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"Across the specific differences among Goicolea’s works

by the celebrated New Mexican poet Jimmy Santiago Baca

The book never transpired

a faint buzzing that can only be felt at certain times in that far-removed place

and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge

Passengers silas-finch "Across the specific differences among"John Schabels series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel. Like products on an assembly line, the planes carrying Schabels subjects churn down the runway; and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge, identically framed, from his camera and onto the gallery wall.