Passengers silas-finch "Across the specific differences among

"Across the specific differences among Goicolea’s works

and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge

by the celebrated New Mexican poet Jimmy Santiago Baca

Bachardy's drawings are in the permanent collections of England's National Portrait Gallery and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pompeii-like stillness

Passengers silas-finch "Across the specific differences among"John Schabels series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel. Like products on an assembly line, the planes carrying Schabels subjects churn down the runway; and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge, identically framed, from his camera and onto the gallery wall.