image of John Lennon by Bob Gruen, on view at Bonnie Benrubi
As you may well know, I get many of my topics from NYTimes, so of course today I have to tell everyone about another summer must-see. This summer on exhibition throughout 13 galleries in Chelsea, are photographs of New York. From Nan Goldin to Helen Levitt, one can view almost every perspective of the city through the last century.
This is sure to take up a day or two when visiting the city, so plan ahead to hit all of the venues. This loosely titled exhibit, called New York Photographs, is organized by galleries that specifically represent photography, so even if the New York Photographs show is over, this is an excellent gallery list to start with if you want a down and dirty education on the broad representation of photography in New York City. For instance, Yancey Richardson is a highly respected contemporary gallery with some of the hottest photographers on the scene, while something like Howard Greenburg Gallery seems to show more conservative black and white work. Overall, the beauty about photography and this city, is that both have come of age together; as photography was developed during the same period as the birth of the steam engine and the iron industry, so the city literally grew up around the photograph. I think that's what will be beautiful about these exhibits, viewing the increasingly complex relationship the photographic medium, which has recorded and re-presented the life of the city time and time again, has with New York. Reviewing in these galleries, how both the visual structures and the concrete structures have altered in context over the last century. I am certainly going to try to make it to see many of these galleries before the end of the month.
I have made a list of the participating galleries below, some have references to the New York Photographs show, while some mention nothing of it. Alas *shrug* I never fail to be disappointed in at least a few NY gallery websites.
Bonni Benrubi, thru Sept. 5
Danziger Project
Yossi Milo, thru Aug. 28
Deborah Bell, by appt. thru August
Edwynn Houk
Howard Greenberg
Hasted Hunt, thru Aug. 28
Janet Borden, worst website yet...*sigh*
Laurence Miller0, Helen Levitt thru Aug. 2
Pace/MacGill
Robert Mann
Julie Saul, thru Sept. 12
Yancey Richardson
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