Fine Print: Laser light, wall of empty room. New York City, 1977 David Seymour casting a radiant presence over

casting a radiant presence over the darkened landscape

Framed by soft clouds and distant buildings

Whether photographing Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe or immigrants newly arrived in New York

In her first assignment of 1957

Fine Print: Laser light, wall of empty room. New York City, 1977 David Seymour casting a radiant presence overErich Hartmanns signature style is enigmatic, unfinished and ambiguous. He was never without a camera loaded with black and white film and a small box of extra rolls, which he used to capture what intrigued him. Hartmann began his photographic career in New York City, which would become his home for the rest of his life, and documented the people, patterns and abstract images of this city that so fascinated him. Hartmann saw pictures everywhere.