Philip Trager

The luminous and compelling photographs in New York in the 1970s capture the essence of a city in a way best described as "place portraiture." Trager's images present the architecture of Manhattan with time-defiant clarity and beauty. Although Trager selected his subjects for aesthetic and visual reasons—rather than from a historical or documentary point of view—with the passage of time,...

In Photographing Ina, Philip Trager, renowned for his black and white images, embraces colour for the first time. These striking and intimate photographs reveal Trager's sophisticated, complex use of colour, presenting an unanticipated and layered reality. The images are as much about the act of photographing, perception, colour and light, as they are about his subject, whose presence is a...