Ken Schles Invisible City/Night Walk

In the context of the exhibition KEN SCHLES | JEFFREY SILVERTHORNE | MIRON ZOWNIR, nearly 100 photographs by Ken Schles are on view at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. The exhibition with Ken Schles centers around two series of works, Invisible City and Night Walk, which the American photographer created in the late 1980s in New York. To this day, Invisible City (1988) remains a cult account of urban life. The work documents life on the Lower East Side over the course of ten years. It is an enthralling portrayal of a world to which only few have access. Along with Brassaï’s Paris de Nuit and van der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank, Invisible City is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth-century studies of bohemian nightlife. Twenty-five years after his pioneering book first appeared, in the series Night Walk Ken Schles tells of his lost youth.