Sunday, January 4, 2009

Michael Itkoff


- While I was at Strand last week I picked up a copy of Michael Itkoff's book Street Portraits. Although I had only known him as being one of the founding editors of Daylight Magazine and not by his work the book was only $14 and looked interesting. For the project Itkoff traveled throughout the world to cities such as London, Hanoi, Sydney, Bangkok, and New York taking pictures of everyday people in the street. Having an assistant hold up a white backdrop only behind the subjects head and shoulders Itkoff creates a striking aesthetic isolating the subjects from their urban contexts and allowing them to exist in a shared visual space as part of the same extended family. See more of his work here.



© Michael Itkoff

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