Christopher Moloney

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Christopher Moloney is a Canadian writer and photographer. He is best known for his ongoing rephotography project entitled FILMography.

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Biography

Moloney was born in the Toronto suburb of York, Ontario, Canada. He attended St. Anthony Elementary School and North Park Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. He studied radio and television arts at Ryerson University in Toronto. [1] [ better source needed ]

Career

After earning his degree, Moloney moved to New York City to work in television, most notably the Late Show with David Letterman and Erin Burnett OutFront .

In June 2012, [2] he began experimenting with an on-location layering technique of holding up a black-and-white printout of a scene from a movie and taking another photograph.

The critics are divided on his work. Flare praised Moloney for "flawlessly [lining] up every brick in a building and curb on the street to make the visuals look as one" [3] while The Atlantic was more critical, noting "the buildings don’t always line up perfectly; the colors seldom match" [2]

His photographs have been featured by a number of magazines including Esquire, [4] Complex, [5] Wired, [6] Fast Company [7] and Vanity Fair [8]

In 2013, his photographs were part of exhibitions during the Cannes Film Festival [9] and Ischia Film Festival. [10]

In December 2011, Moloney was interviewed by The New York Times for an article called "Dark Days Behind It, Central Park Pulses at Night". During the interview, Moloney referred to Central Park as "boringly safe". [11] The phrase caught on and, when the article was reprinted by other media outlets, it was included in the headline. [12] [13] Shortly after the article ran in The New York Times, New York magazine criticized Moloney's comments in a column called "Central Park Not Nearly As Rape-y at Night As It Used to Be". [14]

Notable photographs

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References

  1. ↑ Christopher Moloney at IMDb
  2. 1 2 Grabar, Henry. "Movie Scenes of the Past in Real Life New York", The Atlantic , January 4, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  3. ↑ Foley, Meghan. "NYC Photographer Christopher Moloney Recaptures Classics" Archived March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine , Flare , January 15, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ Mikin, Mark. "Something Cool We Saw Online: Augmented?", Esquire , October 4, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ Lasane, Andrew. "We Tumblforya: Film Locations Then and Now" Complex , May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ Schiller, Jakob. "Recreating Famous Movie Scenes With a Cheap Printer and Camera" Wired , September 27, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ Berkowitz, Joe. "See Your Favorite Movie Scenes And Their Actual Locations--All At Once!" Fast Company Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ Rovzar, Chris. "Iconic Film Stills Photographed in Their Real-Life Locations", Vanity Fair , November 28, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ La programmation | Belvedere [ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Programma IFF 2013". Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  11. ↑ Foderaro, Lisa W. (December 28, 2011). "As Crime Falls, Central Park's Night Use Grows". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ Lisa W. Foderaro (December 30, 2011). "Central Park at night: once shunned, now 'boringly safe'". The Bulletin.
  13. ↑ Doll, Jen (December 28, 2011). "Crime Down in New York City for 2011; Central Park After Dark Now Just 'Boringly Safe'". Runnin' Scared. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014.
  14. ↑ Dan Amira (December 29, 2011). "Central Park Not Nearly As Rape-y at Night As It Used to Be". Intelligencer. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  15. ↑ "FILMography Annie Hall".
  16. ↑ "FILMography The Avengers (2012)".
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