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Article: A flash ... then night. (photographer Beat Streuli)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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A city crowd: we know nothing of the people who stream past us, their states of mind, or even what has brought them out in the street - perhaps some errand, perhaps simple pleasure. And it is precisely this not knowing that attracts us to Beat Streuli's photographs.
Consider a sequence of images: a girl in a green T-shirt, seen from the back, stands in front of the blue cab of a truck. By the fourth photograph she has disappeared between the white shirts of two passersby. In a single photograph a boy in a jeans jacket, bent forward, is glimpsed between the rear of a bus, above, and the roof of a car, below. We can deduce that he is on a bicycle and waiting for a ...