Starting at 8:00 am on August 5, 1997, Dennis Adams and Laurent Malone walked non-stop, from the intersection of Center and Kenmare Streets in Manhattan, across the Williamsburg bridge to JFK airport. The walk took 11 hours and 35 minutes. They followed the straightest possible line towards their destination, traversing backyards, highways and cemeteries. The walk was documented by a predetermined agreement for producing paired photographs: one 35 mm camera was shared with the understanding that either party could choose to take a photograph of their own choosing at any time during the walk. In direct response to each other’s selected shot, the camera was handed to the second party, who then took another photograph from exactly the opposite direction. In the case of the second photograph, no attention was given to subject selection, framing or adjustments in aperture of focus. From the beginning to the end of their walk, a total of 486 photographs were taken. The book inside this cover is an unedited photographic record of this event. The left-hand pages represent the “selected shots” and the left-hand pages represent the corresponding “blind” shots.






