THE WORLD AS SEEN BY HARRY BENSON

Posted on 2019-11-25

As one of the world’s most consequential photographers, Harry Benson’s renowned photographs managed to capture some of modern history’s most iconic moments. His pictures helped frame how we think and remember the world. The World as Seen by Harry Benson, showcases a comprehensive, broad and versatile range of images from his 60 plus year career.

Harry Benson’s story starts in Glasgow, Scotland. From an early age, his experience of listening to Winston Churchill on the radio, while his family hid from the nightly air raids happening during WWII, gave him a profound desire to “get to the center of things and see for myself.” As a young man, he attended art school and later went to work as a photojournalist in the world of Fleet Street printing and publishing, London’s highly competitive newspaper industry. Working for The London Daily News was like a “boot camp” for the young photographer, leading him to a journey that took Benson to document some of the most recognizable pictures of the past 60 years.

Opposite – The Who, photograph executed in 1980, printed 2010

Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2020

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
33480 FL

www.holdenluntz.com

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MICHAEL WOLF – METROPOLIS

Posted on 2019-11-18

Over his 40+ year career, Wolf intimately explored architecture and urban life from Paris to Hong Kong. He examined not only building facades as art objects themselves, but also the lives within these buildings. Bodies of work such as Architecture of Density, Transparent City, Tokyo Compression, and Paris Rooftops are all explorations of the realities of 21st century metropolitan life and the constant etching away of privacy.

For Wolf, photographing was also an act of preservation. Making images was a way to remember, not only physical structures, but also the fragile social constructs that bind humans together. Structures built in the closest of proximities do not necessarily translate into close neighbors, and Wolf’s work poetically captured the tensions within these physical and mental boundaries. Shot with a large-format camera, Wolf exposed private moments among the multiplexes, and reminds us that isolation can be a hallmark of city living.

Opposite – Architecture of Density #101, 2005

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2019

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York
10011 NY

www.brucesilverstein.com

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WILL WILSON

Posted on 2019-11-18

Photographer Will Wilson created the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) as a way to link history, form, and a critical dialogue about Native American representation. These “tintypes” and their enigmatic, time-traveling aspect demonstrate how an understanding of our world can be acquired through fabricated methods.

Opposite – Minnesota, 2011-18

Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2019

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown
13326 NY

www.fenimoreartmuseum.org

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DUANE MICHALS – ILLUSIONS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Posted on 2019-11-18

Contemplative, confessional, and comedic, the art of Duane Michals exerts an appeal that transcends the conventional audience of photography. Since the early 1960s, Michals has worked past what he sees as the limitations of the camera: he writes in the margins of his prints, creates sequences of images that explore intangible human dilemmas (doubt, mortality, desire), and derives poetic effects from technical errors such as double exposure and motion blur. Illusions of the Photographer combines a full career retrospective-the first on Michals to be organized by a New York City museum-with an artist’s-choice show, as Michals plumbs the Morgan’s vaults for treasures both revered and long-forgotten.

Michals leads viewers on a tour of his mind as he engages heroes and mentors as varied as William Blake, Edward Lear, and Saul Steinberg and matches wits with stage designers, toy-makers, and his fellow portraitists of the past and the present.

Opposite – The Illuminated Man, 1968

Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2020

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York
10016 NY

www.themorgan.org

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JESSICA LANGE – HIGHWAY 61

Posted on 2019-11-11

“These photographs are a chronicle of what remains and what has disappeared. It has a long memory, Highway 61.” — Jessica Lange

The exhibition, Highway 61, presents a tribute to the storied route which Lange has traveled countless times since her childhood in Northern Minnesota. Highway 61 originates at the Canadian border, near Grand Portage and runs 1,600 miles along the Mississippi River though the American Midwest and South, rolling through eight states, down to New Orleans.
Over the last seven years, Lange has revisited Highway 61 many times to photograph the historic route. Her photography series reveals the thoughtful and powerful connection Lange continues to maintain towards the people and places in this part of America. Lange has noted that “long stretches of 61 are empty, forlorn, as if in mourning for what has gone missing — the hometowns, the neighborhoods, family farms, factories and mills.”

Opposite – Minnesota, 2011-18

Exhibition runs through to January 18th, 2020

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
Suite 1406
NY 10022 New York

www.howardgreenberg.com

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