John Schabel, Laramie, Wyoming

a small horizontal patch of light at the lower center of the mostly black photograph picks out the mountainous horizon line, while the night sky above is streaked with moving stars, marking how long john schabel took to expose this picture of laramie wyoming in 1998
John Schabel, Laramie, Wyoming, 1998, 36-in gelatin silver print, image via johnschabel.net

Woke up thinking about John Schabel for some reason, his Cities and Towns series of night landscape photographs from the western US, lit only by the light of a far off city. Or town. They’re extraordinary, large-format gelatin silver prints to get lost in front of.

John Schabel [johnschabel.net]