Interesting Photographers

Morten Anderson

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Morten Andersen (b. 1965), who studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, made an installation of his book of black-and-white photos, Days of Night (2003). He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other. In between, the book's images are projected onto the wall at movie scale. These photos, which suggest frames from noir films, were shot in a variety of places, especially New York City and Japan. There are grubby city streets, a woman gripping her breasts, the feet of someone passed out on a subway platform, an equestrian statue in a grim winter park, Japanese schoolgirls in uniforms looking out of a skyscraper window, weeds against a cement wall. One copy of the book is available for viewers' perusal, but it's placed behind a pillar, so that you can't see the projections at the same time.