Florian Bohm Wait for Walk

Florian B hm's recent Endcommerical/Reading the City, produced in collaboration with Wolfgang Scheppe and Luca Pizzaroni, demonstrated B hm's infallible eye for the narrative details of city life with a study of what urbanists call "street furniture"--construction barriers, traffic signs and other sidewalk presences. This follow-up, Wait for Walk,turns the same cataloging eye to the humans navigating around those urban buoys. B hm photographs passersby standing before traffic signals: motionless or fidgeting, lost in thought or deep in conversation, staring at nothing or sidetracked by a cell phone, chosen for him and posed for him by chance. Whether New Yorkers or tourists, rich or poor, their shared circumstance, a momentary pause, draws attention to the astonishing wealth of information each projects in posture, expression, clothing and possessions, wearing their identities on their sleeves. B hm was born in Germany in 1969 and lives in New York.Böhm, Florian is the author of 'Florian Bohm Wait for Walk', published 2007 under ISBN 9783775719070 and ISBN 3775719075.