Manhattan View is New York at the end of the day, built from Charlotte's own photographs of the city. Using her signature multi layer photographic technique, Charlotte composites many of her own frames into one image, the way a film editor assembles a scene from many takes. Six of the photographs were taken from up high at different times, looking out over the rooftops. One was taken from the sidewalk, looking up, and that is the one crossing the sky: whole facades of windows running diagonally through the clouds. The artwork is standing on the street and looking down on it at the same time. So it holds several times of day at once. The sky is still sunset, gold along the cloud line with blue above it. The streets below have already gone dark. Windows are lit, headlights and taillights run in long red and white lines down the avenue, and the traffic signs glow green. It was daylight when she took the one from the sidewalk. One World Trade Center rises at the right with its spire, taller than anything around it. Windows sit inside other windows, a tower carries another tower through it, and the frame is stacked deep enough that you keep finding another building inside the one you were looking at. Get close and there are empty offices with the lights still on. This is not a moment. It is Manhattan from daylight through to dark, held in one frame. This work is part of The Breathe Series, Charlotte Fonne's landscapes and cityscapes, where reality merges with the echoes of memory. Each image in the composition is personally photographed by Charlotte, ensuring a genuine and unique piece. Signed, numbered, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Limited edition. Only 5 to 20 prints per size exist in the world.
