Charlie Citron Photos

Scaffold, 2002

Hardware, 2003

Neon, 2002

Subway Sandwich, 2005

Image Man, 2005

125th Street Station, Harlem, 2009

Chinese Restaurant, 2009

Colored Drinks, 2009

Straws, 2009

Cuban Diner, 2009

Ice-Cream Store, 2009

Manhattan Street, 2009

Papaya King, 2009

Papayas & Bananas, 2009

Queens, 2009

Queens House, 2009

New York Meltdown

In hindsight with foresight I began to make wax emulsion photos of NY entitled NY MeltDown in 1999. I did not know that the events of the early 21^st century in NY would lend itself as narrative to the descriptive expressionistic quality of the work.

As a NewYorker I remember those distinct beedy eyed summers where heatwaves would reflect off the concrete and glass of downtown to create mirages and elastic distortions. The street would melt away leaving tar impressions and the people would morph together in a glazed urban vision accentuated and punctuated by the atmospheric sinage and concrete echoes of city noise.

Later after the events of Sept 1l and the subsequent Wall Street crash of 2007, I began to realize that the feeling in my photos of perceptual uncertainty and three dimensional potential was always there, flickering like neon rain off a car window on Broadway with Jazz playing on the radio.

NY is not only unlimited energy and communication. It is the real movement of goods and people. The effort and the beauty of usage. Rusty bridges suspended against glittering surfaces, space and action. It is this feeling of three dimensional change and the shifting spaces of form and actuality that heightens the city senses.

My impressionistic photos approach this sensation by colorizing distorting and perforating the skin of the image.

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