Gail Albert Halaban: Out My Window is on view at the George Eastman Museum. The exhibition includes artist Gail Albert Halaban’s photographs from the earliest to the most recent phases of her project, which until now has been seen only as discrete bodies of work from New York and Paris. This show features images made in cities all over the world, including Buenos Aires, Istanbul, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Utrecht, and Venice, and showcases what urban neighbors see when they look across the street. Although modern technology has made the world seem smaller, the ease of communicating with distant or unfamiliar individuals may make it too easy to ignore those physically closest to us. Albert Halaban’s photographic project, Out My Window, counters this tendency by using photography as a means of social engagement. The project began in 2007, two
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