bio:
Lynn Saville is known internationally for her photographs of cityscapes at twilight or, in her words, “the boundary time between night and day.” During these fleeting moments, she captures deserted or nearly deserted streets dreaming their own dreams.
Saville has published her work in three major monographs: Acquainted with the Night (Rizzoli, 1997), with an introduction by Joseph Rosa; Night/Shift (Random House/Monacelli, 2009), with an introduction by Arthur C. Danto; and Dark City (Damiani, Bologna, 2015), with an introduction by Geoff Dyer.
A review of Saville’s work in The New Yorker called it “luminous,” and Geoff Dyer included an essay on her work in his book See/Saw, Looking at Photographs (Graywolf Press, 2021).
Saville is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, which held an exhibition of her work earlier this year. She has won many awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2022–2023 and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts.
Statement:
In this photograph taken from an elevated subway platform, the setting sun casts a strong directional light on the side of the red building singling it our and causing it to glow. By contrast, the red color of the building’s front is obscured in shadow. The changing light of sunset and twilight affects our perception of colors in the cityscape.
