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Acquainted With the Hour That Falls Before the Night

Danto, Ginger

2003

Overview

After undergraduate studies at Duke University in her native North Carolina, Ms. [Lynn Saville] moved to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, where students were encouraged to go out after class and shoot whatever they found interesting. At that after-school interlude, between day's end and edge of night, she came to know Brooklyn like a thief. Along with her tripod and trusty Leica, she carried into the vacant reaches of the borough mental snapshots from masters of nocturnal imagery like Brassai and Hitchcock. At a given spot, she waited for the picture she felt was there to happen. Safety was a passing consideration. Here are the old lamplights of Montmartre that at some final hour shine for no one, or the filigree of festival lights that in the distance look like snowfall, strung over the Rialto Bridge. Or again, Brooklyn, where Ms. Saville regularly returns to familiar spots where, she says hopefully, ''some new element -- a headlight, an open window -- can single out objects in a different compositional dance.'' Lynn Saville's photograph ''Awning and Lights, Rialto Bridge (Venice)'' (2001), is part of her continuing exploration of cities. (Lynn Saville/Yancey Richardson Gallery)

• Publisher: New York Times Company
• Subject: Art exhibits / Photographers / Photography / Saville, Lynn