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Photographer spends years on street corner capturing same commuters daily (2017)


Street photographer Peter Funch's new book, "42nd and Vanderbilt," shows his documentation of the same street corner in New York City over 9 years.

From 2007 to 2016 Funch carried out his project 42nd and Vanderbilt in which he captures the same person twice, mid-commute, leaving the viewer to wonder if they were photographed days, months, or even years apart. This simple surveillance exercise lets viewers ponder the small daily rituals we take for granted and also invited them into as an observer, picking apart each image to discover what has changed and what remains the same. In these stolen moments, we see Funch's subjects lost in thought, fraught with worry, even eyes closed as if in divine ecstasy.

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