These photographs have also served as a basis for rethinking urbanism, seeing the city as a visual concept of the mind rather than an entity specifically detailed by traditional mapping. In the future, Vasconcellos would like to continue to use the same techniques and equipment to produce a similar artistic essay with night visions of New York.

Martha Takayama
Executive Director
Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston

All photographs are inkjet prints from Polaroid SX-70
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Biographical information for
Cássio Vasconcellos:

Cássio Vasconcellos was born in 1965, in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he works and lives. Largely self-taught, he has been a photographer since the age of 16. He has been recognized internationally for his experiments with numerous innovative photographic techniques and styles. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in Brazil and abroad, including Fotofest, Houston; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; the Museo de Arte Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Mois de la Photo, Paris; Photographs, Stedelijk, Museum, Amsterdam; and Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston. His work is in the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; among others.