Baruch Has Art, too!
Do not be daunted by Baruch as a business-oriented college – it has many artistically talented students as well. One of them is Goseong Choi, whose photography caught my eye as I was looking through the school’s literary magazine, Encounters. Choi’s urban photography shows a more sophisticated side to New York City that I fail to see on a daily basis. I was quite impressed with his “Subway Show” photographs of subway window graffiti. Normally I would find subway windows to be extremely dirty and uninteresting subjects, but he is able to make it visually appealing with silhouettes of passengers waiting on a platform in the background. His panorama of Astor Place gives the street a very hip and yuppie feeling with dimly lit stores. My favorite, though, is the photograph of the 6 train station. I pass by it every day and yet he captured it with such stunning colors like that of a warm, sunny afternoon. Choi’s photography takes the viewer away from preconceptions of a dingy, dull city.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
It’s always nice to see a beautiful spin on something so mundane and ugly like the subways.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am
The art of photography is very beautiful and the photographer uses their own artistic talents to make it even more beautiful.