Planes, Trains, and Perspective – The Photos of David Rothenberg

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The photos of David Rothenberg are some of the most exciting that we have seen in a while. Condensed and entangled compositions of airplanes over urban housing and portraits of travelers, through plane windows or bathed in a holy light at a train station. His work is provocative, playful, and compassionate and asks us to look at compositions and subjects carefully, addressing issues of isolation and hope. On this episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we will ask how a fine-art photographer works his way through the neighborhoods and transportation hubs of Queens, NY making such insightful images.

Rothenberg’s books, Landing Lights Park and Roosevelt Station are wonderful series and with him we discuss the evolution of these projects, the gear and locations he chose, how he interacts with subjects and the editing and sequencing of the books.

Guest: David Rothenberg

Photograph (detail) © David Rothenberg

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0:51.2	Now here's your host, Alan White.
0:54.4	Greetings and welcome to the B&H Photography podcast today!
0:57.5	John and I welcome Photography David Rothenberg to the show.
1:01.1	David makes his home in the burrow of Queens, New York.
1:03.7	And we mention this because it's where cleverly engages and depicts the visual details of this
1:08.2	metropolitan malaange, as they say, which is home to LaGuadi Airport, the US Tennis Center,
1:14.9	the Naguchi Museum, and the Seven Train.
1:17.8	That's important, by the way.
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