Video: Square: top view. Urban photos by Adam Magyar
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Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Calcutta, New York … Brownian movement of the townspeople is fascinating, it makes you dizzy. It is almost impossible to see a pedestrian in the crowd: a minute - and he disappeared from sight. Following the example of the philosopher Diogenes, Adam Magyar is looking for a person - but not with a lantern, but with a camera. Hundreds of shots are combined into a panorama that you can look at, as if aiming binoculars at the photo.
Hungarian photographer Adam Magyar believes that the modern city is an interesting subject for a naturalist to observe. You don't have to travel a long way to explore outlandish animals. One has only to open a window on a noisy street or a large square - and you can observe the most curious view - Homo sapiens.
Life is always in full swing on the square. From a bird's eye view, people are "tiny, tiny, just like mice … sorry, like Chris". Or even insects: perhaps, in fact, each person is strung on a pin, we just don't notice it from afar? A series of urban photographs by Adam Magyar entitled "Squares" is an illustrated book about the life of the metropolis.
Urban photographs are more often images of buildings and other landmarks. But the "Square" project is not about urban architecture, but about the inhabitants of the metropolis. The space that Adam Magyar shows us is fictional, generalized, devoid of individual features. This is "the area in general." The people who follow it are much more interesting.
Adam Magyar filmed pedestrians from a fairly close distance - from a height of 3-4 meters. But the need to show that these people are not lonely, but are part of a moving system, forced the photographer to stitch together dozens of pictures. This is how special urban photographs with hand-made crowds of real people turned out.
You can look at city dwellers from a bird's eye view on the photographer's website.
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