Babel Tales Redux is a grid of panoramic street shots that is both too much and too little. The work is crowded with humanity that is often on the cusp of forming some greater narrative or meaning but all too often the pictures dissolve into interesting-looking people who happen to be in the same place at the same time.
Spoiler Alert: If you don’t like to know the end of the movie before seeing, it stop reading now… still with me?
The pictures are digitally stitched together from frames taken at the same spot and then reassembled into a single moment, which is fine and in retrospect hard to miss even though at first glance I didn’t think twice about everyone wearing red or yawning at the same time. But once you know the pictures are photoshoped, it is hard not to want more from them. Surely Funch could have put together images that are more compelling and complex. At the end of the day, however, there are still some awfully good pictures here, like the turquoise police detention center, a car at dusk on Broadway south of Canal or a man standing among a cowd of balloons. Each picture does make one want to get back out into the streets and look for the magic that is street photography.
Through Oct. 8th
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