Let’s call it “Snow’s Paradox,” and it applies to the man himself: famous and neglected, celebrated and obscure. The key to his work is this balance of opposites, held in place by a vision and sensibility that is by turns precise, ironic, and philosophical, often with a strong dose of Duchampian humor. It is a remark that typifies his calculated and cerebral approach to art, yet no sooner does one characterize his work as such than the opposite arises, for Wavelength is also a work of great passion and intensity. “I shot Wavelength in three weeks after thinking about it for a year,” Michael Snow once said of his 1967 masterpiece. Portrait of Michael Snow, pencil on paper by Phong H. (Pier 34, Hudson River) By Raphael Rubinstein (Coney Island, 42nd Street, the Meatpacking District, among other locations) By Raphael Rubinstein (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx) By Raphael Rubinstein (The West Side Highway) By Raphael Rubinstein
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