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Item Ships From: Manhattan
Crossed Legs
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Urban Photography, Portrait Photography, Landscape, suburban, american, america, legs, figurative, high contrast, vignette, b&w, black & white, figurative photography, fashion, cement, walls, photograph
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
Ted Adams juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams' work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
“I see photography as a way of cropping the world – selectively taking things out of context – which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create 'narrative' and context rather than discard them.”
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, he has turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4” x 6” to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design – yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer's gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras, preferring the archival qualities of black and white film and primitive analog functionality.
In the invitational image, “Beyond” we see an abandoned building. The eye immediately is drawn to the structure’s one indication of life, a sign reading “Beyond” which glows like platinum in contrast to the forlorn setting. One has to wonder what goes on beyond the shut door. Yet the humor lies in the idea that anything in these surroundings could be in the superlative -- beyond the gritty or merely mundane.
Adams' sarcasm veils an artistic integrity. What seems happenstance and simple, a road sign, a graffiti ridden wall, or a bank of phones, belies the artists uncanny ability to see the interesting in the ordinary. In a second picture, “Solitary”, we see the words “solitarily confined” sprawled across a wall. Just to the side of the wall stands a little girl. One might think of the solitary confinement in terms of a jail term or the graffiti an indictment on society. But the surprise lies with the child at play, seemingly free of any constraints at all.
Born in Louisville Kentucky, Adams spent most of his adult life in Philadelphia after having moved there to work as a professional darkroom printer. In addition to artistic and documentary photography, Adams works as a multi-media artist. He curates the online Abandoned Photo Museum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
California Theater Marquee, Los Angeles
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 15.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
Since the inception of Sunshine & Noir in 2001, Alleman has shot extensively in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and other American cities. In his latest iteration Alleman takes a detour beyond the frenetic landscapes of urban America into Paris - playfully guiding the viewer through a simultaneously familiar and foreign geography.
In the exhibition, square and panoramic landscapes and iconic landmarks stretch across the gallery, where Alleman creates intrigue by re-expressing instantly recognizable subjects. Images with blurred, vignetted edges epitomize his surrealist style, haunting throughout the series. His artful mastery at capturing movement is seen in the invitational image, San Fernando Valley, LA, where a van is swallowed by a mass of twisted bicycles. The blurred clouds above give the illusion that the broken down vehicle is actually racing down the highway. This interesting paradox of a decrepit van seemingly in lively motion reflects Alleman’s trademark style - quirky, humorous, and often nostalgic.
His love for the ironic and misplaced becomes further evident in the panoramic California Theater Marquee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salto de Tigre
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 5.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Swayback
By Mark
Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 1.
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ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott Archer developed the collodion process in 1851. Artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, William Henry Jackson and Civil War photographer Mathew Brady used the process, due to its cost and versatility advantages. In addition Sink and Hatgi’s work can also be seen revived in contemporary artists work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lower Manhattan, New York City
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, New York, Night, Landscape, NYC, City Lights, Motion, bridge, cityscape, cars, b&w, black & white, vignette, urban photography, high contrast, motion blur, highway, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
Fiber print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...
Category
1950s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sanders
By Mark
Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Style
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
Category
1950s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sailboats in Dartmouth, facing the English Channel, Devon, UK
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, Landscape, Water, Sea, Surfing, Sports, Beach, Summer, Seascape, B&W, film photography, film, Robin Rice, Boat, ocean, water, Beach, Boats, Outdoors, Nature, Silver ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Heptacodium miconioides - Seven-Son Flower
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Trees, Botanical, Nature, Study, Still Life, Ecological, black & white, b&w, texture, trees, bark, leaves, photography, contemporary photography, woodlands, botanica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams
Sarah Vaughan
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Sarah Vaughan
1948 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition 25
with certificate of authentic...
Category
1960s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Debbie Harry on the set of The Foreigner East Village, 1977 (Blondie)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cooler than cool... Debbie Harry, New York, 1977, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici.
The Foreigner (direct...
Category
1970s Pop Art Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Ascending
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Danielle
By Benjamin Heller
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, men, male, man, surfing, swimming, beach, summer, sports, figurative, ocean, beach, surfboard, surf, photography
All the photographs in a limited edition. If the ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunday Morning, 1992
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Women, Fashion, Hat, Model, model, hat, woman, B&W, black and white photography, fashion photography, Todd Burris, archival pigment print
Listing is for UNFRAMED pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Minerva, 2000
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1 of 25
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Atlantic City, New Jersey
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 15.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alex Collar
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
"I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them."
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Group on the beach, Los Angeles
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, landscape, beach, water, waves, sea, Los Angeles, California, photography, film photography, LA photograph, beach photography
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
My Magic, William Street, NY
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Debbie Harry
By William Coupon
Located in New York, NY
Debbie Harry, 1981
Silver gelatin print
image size: 48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known princip...
Category
1980s 85 New Wave Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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Klaus Nomi
By William Coupon
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Nomi, 1979
Archival pigment print
image size: 36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his f...
Category
1970s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colette (Victorian Punk)
By William Coupon
Located in New York, NY
Colette (Victorian Punk)
Archival pigment print
36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known princip...
Category
1970s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Show Jumper", 2007
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Pete Kelly captures the focus and composure required of equestrians. The woman faces away from the camera, focusing on the obstacle that her horse and her will have to endure as a te...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
By William Coupon
Located in New York, NY
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Archival pigment print
24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1970s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Surfers only", San Diego, CA, 2009
By Lynda Churilla
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Sennon Cove Surfers on the Cornish Seaside", UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition 1 of 20.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Sunset, Dartmouth, Facing the English Channel", Devon, UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"View to St. Michael
s, Mount Penzance 1", Cornwall, UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tom Kelley : Stella Stevens Suntan
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Ann St. Marie c. 1950's
C print
22 x 28 inches
Edition of 45
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Captio...
Category
1960s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Midtown Manhattan, July 2006", New York, 2006
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Alleman's use of perspective and framing gives the dingy NYC street vendor an elevated sense of grandeur.
Thomas Alleman’s urban landscapes convey the pulsating energy and sensual e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"110 Freeway, Los Angeles, September 2005", Los Angeles, 2005
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
In this photograph a singular car drives on the freeway while being perfectly highlighted by a ray of light. Alleman's Holga lens renders this everyday image into an interesting comb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Tiny Surfers in the Celtic Sea, Polzeath", Cornwall, UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pygmalion, Dartmoor UK
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
40x30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
1957: French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 - 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Ev...
Category
1950s American Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Bay Roans", Dartmoor, UK, 2010
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for FRAMED print.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Lead Screw", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Family of Elephants, Krugar Park South Africa
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Trip Hammer", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Cutting Dies", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Gill (Side Nude), 1997
By Barnaby Hall
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
After 30 years of only exhibiting fine art photography, the Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring a selection of her gallery photographers and t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Oil Distribution Manifold", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Ideal", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
“IDEAL" features a 1.5 horsepower lawnmower engine manufactured in 1924 that still works. And the brand name-Ideal-speaks to an attitude about fabrication and manufacture linking pri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Notched Ear", Dartmoor, UK, 2007
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Rippon, Dartmoor UK
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Gas
Gasoline", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexpo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Foxtor", Dartmoor, UK, 2010
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for FRAMED print.
Edition of 1.
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Patricia Heal's 8th show at the Robin Rice Gallery marks a departure from her previous figurative work with a visual essay celebrating the wild ponies of Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. The dedicated exhibit reflects Patricia's life-long love affair with the area and its inhabitants—the semi-feral native ponies that have roamed the moors for centuries.
The work represents a conscious shift to provide a respite from the modern world and create a sense that one has stumbled upon a treasured possession. With a nod to Peter Beard and Deborah Turbeville, each photograph, whether from negative or digital, is printed on canvas that has been distressed to take on a worn, slightly damaged texture and then stitched to another piece of canvas with horsehair. Through tearing, staining with archival inks, charcoal and graphite, the canvasses take on a look and feel of a valued relic from the past only now rediscovered by the viewer. There will be no editions as they are truly one-of-a-kind.
Born and raised in the region, Dartmoor was an important part of Patricia's childhood experience. The magical ponies and misty, granite flecked moorlands always held a special place in her imagination. She has recently been inspired by the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT), whose mission it is to save the indigenous pony from extinction. It is estimated now that there are as few as 1500 ponies kept on the moors.
In the invitational image, Lord Byron “—Indigenous Dartmoor Pony”, we see a close-up of a pony against a distressed canvas background that takes on the elegant look and feel of tapestry, framing the pony's powerful profile and highlighting its mane.
In another image, “Sherberton Crossroads”, a dappled grey pony gallops across the terrain. The pony's elongated shape blends perfectly with the horizon, a mix of sparse, flat rock and low brownish green vegetation that gives way to a blue expanse of sky. It's a seamless integration of the statuesque horse and nature.
The 30 individual canvases of different shapes and sizes are presented in collage formation on one wall. Heal sees the series as one large complete work. On the facing wall, Heal's video installation of the ponies roaming wild in their environment adds yet another layer to the show. It is surrounded by text of a poem by Emily Bronte and an article about Dartmoor written by Andrew Price.
The exhibit will also be shown in London next year, further raising awareness of these wild ponies who embody freedom and strength despite their rare breed status. Steven Spielberg's “Warhorse” was shot in Dartmoor last year and will be released later this fall. He says of the area:
“I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I did while filming “Warhorse” on Dartmoor.” —Steven Spielberg, Enjoy Dartmoor Magazine.
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