CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/1/2018

Time stops in Holiday Gift Staff Pick 'Evelyn Hofer: New York'

"When you step into a photograph you step into the past, into a history that becomes, as you step into the frame, the present," John Haskell writes in Steidl's beautiful Evelyn Hofer monograph—a Staff Favorite Holiday Gift Books for 2018. "Stopping the world requires quieting the heart, and in principle, it's very simple. If you stand on a corner in the middle of the big city, watching the pedestrians cross the street, the cars honking, the machinery pounding, waiting as patiently as possible, you might, in the middle of your watching and waiting, see inside the moment in front of you as the moment breaks apart and divides, like a cell divides, and if you can slide in between those two dividing moments, for an instant, it seems that time, in that instant stops." Featured image is "Three boys at the front door" (1975).