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A Voyeuristic Peek Into Strangers' Lives
Gail Albert Halaban was first inspired to train her artistic gaze through others’ windows during a period of personal tragedy. While her five-year-old son was in the hospital for serious heart surgery, the photographer contemplated the nature of modern care, which allowed doctors to glimpse her son’s medical realities through electronic devices.
“I realized all the technology in a hospital is remote. The doctors were monitoring my son’s heart from a different floor. They could look inside his body without being near him. I realized I could look at the world in the same way,” she told the British Journal of Photography.
Chelsea, Penn South, Anita Checking on Lou, 2008
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Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Upper East Side, 1438 3rd Avenue, Baby at window, 2008
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Chelsea, West 26th Street between Brodway and 6th Avenue, 2009
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Chelsea, Bumblebee and Bottle, 2010
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Midtown East, 57 East 57th Street, Into the four Seasons, 2010
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)
Upper East Side, Bubbles, 2007
Gail Albert Halaban (Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff)