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'Vertiginous Exhilaration'Luxenburg is a photographer known for her photographs of urban streets at night. She seeks out run down city locations, such as Hackney, which are lively and populated during day time, and shoots them at night when only the shadows and eerie street light occupy the city. This allows the viewer to see the city from a fresh and new perspective. By using a slow shutter speed she allows herself to use light from street lamps and office blocks as her only source of light, giving a genuine and sinister appearance to the photos. Some of her photos could be labeled as abstract - reflections of street lights in the puddles of cracked pathways which are sometimes hard to depict. some could argue that her photos show night life in the city as quite subdued. This is suggested by the stillness of the photos - there's rarely any people seen in her photos. The emptyness of the photos give a uneasy and almost sinister impresion of the usually lively city.
The tones in her photos are neutral and very rich, this breathes life into the image; even though the subject matter is still, the images look charasmatic; they have personality.
By shooting the photos from unusual angles (for example, the above image 'Vertiginous Exhilaration') places and objects are seen from a new perspective, causing the viewer to question the image.
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