FINK/WINOGRAND

Posted on 2018-02-26

Larry Fink and Garry Winogrand were both actively taking photographs in New York City in the 1970s. Winogrand primarily made photographs during the day of people on the city streets exemplified in the exhibition in a selection of work from his Women are Beautiful series that was made into a book. Larry Fink’s series Social Graces, also resulting in a book, consists of photographs depicting wealthy Manhattanites in the evenings at museum openings, balls, galas, and other such social events. In an effort to acknowledge the fact of social class in the United States, Fink juxtaposes the photographs of socialites with images of his working-class neighbors, the Sabatines, at their family gatherings and events in rural Pennsylvania. While their subject matter was different, their working style and resulting photographs are similar in that they employed what was called “the snapshot aesthetic.”

Opposite – Garry Winogrand (American, 1928 – 1984) – Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum, New York 1969, from Women are Beautiful, c. 1970

Exhibition runs through to March 25th, 2018

Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines
50312 IA

www.desmoinesartcenter.org

  

NICHOLAS NIXON – PERSISTENCE OF VISION

Posted on 2018-02-19

Based in Boston since the 1970s, Nicholas Nixon has captured the intimate details of family, relationships, and life as it unfolds in front of his camera. Using a large-format 8 x 10–inch camera and black-and-white film, he has photographed Boston’s changing landscape, porch life in the rural South, sick or dying people, and his own family. This exhibition surveys the artist’s prolific career and is organized around Nixon’s remarkable ongoing project The Brown Sisters, a series of group portraits of his wife Bebe and her three sisters, Heather, Mimi, and Laurie taken annually since 1975. The Brown Sisters will be presented in its entirety, and each portrait will be paired with other photographs made by Nixon in the same year, drawn from various bodies of work, including schools in and around Boston, people with AIDS, couples, and landscapes. Together these pictures underscore photography’s singular ability to capture the passage of time in incremental moments and are a testament to Nixon’s extraordinary persistence of vision.

Opposite – The Brown Sisters, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1975

Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2018

The Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Avenue
Boston
02210 MA

www.icaboston.org

  

TABITHA SOREN – FANTASY LIFE

Posted on 2018-02-19

In 2002, Tabitha Soren started photographing the new draft picks for the Oakland A’s. In addition to many of those draftees, she followed players from major and minor leagues throughout their careers, photographing their lives in the game as well as personal milestones. Presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries Art at City Hall program, Fantasy Life features an exhibition of 180 photographs on the ground floor, and nine large-scale banners in the North Light Court featuring tintype images of the SF Giants in action. Soren’s photographs are accompanied by documents ranging from team assignments to first-person narratives from the SF Giants and team members across the country.

Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2018

San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
94102 CA

www.sfartscommission.org

  

MARK MORRISROE – BOY NEXT DOOR

Posted on 2018-02-19

Mark Morrisroe was born in Malden, Massachusetts, north of Boston, and grew up in the area before attending the prestigious School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he first met such artists as Doug and Mike Starn and Gail Thacker, and was inspired by older photographers such as Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. It was there that Morrisroe befriended fellow student Pat Hearn, and the two spent a summer together in Provincetown in 1980. By early 1983 Hearn moved to New York City where she established her eponymous gallery in the East Village and began selling Morrisroe’s work. ClampArt’s exhibition is comprised primarily of photographs acquired directly from Hearn before her untimely death at age forty-five in 2000. Hearn was well-known and widely respected for her strong relationships with and championing of young artists, and she carefully advised her clients on specifically which artworks to collect. Hearn and Morrisroe were close until his own untimely death at the age of thirty in 1989; and after that, Hearn served as the executrix of the artist’s estate and went on to mount a series of memorial shows in 1994, 1996, and 1999. Hearn appears in many of Morrisroe’s best-known photographs (a couple of which are included in the current exhibition).

Opposite – Untitled (Wally)

Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2018

ClampArt
521 – 531 West 25th Street
New York
10001 NY

clampart.com

  

BORIS IGNATOVICH

Posted on 2018-02-12

This is the first ever solo exhibition held in New York for Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976), a towering figure in Russian Constructivist photography. The exhibition features some of the artist’s most celebrated photographs from the 1920s and 1930s, including large-scale gelatin silver prints of unprecedented size (29 x 39 inches) made by Ignatovich himself for the 1969 exhibition at the Moscow Central House of Journalists in honor of his seventieth birthday.

Opposite – At the Hermitage, 1930

Exhibition runs through to March 17th, 2018

Nailya Alexander Gallery
41 E 57th Street
Suite 704
New York
NY 10022

www.nailyaalexandergallery.com

  

MARKUS BRUNETTI – FACADES – GRAND TOUR

Posted on 2018-02-12

Markus Brunetti’s FACADES is a project dedicated to recording and conveying the artistic complexity of European architecture by capturing the façades of historic cathedrals, churches and cloisters in minute detail. In the tradition of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s serial documentation of German industrialization, the front surface of each structure is photographed in a precise and regulated style allowing for typologies and comparisons. The subjects are conceived as idealized designs, or as what might be called photographic drawings on paper, similar to the architects’ or builders’ original plans and the engravings of Old Masters.

Brunetti’s FACADES are the result of continuous travel and work with his partner, Betty Schoener, in their self-contained computer lab on wheels. Initially focused on sites in Western Europe, their Grand Tour has now broadened to include varied religious histories and denominations in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. New additions to the series include composites of the Baroque Marian Sanctuary in Święta Lipka, Northern Poland; wooden Stave churches of Norway; the towering St. Lorenz gothic church in Nuremberg, Germany; as well as the ornate façades of churches, basilicas and synagogues in Lithuania, Italy, Portugal, England and France.

Opposite – Lichfield, Cathedral, 2014–2017

Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2018

Yossi Milo Gallery
245 10th Avenue
New York
10001 NY

www.yossimilo.com