John Schabel: Passengers

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Twin Palms, 2018. Hardcover. New. "John Schabel’s (born 1957) series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal effi ciency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel. Like products on an assembly line, the planes carrying Schabel’s subjects churn down the runway; and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge, identically framed, from his camera and onto the gallery wall. Interestingly, it is precisely this mechanized process that lays bare the active, but often overlooked, emotional and intellectual relationship between human beings and flight.” —Laura M. Andre Show more