Urban Spell

A Tribute to New York.

The Danish photographer Torkil Gudnason has lived in New York since 1978, building a stellar career as a fashion photographer. In the book Urban Spell, he now presents a new series dedicated to the city that has proved an inexhaustible wellspring of inspiration for his creative genius. Eschewing the metropolis' picture-postcard motifs, he instead takes photographs that record its architecture in its everyday nonchalance. Gudnason's compositions convey his very personal perspective on his adopted home--a city whose urban iconography has always been defined by excess in the pursuit of superlatives. With a conversation with the artist by Dana Kopel.