Book: Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, July 28, 2008 5:49 PM | permalink

Todd Lappin says:

Photographer Troy Paiva has a new book out, and it's chock full of superb nighttime photos taken at abandoned military bases, aircraft boneyards, auto junkyards, and other wonderfully desolate places. Troy's book is called Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration, and it makes heavy use of his favorite photo technique: Iong-exposure nighttime shots that uses only natural moonlight and simple flashlights to capture ruined night scenes in spooky detail.

The pictures in Night Visions look great, and this Friday, August 1, Chronicle Books is throwing a party to celebrate the its release in San Francisco at the 111 Minna Gallery from 7 to 9 pm.
Here's a gallery of images from the book. Here's what I posted about it on Telstar Logistics.

Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration

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#1 posted by saichan , July 28, 2008 6:45 PM

Troy's work is indeed superb.

There's an extensive interview with him discussing his new book, his past work and its correlations with J.G. Ballard here:
http://www.ballardian.com/light-painter-mojave-d-troy-paiva

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#2 posted by echolocate chocolate , July 28, 2008 9:43 PM

Mmmmm... looks like a giant salami

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#3 posted by JamesProvost

, July 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Wishlisted!

I've been following Henk van Rensbergen's adventures into forbidden territory for years. Can't get enough.
http://www.abandoned-places.com/
http://www.amazon.ca/Abandoned-Places-Henk-van-Rensbergen/dp/9020970305/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I215RXDEOAR3HU&colid=1U06LTXA7UXNM

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#4 posted by Flashman , July 29, 2008 5:13 AM

Verdant Meadows!

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#5 posted by Anonymous , July 29, 2008 9:26 AM

I am guessing he is related to Tom Paiva, who does similar work, and has a fine book called "Industrial Night".

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#6 posted by Andrew Ferguson , July 29, 2008 9:51 AM

You can also purchase a signed copy of the book direct from the author's site at;

http://www.lostamerica.com/book.html

That's what I did :)

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#7 posted by bolamig , July 29, 2008 10:54 AM

Glad to see Troy continuing this work. Night photography is a back to the future way of working, manually focussing and manually setting most everything on the camera.

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#8 posted by byronba , July 29, 2008 12:12 PM

On my wishlist as well.

These all look great! Especially the shots in Byron, CA (hee-hee).

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#9 posted by OM

, July 29, 2008 2:39 PM

..That's a photo just waiting for an ad campaign! Just goes to show you that any disaster can be beautiful if you light it up properly :-)

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#10 posted by saichan , July 29, 2008 4:46 PM

#5, yes troy and tom are related. he talks about brother tom's work in the interview i linked to.

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