Out My Window

Out My Window collects Gail Albert Halaban’s large color photographs of people at home in their apartments, seen through windows across streets, alleyways and airshafts.

PowerHouse Books published it in 2012 as a 92-page hardcover with an introduction by Vernon Silver. The publisher’s copy describes a couple with their baby, a family preparing dinner and a woman painting her apartment, and compares the book to Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Vince Aletti of The New Yorker, quoted on the PowerHouse page, notes that Halaban staged these moments and says they still register the pull between wanting to connect and needing to be left alone.

Halaban has a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art. PowerHouse notes her large-scale photographs of women in the exhibitions About Thirty and This Stage of Motherhood. Her website carries Out My Window sections for New York, Istanbul, Italy and Buenos Aires, and invites anyone who wants to take part to ask a neighbor’s permission and email a snapshot of the view from one window to the other.