PETER BROWN – HOMETOWN TEXAS

Posted on 2018-04-30

When Texas was admitted to the Union, as journalist Joe Holley recounts, Congress authorized it to form “new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas.” PDNB Gallery artist, Peter Brown, and Joe Holley, a journalist known for his column, Native Texan, in the Houston Chronicle, recently collaborated on a book released last fall, Hometown Texas.
Texas is perfect subject matter for both photographer and journalist. The book explores the land and people of this vast state of Texas: East, West, North, South and Central. They illustrate through stories and pictures, the place that shapes a person that defines them as Texans.

Peter Brown has spent his career photographing the Great Plains that encompass Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Although he was born in the East, his home state has been Texas for thirty-five years. Brown’s success with his earlier book collaboration with author Kent Haruf, West of Last Chance, precipitated the idea to pair with Joe Holley’s writings of small town Texas. The writer and artist collaboration is not a novel idea, but innately offers unique viewpoints between the two disciplines.

Opposite – Central Texas: Christmastime, Edna, 2015

Exhibition runs through to May 12th, 2018

PDNB
154 Glass St
Ste. 104 Dallas
75207 TX

pdnbgallery.com

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ED VAN DER ELSKEN – “LOVE” & OTHER STORIES

Posted on 2018-04-30

With a confident, gritty, and unconventional style, van der Elsken’s confrontational portraits of young love, alienation, and counterculture bohemian life paved the way for late 20th century photographers such as Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Wolfgang Tillmans. He is best known for his iconic photography book, Love on the Left Bank, 1954, acclaimed for expanding the boundaries of documentary photography. His work was most recently seen last year in a retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which traveled to the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid.

Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was “a man who would have liked to have transplanted a camera into his head to permanently record the world around him” noted Beatrix Ruf, the director of the Stedelijk Museum and Marta Gili, the director of the Jeu de Paume wrote in his retrospective exhibition catalogue.

“He was always looking for what he called ‘my king of people,’” said Hripsime Visser, the curator of the exhibition at the Stedelijk. “And what he meant by that was not the beautiful people and not the famous people but the people who tried to live or to survive.”

Opposite – Cafe “Au Mabillon” Boulevard Saint Germain des Pres, Paris 1950

Exhibition runs through to May 5th, 2018

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
10022 NY

www.howardgreenberg.com

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