Jeremy Kidd, Times Square photocollage
Jeremy Kidd photographed Times Square from a single spot over five days and nights, running exposures up to three minutes long. He worked around the clock and caught the square across a week of changing light, then rebuilt the scene in Photoshop from about 100 separate exposures, stacking more than 650 layers to reconstruct every building, sign, and slab of pavement.
Times Square empties out by 4am, and half the lights shut off. Kidd removed most of the people his long exposures had caught and kept a few blurred figures, almost apparitions, to mark the time the shutter stayed open. Streaks of car light run through the piece the way a long exposure paints them. The result reads at the scale of the city, not the scale of a person standing in it.
This is print #2 of 8. It has hung in a private New York City home, out of direct sunlight, and it shows no wear.
Specifications
- ArtistJeremy Kidd, Los Angeles
- TitleTimes Square, 2007
- Edition2/8
- MediumArchival print on aluminum
- Dimensions33 × 84 in
- ConditionExcellent. No direct sunlight exposure.
$16,000
Plus shipping. It's in New York, on the Upper West Side, and you're welcome to pick it up or arrange your own carrier.