Passengers

Passengers"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.

august 1986

a restlessness presses in

and not the drawings for which he is known

In Nashville he became a diesel mechanic

37 color plates

her chauffeur

they perform for the camera and expose themselves with a frank self-awareness that is distinctly contemporary

or by selectively dwelling on positive aspects of the place and its people to offset problematic stereotypes

Jack Nicholson

Started his own business

"We are all too aware that when we die

Gertrude Stein