Vertical New Yorkers

Regardless of how hamann collected this grab of vertical new yorkers to come in off the street and do the implausiblr - close their eyes before a stanger in broad daylight - it is clear that the situation activated a sense of opportunity in some while inducing anxiety in others. One sure she us being scammed ; another believes this is her big chance. In the gap between these two attittudes, New York exists.
" You see someone on the street ", Diane arbu once wrote " and what you notice is the flaw. " Hosrt Hamann is a very different New York photographer than Diane Arbus and a very different german photographer than Auguste Sander. To him, there are no freaks and no types. He sees someone on the street, and gives you her goodness. There are not photographs of others. These arz photographs of ourselves.