Alien

16x20 inch Black & White print on Epson Art Cotton Smooth 250 gram paper. From the NYC Village Halloween Parade, 1982–86.

A towering Xenomorph from the Alien franchise leans precariously over the crowd at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade during the mid-1980s. In the background, the brick facade of 59 West Tenth Street is lined with onlookers peering down from fire escapes and balconies. Below, the faces of the spectators behind the wooden police barricades are a mix of genuine astonishment, laughter, and slight trepidation as the biomechanical puppet descends toward them. The high-contrast black-and-white tones of the Tri-X film, shot with an analog Pentax, capture the glistening, skeletal textures and ridged details of the creature's head. A powerful burst from a Norman 200B flash illuminates the scene, freezing the dynamic interaction between the monstrous creation and the mesmerized New York City crowd against the dark urban night.