DAVID VESTAL – ON THE QUIET STREETS OF NEW YORK
2021-01-25This array of photographs, depicting scenes of New York from the 1940s to the 1960s, illustrates Vestal’s ability to harness the juxtaposition of the intensity of the pounding city and the loneliness of the quiet streets. These black and white images, abound with atmospheric light and dramatic composition, draw the viewer into Vestal’s poetic film noir-inspired New York.
David Vestal was born in Menlo Park, California in 1924. On the Quiet Streets of New York is his fourth solo exhibition with Robert Mann Gallery. He made a great splash in the Photo League, where he was a member and befriended Sid Grossman, developing the distinguishing approach of favoring single images to photographic essays. Vestal was also a figure of the New York School, a radical and politically charged artistic movement following WWII that created a new form of documentary street photography.
Opposite – 133 W. 22nd St., New York, 1964
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2021
Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street, Floor 2
New York
NY 10001
