Waiting to Take Flight (9 Photos)
All images © John Schabel, from the book Passengers
The images contained in photographer John Schabel’s recently released book, Passengers, published by Twin Palms, documents the in-between time of airplane travel and the state of mind of the traveler–a mixture of excitement, trust, wonder and reflection.
Schabel describes the series as a meditation on the strangers framed in little windows, waiting to take flight. “Suspended between departure and arrival, we sit 30,000 feet high, sealed in a metal tube, gliding over geography with a low hum,” he says.
The International Center of Photography in New York City will host a book signing event for Passengers on Friday, February 8, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Tags: books, John Schabel, New York City, Twin Palms Publishers
February 7th, 2013 at 1:09 pm EEDT
Not that interesting -but we’re used to that on Photo Of The Day- when you’ve already seen the Tokyo subway photos of Michael Wolf, http://photomichaelwolf.com/#tokyo-compression/1
February 13th, 2013 at 7:28 pm EEDT
Jakob Schiller at Raw File Blog makes some good points about these photos in an article (astutely) titled “You’d Be Arrested if You Tried to Take These Airplane Photos Today.”
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/02/john-schabel-airplane-passengers-portraits/