“There are no powerful Robert Frank moments here, but...enough Parr insights into the American psyche to cause a few chuckles.“

“The vivid presentation of carefree dance halls, public baths, and clothing optional social settings in the late 1970s arouses unease in us, forcing us to bear the burden of knowing what happens next.”

“If photographers are competing with painters, painters, consciously or not, have been competing with advertising, something Andy Warhol very clearly understood.”

“... this is an invigorating show of (mostly) younger photographers, and is a welcome tonic for those who have grown weary of the Academic-Gallery-MoMAfication of the New York photo world. “

For six years, Paton prowled the streets and nightspots of major cities like New York, Paris, London and Chicago, and captured a series of portraits that often vividly illustrate the loneliness, solitude and mystery of the night as well some of the pleasures shared by its denizens.