Gary Schneider.(Brief Article)

When South African-born, New York-based photographer Gary Schneider began making portraits of friends and acquaintances in 1989, he took as his model Julia Margaret Cameron's soulful, sepia-toned albumen prints and other nineteenth-century photographs that required sitters to remain still for up to eight minutes while the open lens absorbed their image.

Schneider, who has no interest in the "decisive moment," liked the idea of recording a subject over time, and, in effect, making time his subject: "I wanted to get away from the whole nature of modern technology, which ...

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