A rectangular book open to a spread with a color image of a New York street and shorter yellow pages that read "I like people watching because I like watching people."

NAME, DESCRIPTION

A rectangular book open to a spread with a color image of a New York street and shorter yellow pages that read "I like people watching because I like watching people."

Major

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Faculty

Jayme Yen

Team

Edith Freeman

An aeriel view of an open book with blank pages other than the title "Witness."

An aerial view of two copies of the same book open to different pages. The pages feature an image of a woman with her two children on the New York subway. The second book has a black page with a cutout obscuring the image of the subway car except for a rectangular window showing the girls' two dolls..

An aerial view of a book open to a spread featuring a color image of a New York street. In the foreground of the image is a broken crosswalk sign. The “DONT WALK” warning is hanging upside down as pedestrians cross the street.

An aerial view of two copies of the same book open to different pages. The first page spread has an image of a couple kissing passionately. The paper is cut at the base of the page to show a caption “Oh to be young and in love.” Opposite the image is the caption “I wonder if she’s sure.” The second book is opened to the spread directly after that of the first book, showing the same captions but with an image of a couple on their wedding day. This time the cutout in the paper reveals “I wonder if she’s sure.”

Book as window

Witness is a collection of photographs taken in New York City in the 1970s and 80s by eight photographers. Some images are accompanied by anonymous captions—instinctual assumptions—written by my friends and family. Through window-like page cutouts, Witness explores people-watching as an act of learning, assuming, and misinterpreting.

Book as window

Witness is a collection of photographs taken in New York City in the 1970s and 80s by eight photographers. Some images are accompanied by anonymous captions—instinctual assumptions—written by my friends and family. Through window-like page cutouts, Witness explores people-watching as an act of learning, assuming, and misinterpreting.

Book as window

Witness is a collection of photographs taken in New York City in the 1970s and 80s by eight photographers. Some images are accompanied by anonymous captions—instinctual assumptions—written by my friends and family. Through window-like page cutouts, Witness explores people-watching as an act of learning, assuming, and misinterpreting.