VALERIE BELIN – REFLECTION
2020-02-17Valérie Belin has worked on superimposing various previously unpublished photographs of shop windows and storefronts in Manhattan and other cities in New York state. She thus revisits a recurring theme in her work since the 1990s. The exceptional photographic collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum has been a resource for the artist, whether it be photographs created by the Worsinger Window Service (or Worsinger Photo), a New York firm that specialized in documenting shop windows and interiors, or Robert Brownjohn’s Street Level series focused on photographs of signs and typographies. The artist also refers to the work of Eugène Atget and of Walker Evans, the photographer par excellence of vernacular American culture, or even the photographs of Lee Friedlander.
Opposite – Fresh Cuts, Atlanta (Reflection), 2019
Exhibition runs through to April 4th, 2020
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri
75004 Paris
France
