For those of you who did not get up to see the AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory in NY in April 2014, here are some of the things that were interesting. There were plenty of vintage prints on the walls, but this blog concentrates on contemporary work to show what is happening in today's art world.
Please excuse that there are reflections of other pieces in most of the glass in the frames. And understand that these were shot at a show so they are not at all straight. Also consider that in a real gallery space the work would probably not be as crammed together as it was here.
The first category is Kinetic Photographs. The champion of these kinds of pieces is the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in Chelsea.
This first piece is by Mariano Sardón and is made from dismantled video picture frames.
This is called Mountains Repetitions by Clive Holden, shown by Bulger Gallery, Toronto.
This is 5 out of a piece that includes 25 such images, shown i iPads (that are included with the purchase). These are lifted from old catalogs on health and body building. Yes, appropriation for what purpose?
The next 2 pieces are transparent film embeded inside blocks of glass by Michal Macku (Czech Republic) at Paci Gallery, Italy.
Ah, a small print from May Ray...
And another that should be smaller and unframed, by Masao Yamamoto.
A poster with an image by Edward Steichen.
The next group are 'constructed images' by various artists:
Gordon Matta-Clark at David Zwimmer, NY.
One of Robert Heineken's famous pieces extracted from Playboy magazine.
This is constructed from many shards of photos by Barret Oliver.
Some panorama format prints Yoshi Hiko from 1999, at Photo Gallery International, Tokyo.
These are exposures that lasted one full day and track the movement of the sun across the sky with a 360˚ lens, by Izima Kaoru at Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles. The dark areas around the periphery are the actual buildings surrounding the camera.
Here are two examples of long exposueres as all, these onto paper negatives so that the sun actually burned a hole into the paper, by Chris McCaw from the series Sunburned at Yossi Milo Gallery NY. Sort of pure process with no real content, but there still seems to be real 'feel'. (side view detail below)
This is a huge 'unique photogram' called Starlight Tragjectory by Kevin Cooley, shown by Kopeikin Gallery, LA.
This set of three paper negatives are made by dipping very old exhausted photo paper into developer and manipulating it so the chemistry runs to form visual patterns, by Alison Rossiter at Bulger Gallery, Toronto. These too are very process oriented, but the allusion to image is still there.
These are recent chromogenic photographs from ice made by Farrah Karapetian, shown by Von Lintel Gallery, LA.
This is a print by Aaron Siskind mounted on textured wood, shown at Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe. That's a minimal linear Harry Callahan print next to it.
A large print by Charles Schwartz from his collection of damaged 19th century prints entitled Light Reclaimed.
Four mixed media pieces by Rita Bernstein, made with ink and paint on photographic images (detail below). Shown by Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX.
One from Richard Misrach's American Desert series from 1975, where flash is overblown during exposures so long there are star trails in the sky. Shown by Robert Mann Gallery, NY.
And a large print from Myong Ho Lee made by placing a backdrop behind a tree, making a unique altered subject. Shown byYossi Milo Gallery, NY.
A wall of 7 pieces all three-dimensional 'unique photo-based constructions' made by Jennifer Williams, at Robert Mann, NY (detail below).
A contact sheet and four prints at different galleries by Francesca Woodman. Janet Sirmon Fine Art, NY and James Hyman, London.
An Andy Warhol portrait by Avedon.
And a Guy Bourdin print, from a guy who said he never wanted his work shown in a gallery. Leave it to the kids . . .
Two color shots inspired by Hopper, loaded with personal mystery and drama by Richard Tuschman, shown by Paul Cava, Phila.
Two prints of figures against drawings "that create a sense of time suspended, evoking gesture, atmosphere and memory", by Lauren Semivan, shown by Bonni Benrubi, NY.
There small prints by a Scandanian couple, Inka Lindergard and Niclas Holmstrom, that are 'land works' where structures are build by the artists to make photo prints. Shown by Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin.
One of several Josef Sudek prints from the 1950's, showing how sensitive his work is. Shown by Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna.
And three beautifully enigmatic prints by Adou at M97 Gallery in Shanghai, China.
This array of small Polaroid 669 prints is by Philip-Lorca diCorcia at David Zwimmer, NY, including one from his famous Flash on the Street series.
This array of photos of sides of buildings by Philip-Lorca diCorcia in 2008 can hint at the lives of the people who once lived in these buildings, at David Zwimmer, NY.
Another set of building walls by Charles Johnstone at Julie Saul, NY.
This is the beginning of a selection of shots that are straight-on shots of geometric west coast style buildings from the 1970's. These objective, passive shots are probably best left in the 70's. Louis Baltz took this a step further by getting closer so that the eye of the photographer becomes part of the photograph, becoming more personal.
And here are two arrays by Bernd and Hilla Becher, the gods of this style. The first time these were seen on the walls of Leo Castelli when his gallery was still down in Soho, it was obvious that these were not about the Towers, but rather, about a compulsive couple who went to all the trouble to trek all over Europe in search of structures of similar form. These seem more about the photographers than about the subject being photographed, which makes them more active and personal.
This set of small prints is by Robert Doisneau shot in the 1940's to 1960's (see the following detail). There were prints by him featured at 11 galleries.
This array of photos were shot by Nathan Lyons in the 1960's from his series Notations in Passing, shown at Bruce Silverstein, NY.
Another array of small prints that are vintage postcards that have recently been painted on with goache by Thomas Butler. Shown at Fifty One Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium. (detail below)
And now for the Big Print selections:
A set of C Prints by Sze Tsung Leong shot at the Dead Sea in 2007, shown by Yossi Milo, NY.
A set of three Cibachrome prints by Nicholas Prior, shown by Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta.
A large heliograph by Matthew Brandt made with tar from the La Brea Tar Pits in 2013, mounted on aluminum, shown by Yossi Milo, NY.
A couple of large pieces mounted to lucite, shown by Von Lintel Gallery, LA.
And a wall of color inhabited landscape pieces by Ellen Kooi, shown by PPOW Gallery, NY.
Another large print by Israeli artist Ilit Azoulay, who installs real objects onto photographed walls and reshoots that to create composites, shown by Andrea Meislin, NY.
A pair of large panels by Ysabel LeMay, shown at Verve Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
This is one of a series of Ilfochrome prints made in 2005 by Beatrice Helg in which the original scale and materials of the subject are not even know to the gallerist. They could be anything, at any scale. Shown by Joel Soroka Gallery, Basalt, CO.
A 30 x 40" long exposure shot at an aquarium by Matthew Pillsbury, shown by Bonni Benrubi, NY.
The 40 x 50" C print on the left is by Tamas Dezso, shown by Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco.
And a large color piece by Valérie Bélin, shown by Edwynn Houk, NY.
You can copy the artist and gallery name and past it into a Google search window and find out more about any of these works that you find interesting.
Please note that nowhere are there any prints pinned to the wall...
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