LEO RUBINFIEN
2013-11-11In these photographs, made in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines not long after the Americans departed from Saigon, there is no more violence, but the lush and gorgeous landscape of Southeast Asia seems to brood with the silence that remained where the war had been. Beyond the War is presented in conjunction with our exhibition Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History from the Associated Press.
A Map of the East is one of the most esteemed photographic books of the 1990s. It appeared in 1992 together with one-man exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo. Rubinfien spent much of the 1980s exploring the lesser known streets and back roads of Japan (where he had grown up), China and Southeast Asia, and producing a body of work admired for its lyricism, intimacy, humanity and vivid detail. The New York Times praised “these elegant, lonely pictures,” and the New York Review of Books called them “superb.”
Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2013
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York
NY
10011
