Michael Wesely : ‘Long Exposures’ (Photography)

‘Long Exposure’
9 August 2001 – 2 May 2003
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chromogenic color print

‘Long Exposure’
6 August 1999 – 6 December 2000
Leipziger Platz, Berlin
Chromogenic color print

‘Long Exposure’
4 April 1997 – 4 June 1999
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Chromogenic color print

‘Long Exposure’
9 August 2001 – 7 June 2004
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chromogenic color print

‘Long Exposure’
7 August 2001 – 7 June 2004
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Chromogenic color print

For more than a decade, Michael Wesely has been inventing and refining techniques for making photographs with unusually long exposures-some as long as three years. In 1997 he began using this unique approach to photography to explore major urban construction projects, such as the rebuilding of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Buildings that are demolished or constructed over the course of Wesely’s long exposures often appear ghostlike, evoking simultaneously a vanishing and emerging presence.

[Extract : MoMA]

Michael Wesely : Website