Because she "prowls her city at the other end of the day, picking up parts of the past in the present, just before it is buried by shadows," according to Arthur Danto, Lynn Saville is New York's equivalent to Eugène Atget. Saville concentrated on empty areas for her latest book, Dark City, including shuttered businesses, dark alleys, bare billboards, and empty lots, with the occasional ghostly figure rushing through the frame. Saville used a medium-format camera to take pictures at dusk and dawn of major city streets that had been deserted and empty, as well as of empty stores and industrial places. She rapidly set up her tripod to avoid drawing the notice of the authorities.
 
The sky, streetlights, neon signs, and security lighting are all sources of color and light. Although the photos in Dark City have an otherworldly appearance, they also tell a more realistic tale of how the urban landscape is changing—vacancies brought on by the financial crisis and construction projects sparked by economic recovery, gentrification, and development.
Photographs from locations across the US, including New York City, Columbus, Ohio, Portland, Maine, and Lowell, Massachusetts, as well as an introduction by renowned author Geoff Dyer, are included in the book Dark City. 
As "the boundary hours between night and day," as Lynn Saville refers to them, twilight and dawn are her favorite times to snap pictures. Saville attended Duke University and the Pratt Institute, and Yancey Richardson is his New York-based agent.