What/Who:

Webster University's May Gallery presents Michael Hintlian "No Transfer: Photographs from Public Transportation."

When: August 31-Sept. 21, 2012

Opening reception Friday, Sept. 7, 5-7 p.m.

Gallery talk with Mr. Hintlian on Sept. 7, 3 p.m.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Where: May Photography Gallery, Sverdrup Building, Webster University, 8300 Big Bend Blvd., 2nd Floor

Cost: Free and open to the public

More Info: Call 314-246-7673

From Michael Hintlian:

"All the photographs in the No Transfer gallery were made from the window of a bus or train. Starting out of a frustration with working on the street in Boston, a very difficult place for a street photographer, it grew into an absorbing project. Working from a moving bus or train offered new challenges, how quickly I needed to work, the right seat, dirty and tinted windows. Almost immediately something different began to happen - I was responding to the first impulse before my mind started to run the process. This environment offers no second chances or time to consider anything, only perception followed by a response with a camera. Photographer Henry Wessel said of this quality: "(being) outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts."

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