Daily Picture Show  Envisioning A World Without People  1 of 10
View slideshow i  Times Square is a zoo and it always will be,
at all hours of the day — unless, maybe, it's the end times.
That's an eerie thing to imagine, but it's also exactly what the
photographer duo Lucie & Simon want you to imagine. They are
trying to create what they describe as "impossible places" in
their series Silent World: cities stripped of every car, every
person — except for maybe a single wanderer.  Surprisingly, it's
not all Photoshop. The self-taught, Paris-based artists emailed
me a statement explaining that each image starts with an hours-
long exposure: "This way all elements in movement (cars,
persons, etc.) disappear."  Then they go to work in Photoshop,
combining that long-exposure image with several other photos to
create the ultimate unsettling image of an empty Paris, for
example. The images were made in the United States, China,
France and Italy between 2009-2012. You can see more on their
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