Slide Show: Kevin Cooley’s Ethereal Aviation Images

In “Nachtfluge,” an ode to studies of motion by the nineteenth-century photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey, the Los Angeles-based photographer and video artist Kevin Cooley captures the takeoff and landings of commercial airplane flights. With exposure lengths ranging from ten minutes to four hours, the photographs each illustrate the time it takes for a flight to pass through the frame—each image a static investigation of the relationships between motion, distance, and time.

All photographs by Kevin Cooley/Kopeikin Gallery.