Exposition Sarah Moon @ Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York - "Sarah Moon: On the Edge"

Sarah Moon: On the Edge

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

17 février - 6 avril 2024

Quarante années de travail présentées à travers une sélection d'un peu plus de 30 photographies de la fin des années 1980 à 2022. C'est l'exercice auquel s'est livré Sarah Moon (née en 1941) pour l'exposition Sarah Moon : On the Edge à la Howard Greenberg Gallery à New York. La galerie présente ainsi des photographies allant des fameuses images de mode aux paysages de Coney Island et de Toscane.

"Tout au long, j'ai essayé d'éviter l'anecdote, en cherchant un écho entre ce que je vois et ce que je ressens, en essayant d'atteindre ce point visuel de non-retour, cette seconde qui ne peut plus se reproduire" souligne Sarah Moon. "Aujourd'hui, je me rends compte que le minimalisme signifie de plus en plus pour moi quoi que je photographie, en essayant d'aller à l'essentiel de ce que je vois, en recadrant le sujet hors de son contexte, en le réduisant à cette seconde, à cette limite de temps, en saisissant la lumière. avant qu'il ne disparaisse. Les photos que je présente ici sont à la limite de cette tentative".

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Saul Leiter @ Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC + Book In My Room, published by Steidl

Saul Leiter: In My Room

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

May 10 - June 30, 2018

Saul Leiter’s intimate photographs of his muses over three decades is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Deeply personal and contemplative, many of the images in Saul Leiter: In My Room share tender moments underscored by the subjects’ trust in the photographer. 

SAUL LEITER

In My Room, Steidl, 2018

The exhibition, which includes work from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, is the subject of a book, also titled In My Room, published by Steidl. 

Many of the 35 photographs in the exhibition are on public view for the first time. 

Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s archive, the exhibition reveals the world of the artist and the women in his life through his studies of the female figure. Often illuminated by the lush natural light of Saul Leiter’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images uncover the mutual and empathetic collaboration between the artist and his subjects.

In the 1970s, Saul Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes, but never realized the project in his lifetime. The exhibition and upcoming book offer a first-time look at this body of work, which Leiter began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and continued throughout the next two decades. Leiter, who was also a painter, incorporates abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard, and Matisse.

The prolific Saul Leiter, who painted and took pictures fervently up to his death, worked in relative obscurity well into his eighties. Saul Leiter preferred solitude in life, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. With In My Room, he ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery.

Saul Leiter made an enormous and unique contribution to photography with a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1940s and ’50s. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries.

SAUL LEITER (1923-2013) was born in Pittsburgh, the son of a rabbi who was a distinguished Talmudic scholar. In 1946, he moved to New York City to pursue his painting. Shortly after his arrival in New York he met the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with photography. Leiter’s friendship with Pousette-Dart, and soon after with W. Eugene Smith, and the photography exhibitions he saw in New York, particularly Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947, inspired his growing interest in photography.

Edward Steichen included Saul Leiter’s black-and-white photographs in the exhibition Always the Young Strangers at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953. In the late 1950s the art director Henry Wolf published Saul Leiter’s color fashion work in Esquire and later in Harper’s Bazaar. Saul Leiter continued to work as a fashion photographer for the next 20 years and was published in Show, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, and Nova.

In the early 1980s Saul Leiter was faced with financial difficulties that forced the closure of his Fifth Avenue commercial studio. For the next two decades he lived and worked almost in obscurity. In 2006, with the help of writer/curator Martin Harrison and Howard Greenberg Gallery, the groundbreaking monograph Saul Leiter: Early Color was published by Steidl in Germany. The “little” book became an overnight sensation with worldwide distribution and firmly established Leiter as an early pioneer in the history of color photography. In 2006, the Milwaukee Museum of Art held the first US museum show of Saul Leiter’s photographs.

Saul Leiter’s work has been prominently featured in solo museum and gallery shows in the U.S. and Europe. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the National Gallery of Australia; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.

About the Saul Leiter Foundation

The Saul Leiter Foundation, founded in 2014, is dedicated to preserving the art and legacy of the American photographer and painter Saul Leiter, and to the appreciation, advancement, and conservation of photographic works worldwide. The foundation maintains an archive of Saul Leiter’s artwork and operates activities to promote the medium of photography through educational programs, exhibitions, books, and licensing. The SLF is working toward completing a catalogue raisonné to be made available for study by students, curators, writers, and art professionals. For more information, visit saulleiterfoundation.org. 

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Steve Kahn @ Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York - The Hollywood Suites

Steve Kahn: The Hollywood Suites
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 
February 1 - March 17, 2018

STEVE KAHN

The Hollywood Suites Triptych #4, 1976

© Steve Kahn - Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery

Howard Greenberg Gallery Dedicates this Exhibition to Steve Kahn who sadly passed away on February 1, 2018. 

Juxtaposing nudes and seascapes with architectural interiors, The Hollywood Suites, STEVE KAHN’s enigmatic series of photographs made between 1974 and 1978, is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. The series will be the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco opening on September 29, 2018. Steve Kahn is part of a generation of photographers that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, including Robert Heinecken and Lewis Baltz, who deconstructed the medium with a conceptual and abstract approach. 

The Hollywood Suites has been seen in solo exhibitions on the West Coast and in Europe and included in group exhibitions such as The Altered Photograph at P.S. 1 in New York in 1979. The exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery represents the first time the series is on view in a solo show in New York, and is the artist’s first exhibition with the Gallery. A book on the series was published by Nazraeli Press in 2014.

Steve Kahn created this body of work in rent-by-the-day rooms of an old tenement building in a run-down section of Hollywood, California. Looking to create work that spoke to containment and isolation, Steve Kahn began photographing professional bondage models using a Polaroid camera. Later, in his studio, he would copy the Polaroids with 35 mm film, documenting the events he had orchestrated, and initiating a formal process of reproductions and generations. As  SteveKahn notes, “These were situations entered into without a plan, full of anxiety, in the hope of producing some document of the experience that was explicit, visually powerful, yet went beyond what it was.”

STEVE KAHN

The Hollywood Suites (Nudes) #06, 1974-75

© Steve Kahn - Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery

STEVE KAHN

The Hollywood Suites (Bound Doors) #5, 1976

© Steve Kahn - Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery

One day, the model didn’t show up, and Steve Kahn found that he could explore the same provocative and haunting issues by photographing the room itself. This led to stark images of the walls, windows, mirrors, doors and hallways, which evolved into studies of defined space that became abstract in triptychs and quadrants. Except for certain interventions – adding graphic elements to a few doors with tape, rope, and black yarn – rarely did he manipulate the rooms.

As Steve Kahn wrote, “All of this work was process oriented, having started off as pull-and-peel Polaroids. The work was concerned with formal issues including generations, re-iterations, sequences, and multiple image presentations.” Ultimately Kahn notes, “I took the space apart and reconstructed it. I ended up creating an existential situation for myself.”

STEVE KAHN

Steve Kahn was born in Los Angeles in 1943 and took up photography at an early age, shooting assignments for a local newspaper while still in grade school. In 1968, he took to the streets as a young photojournalist working as a stringer for Time and Newsweek. In 1973, Stasis, a monograph of 22 images, was self-published, marking his departure from traditional photographic concerns. This body of work and other projects that followed reflected his interest in drawing, architecture, and abstraction.

In 1986, Steve Kahn moved to New York to pursue a career as a commercial photographer. During the next 25 years he produced several bodies of personal work including Chemical Plants, 1989, a photo essay shot in petrochemical facilities; Subway Portraits, 2002-03, a response to 9/11; and Brooklyn Shadows, 2006-08, images of barren trees projected onto the raw, urban canvas of concrete and asphalt. Steve Kahn’s books published by Nazraeli Press include The Hollywood Suites 1974-1976 in 2014 and Corridors in 2015. Chemical Plants will to be published in 2019.

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Steve Schapiro @ Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Steve Schapiro: Heroic Times
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Through January 27, 2018

STEVE SCHAPIRO, Nico in Times Square, 1972

© Steve Schapiro, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

An exhibition of the photography of Steve Schapiro is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Heroic Times marks the inaugural exhibition of Steve Schapiro’s work at the Gallery. Steve Schapiro has witnessed key moments of American history and culture, from the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march to Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign to Andy Warhol’s Factory to the filming of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. 

Steve Schapiro: Heroic Times surveying American milestones from the photographer’s nearly six decade career, with a focus on the 1960s and ‘70s. A number of the photographs are unpublished and on public view for the first time. With assignments from Life, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and many other publications, he captured iconic and humanistic images of politicians, celebrities, artists, and newsmakers in action.

“I am always seeking the image that conveys the spirit of the person,” Steve Schapiro noted. “At the same time, as a photojournalist, I want to create an image so that people will understand what news is being made.”

During Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, Steve Schapiro traveled with and got to know the young U.S. senator from New York, who greatly impressed him. Also during that time, Steve Schapiro documented the civil rights movement, making photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others who fought for social justice.

Steve Schapiro’s subjects extended beyond politics into the worlds of film, rock and roll, and art. He documented The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Way We Were, Midnight Cowboy, and Chinatown. Among the luminaries were David Bowie, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Barbra Streisand, and Nico, who sang with the Velvet Underground. 

STEVE SCHAPIRO

Steve Schapiro was born in New York City in 1934. His formal education in photography began when he studied with W. Eugene Smith in the early 1960s. In 1961, Steve Schapiro began to work as a freelance photojournalist, his photographs appearing in magazines including Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, and People.

Steve Schapiro’s photographs have been widely reproduced in magazines and books related to American cultural history from the 1960s, civil rights, and motion pictures. Monographs of Schapiro’s work include Schapiro’s Heroes, 2007, which offers intimate profiles of ten iconic figures. Recently, Powerhouse published Bliss, 2015, about the changing hippie generation; Bowie, 2016; and Misericordia, 2016, about a facility for people with disabilities. This year,  Taschen published The Fire Next Time with text by James Baldwin and Schapiro’s civil rights photographs from 1963 to 1968. Powerhouse will publish Muhammad Ali in spring, 2018.

Museums and galleries have exhibited Steve Schapiro’s photographs worldwide. The High Museum of Art’s Road to Freedom, which traveled widely in the United States, includes numerous photographs from the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. by Schapiro. Recent solo shows have been mounted in Los Angeles, London, Santa Fe, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin. He has had large museum retrospective exhibitions in the United States, Spain, Russia, and Germany.

Steve Schapiro’s work is represented in many private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. In September, he received the James Joyce Award from University College in Dublin. In October he won a Lucie award for achievement in photojournalism. He lives and works in Chicago. 

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The Immigrants @ Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York - A Group Exhibition of Works by Select Photographers

The Immigrants
A Group Exhibition of Works by Select Photographers
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Through January 27, 2018

Bob Gruen, John Lennon, New York, 1974

© Bob Gruen, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

Issues relating to immigration have been front and center in the news, from the recent travel ban to the border wall to the uncertainty of the Dreamers. Howard Greenberg Gallery focuses on the immigrant experience – from hardship and sacrifice to pride and achievement. The Immigrants surveying the work of more than 40 photographers from the 1860s through 2015, exploring issues of labor, education, and poverty as well as discrimination, assimilation, and a sense of belonging. A portion of proceeds from the exhibition will benefit the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which supports refugee families in crisis.

More than 70 images exploring these important topics are on view by Ansel Adams, Boushra Almutawakel, Margaret Bourke-White, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edward Burtynsky, Robert Capa, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Ernst Haas, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Alex Majoli, Ruth Orkin, Bill Owens, Gordon Parks, Dulce Pinzón, Augustus Frederick Sherman, W. Eugene Smith, Alfred Stieglitz, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Alex Webb, among others.

Tracing the immigrant’s journey, photographs in the exhibition lead viewers through sections on otherness, growth, global issues, boundaries, work, and the history of the United States. In addition to iconic images such as Lewis Hine’s Climbing into America, 1905; Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage, 1907; and W. Eugene Smith’s Dream Street, 1955-56, the gallery has on display two historic works by Augustus Frederick Sherman, who documented new arrivals while working as a clerk at the Ellis Island immigration station from 1892 to 1925.

Two rarely seen Dorothea Lange photographs about the incarceration of Japanese Americans by the U.S. during WWII are also be on view in the exhibition. Withheld from the public during the war by the government, Dorothea Lange’s photographs reveal a hidden truth about a dark chapter in US’s history.

Ernst Haas’s Last Displaced Person Boat from 1951 documents that for a limited time, the U.S. authorized permanent residency for 200,000 Europeans displaced by WWII.

Immigration in Israel is depicted by Ruth Orkin in a touching 1951 portrait of three Jewish teenage refugees from Iraq, their faces pressed up against a window as they arrive in Tel Aviv. 

Among the most poignant images in the exhibition are the portraits of immigrants who told their stories to the photographers. Bill Owens’s 1976 portrait of a worker in a factory notes, “I’m a refugee from China. I sew pockets on pants. Every day I have work, and living here is easy. In China it’s hard to find a job. Someone has to recommend you. I don’t speak English and I’m too old to learn so I’ll never get a better job.” A 2005 print by Dulce Pinzón shows a young man dressed in a Superman costume riding a bike. He is Noe Reyes from the state of Puebla who works as a delivery person in Brooklyn and sends $500 home to his family each week.

About the International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. For more information, visit www.rescue.org

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Bruce Davidson: Inside/Outside - Photographs from the artist’s personal archive at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Bruce Davidson: Inside/Outside

Photographs from the artist’s personal archive

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

September 25 – November 1, 2003

The Howard Greenberg Gallery celebrates the opening of the new gallery space with an exhibition of vintage photographs from the personal archive of BRUCE DAVIDSON, the highly respected and award-winning photographer. A selection of works from the early years of Bruce Davidson’s career, most of which have never before been exhibited, are the first photographs to hang on the walls of the Fuller building gallery, designed by Lubrano Ciavarra Design, LLC.

Bruce Davidson is widely acknowledged as one of the most important photographers in his field. His work has had a major influence on a generation of photographers, critics, and viewers. Bruce Davidson’s talent was recognized early on by a broad range of institutions at the forefront of journalism, photography, and artistic trends. At the age of twenty-four, Bruce Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for LIFE magazine. A year later, in 1958, he was invited to join Magnum Photos, the pre-eminent photo-agency owned by its photographer members. Shortly thereafter, in 1963, he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

Bruce Davidson has been described as an outsider who gets inside his subjects’ lives. He establishes a rich and meaningful visual vocabulary that brings the dignity and diversity of people to the awareness of others. The photographs in this exhibition are taken from bodies of work from the 1950s and 1960s that have been reproduced in many prestigious publications. These include The Widow of Montmartre (1956), an intimate portrayal of the widow of a French Impressionist painter; The Dwarf (1958), haunting images of a circus clown’s loneliness; Brooklyn Gang (1959), an emotionally charged series of a teenage street gang which later was published in Esquire magazine. Brruce Davidson was the first photographer to be awarded the National Endowment for the Arts in 1967. This enabled him to continue his documentation of one block in East Harlem. East 100th Street, published by Harvard University Press in 1970 and re-published by St. Ann’s Press earlier this year, is now considered a modern classic. The later publication includes 37 additional and previously unseen images. In addition, images from Time of Change (2002), Civil Rights photographs from 1961 to 1965, are featured in the exhibition.

Bruce Davidson continues to lecture, conduct workshops and undertake professional commissions throughout the world. He has had one-man exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and the Palais de Tokyo in France. He has received numerous accolades including two awards from the National Endowment of the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Eastman Kodak Reedy Award. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications and his prints have been acquired by many major museums and private collectors worldwide, including Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, Topan’s “Masters of Photography” in Japan, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum Ludwig Cologne, the George Eastman House, Rochester. He has also directed three films.

John Szarkowski, former Director of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art who gave Davidson two solo exhibitions, says of Bruce Davidson’s work: “ Few contemporary photographers give us their observations so unembellished, so free of apparent craft or artifice. The presence that fills these pictures seems the presence of the life that is described, scarcely changed by its transmutation into art.”

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