Passengers silas-finch Bachardy's drawings are in the

Bachardy's drawings are in the permanent collections of England's National Portrait Gallery and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge

Pompeii-like stillness

from the 1870s through the 1970s

Passengers silas-finch Bachardy's drawings are in the"John Schabels series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel. Like products on an assembly line, the planes carrying Schabels subjects churn down the runway; and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge, identically framed, from his camera and onto the gallery wall.