette
Exhibitions
