Artist Moves In Fast And Slow Motions
City Gallery exhibit features William Frucht's street photography
By Brian Slattery (March 2026)
It's a jumble of faces on a street corner in what could be lower Manhattan. The first points of interest lie in the people's faces, the dynamism and multiplicity of their expressions, senses of weariness and alertness. They're the looks of people on the go. But the camera's lens captures something else, too, an interesting shadow that obscures some to all of some of the faces, setting off those in full sun in greater contrast. It's not just the people and their feelings that this picture has caught in its butterfly net of a shot; it's the quality of the air, which perhaps lasted no more than a second, and was gone.