Mark Cohen
dal 22/10/2010 al 1/2/2011
Segnalato da
22/10/2010
Mark Cohen
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Strange Evidence. A select group of some fifty of Cohen's photographs made over the past forty years
Strange Evidence. Cohen (born 1943) appeared on the American photography scene in the early 1970s and, in the ensuing decades, distinguished himself as one of the most original American street photographers. Cohen's pictures are often unsettling, showing us a world filled with anxieties, accidents, and desires. He approaches these motifs, however, with surprisingly gentle humor. While Cohen's photographs seem to reveal elemental aspects of human behavior and urban life, they are far from objective documents. He often employs an aggressive flash and radical cropping, and the resulting images are clearly shaped as much by Cohen's encounters with his subjects as by the people and places themselves. This exhibition surveys a select group of some fifty of Cohen's black-and-white and color photographs made over the past forty years. Together, these pictures chart the transformations that have happened in cities such as Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, demonstrating that even the most subjective photographs can reveal historical truths. Curator: Peter Barberie.