2018 July : EXIT

SKYSCRAPER

Posted on 2018-07-09

Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building…above the fire line.

Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Central Intelligence, We’re the Millers), the 3D action-thriller is produced by Beau Flynn (San Andreas, Baywatch), Johnson, Thurber and Hiram Garcia (San Andreas, Central Intelligence).

In theatres July 13th, 2018

www.skyscrapermovie.com

MARTHA DIAMOND

Posted on 2018-07-09

A lifelong New Yorker, Martha Diamond has spent decades breathing in, recording, and understanding the spaces, light, and memory of the city. Those experiences are her guide. Diamond grew up first in an apartment on the 11th floor of a building in Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan. She remembers looking out a window and seeing, across a circular courtyard, only the geometry of other buildings; later, her family lived in Queens. Her father, a doctor, would take her with him in his car on his Saturday rounds to patients, and Diamond remembers the sense of cavernous space she felt down the avenues and streets of the island. Another memory: Her grandparents lived in Silver Lake, Staten Island in a fourth floor apartment with a brick balcony. Martha would walk out on the balcony: First came the reservoir, then a long road, then the Goethals Bridge to New Jersey. One shape, then a space, then another, and then more shapes.
One thing, and then another. Then another.

Opposite – Grisaille Cityscape No. 2, 2007

Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2018

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
39 Great Jones Street
NY 10012 New York
USA

www.presenhuber.com

DAN WEINER – VINTAGE NEW YORK, 1940-1959

Posted on 2018-07-09

The exhibition consists of vintage black and white prints made between 1940 and 1959. The exhibition focuses on Weiner’s New York work, highlighting the photographer’s roots in, love for, and inspired representations of his home city. Weiner’s portrayal of city life during a period of explosive growth and economic expansion is at once caring, inquisitive and critical, with a pronounced sociological bent. Also on view is the exhibition Sandra Weiner: New York Kids, 1940-1966. This is the first time that exhibitions of the husband and wife photographers have been on view concurrently.

Weiner is one of the original “concerned photographers.” In 1940 he joined the Photo League, a group of socially minded photographers including Paul Strand, W. Eugene Smith, Aaron Siskind and Dorothea Lange. Soon he was teaching an advanced class at the League. While taking part in Sid Grossman’s Documentary Class, out of which grew the “East Side Group,” Weiner photographed people and events around the Lower East Side. As his wife Sandra, whom he met during this period, later wrote, it was “an inspiring period for a young photographer.” Weiner firmly believed in the power of the camera to highlight social and economic problems and affect change.

Opposite – East 79th, New York City, 1950

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2018

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York
10011 NY

www.stevenkasher.com