Ádám Magyar
Urban Flow 1364, New York

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Artist Ádám Magyar(Hungarian, born 1972)Hungarian, born 1972

CultureHungarian

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Urban Flow 1364, New York

Date2009, printed 2015

Place depictedNew York, New York, United States

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 23 7/8 × 43 7/8 in. (60.6 × 111.4 cm)
Sheet: 24 3/8 × 49 5/16 in. (61.9 × 125.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern

Object number2015.399

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionÁdám Magyar has a long-standing interest in “in-between times,” capturing people moving about the urban environment. In his Urban Flow series, Magyar captures fleeting moments in time that neither the human eye nor a conventional camera can see, stretching milliseconds into minutes and freezing time with a seemingly impossible resolution. To capture the ceaseless procession of pedestrians, he uses a homemade slit camera (like those used to determine photo finishes at racetracks and sporting events) that creates long, narrow images by combining thousands of sequential, pixel-wide scanned slices into a single image. The people and vehicles at the far right of the image passed the sensor a few minutes before those on the far left.
ProvenanceThe artist, 2015; [Julie Saul Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.

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