Przez ponad dekadę Michael Wesely fotografowal miejski pejzaz, naswietlajac film kilka tysięcy razy dłużej niż normalnie. Niektóre z jego klatek były naswietlane przez ponad dwadzieścia sześć miesięcy.
For over a decade the German photographer Michael Wesely has been
inventing and refining techniques for using extremely long camera
exposures to take compelling images, often prolonging the exposure many
thousands of times longer than normal. Some of his pictures of Berlin's
Potsdamer Platz, in a series completed in 1999, were continuously
exposed over twenty-six months. The results are as surprising as they
are beautiful. In 2001, when The Museum of Modern Art was commencing
its ambitious renovation and construction project, it recognised in
Wesely's work an unequalled opportunity to document the construction
process in an artistically serious way. Some three years after setting
up his cameras Wesely's images were complete. Their pentimento-like
strata of transparencies and overlays render the project's evolution in
time as a dense and delicate network in space.
