Heart of Glass

L.B. Jeffries, the invalid voyeur played by Jimmy Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, would have been in his glory at the Gana Art Gallery last night. At a V.I.P. reception, photographer In Sook Kim unveiled her "Saturday Night," a startling image taken of the flank of a Dusseldorf hotel. At first glimspe, the technicolor vignette appears to be nothing more than a distant glimpse of the occupants of various brightly lit rooms. Upon closer inspection, however, a series of sexy shenanigans unfolds, the likes of which would make a casual passerby blush, but also wish for a pair of binoculars. The astonishingly intimate photo took two years to produce, as Kim first shot the building and then painstakingly lit and staged the scenes in each room, capturing the windows one at a time and then assembling the blocks like puzzle pieces. For a tamer view of Kim's work, see her story in today's New York Times magazine, "New Glass City."

And for more photos of last night's reception (including a second image, featuring a nude model up for auction), click here.