Neon Nights: Photographer Captures the Energy of Cities in Luminous Photographs

Life’s energy can be seen in light. It penetrates the nothingness and pulls us in. We can fill the space been light and dark with pulsating neon, gorgeous bright lights that illuminate the roadside and city. British photographer Gerry Cranham (born 1928), who took us into the heart to the crowd with his sensational sports photography, now shows us the night shaped by the throb of electric light.

In night scenes of New York City, London and Las Vegas from the 1960s, Gerry captures the thrill of seeing halos of bright hues appended against the black night sky as mankind’s wattage vies to usurp the moon and the give substance to life’s fragility. Rather than seeing the neon lights as part of messages to pull us in off the street and into restaurants and clubs, Cranham plays with them, creating transformative clusters of abstract images, so that words and signs show us how light sculpts, altering what we see and how we see it.

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Gerry Cranham’s photographs are available as archival prints in the Flashbak Shop.

 

Gerry Cranham’s photographs are available as archival prints in the Flashbak Shop.

 

 

You can buy prints of Gerry Cranham’s spellbinding photographs in the Flashbak shop.

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