NAN GOLDIN – FIRE LEAP

Posted on 2011-06-20

Fireleap is a major new slideshow with images of children from 1972 until today, most of which have never been shown. Children fascinate Goldin because of their freedom. They follow no rules, living in a free zone before being socialized by society’s boundaries. Fireleap captures this consciousness while it is still untethered by awkwardness and social restraint.

Nan Goldin is known as an artist whose output is inextricably bound up with her own biography, and for breaking down the traditional barrier between the camera and what is being photographed. Her naturally lit images document her surrogate family of friends and lovers, and more often than not are frank confrontations with personal experience, and explorations of both intimacy and the alienation that can be wound up within it.

Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2011

Sprovieri Gallery
27 Heddon Street
London
W1B 4BJ

www.sprovieri.com

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ARNOLD CRANE

Posted on 2011-06-20

Over a period of more than two decades, Crane created a body of artistic work of immeasurable value and historic importance. Whether sitting in a car with Paul Strand, catching Imogen Cunningham in her kitchen or accompanying Ansel Adams on a Point Lobos shoot, Crane always managed to produce sensitive photographs that both revealed and revered his subjects.

Crane has worked as a photographer since his youth and documented incidents such as major crime scenes, earthquakes, fires and political events and was published in various U.S. magazines. After receiving his Doctor of Juris prudence, he temporarily stopped working as a photographer, but started again in 1983, inspired by a friendship with the photographer Man Ray. His monograph On the Other Side of the Camera, already out of print, offers a complete collection of all the artists’ portraits Crane has created over the years. The book won the renowned KODAK Photo Book Award in 1995, the year of its publication.

Opposite – Arnold Crane with mirrors

Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2010

Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.camerawork.de

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