We spend a vast percentage of our lives sleeping, and most of us have no clue how we look or act in this altered state. Enter Ted Spagna[1] , a photographer devoted to documenting the sleeping habits and positions of others.
pgs 36-37: Ann ca.1980
From the 1970s until his death in 1989, Spagna snapped time-lapse photographs of others enjoying a healthy REM cycle. The dreamy series, simply titled "Sleep," is somewhere between a Eadweard Muybridge print and a sentimental snapshot you'd treasure for years.
Spagna captured the choreography of sleep for a variety of subjects including couples, children and cozy groups of friends, creating a chronological grid of their various movements. "I was surprised to see another self that existed in sleep that I didn’t know about,[2] " he told the New York Times.
A book of Spagna's hypnotic sleep cycles[3] will be available in September. In the meantime, would you like your nightly movements translated into art? Let us know in the comments.
pgs 64-67: Peter & Cat 1979
pgs 68/69: The Prokops ca.1977
pgs 34-35: Alexis 1981
pgs 70-71: Rob & Patty ca.1985
pgs 82-83: Chick ca.1980
Billy & Anita (detail) 1980
pgs 14-15: Seymour 1979
pgs 60-61: Vincent ca.1985
pgs 90-91: Wave of Sleep (details) ca. 1980
All images courtesy of George Eastman House and the Estate of Ted Spagna.
References
- ^ Ted Spagna (www.tedspagna.com)
- ^ I was surprised to see another self that existed in sleep that I didn’t know about, (tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com)
- ^ A book of Spagna's hypnotic sleep cycles (www.amazon.com)
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