Stephen Wilkes Day to Night: Times Square, New York 1020 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The only time Times Square has ever been quiet, and it took a bomb scare.

Stephen Wilkes photographs a single place from one fixed position for many hours, then blends the frames into one image that moves from daylight to night across the scene. This one looks down on Times Square from a rooftop. Partway through the shoot, police cleared the square for a security scare, so parts of the most crowded intersection in New York sit almost empty.

Here the shadows carry the night and the sunlit patches carry the day, so the light changes block by block across the image rather than in one neat sweep. The billboards are a gift; the grey of the street and the buildings is not.

Perfect for: People who love New York in theory and would rather not stand in Times Square in practice.

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