New Yorker Fiction / Real Photography
dal 8/6/2011 al 8/7/2011
Segnalato da
Michael Ackerman
Bill Armstrong
Julie Blackmon
Elinor Carucci
Alejandro Chaskielberg
Weng Fen
Adam Fuss
Sally Gall
Tierney Gearon
Julian Germain
Matt Harnett
Peter Hujar
Kahn + Selesnick
Justine Kurland
Dorothea Lange
Jocelyn Lee
Ethan Levitas
Michael Lewis
Loretta Lux
Alen MacWeeney
Stephen Mallon
Marilyn Minter
Sylvia Plachy
Martin Parr
Gus Powell
Tokihiro Sato
Bastienne Schmidt
Cindy Sherman
Andrea Stern
Juergen Teller
Kevin Trageser
Peter Turnley
Carla van de Puttelaar
Paolo Ventura
Tim Walker
Katherine Wolkoff
Meredith Allen
John Baldessari
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Luc Delahaye
Susan Derges
William Eggleston
Anna Gaskell
Mario Giacomelli
Gilbert & George
Milton H. Greene
Teun Hocks
Izima Kaoru
Malerie Marder
Ryan McGinley
John Sann
Carla Williams
Elisabeth Biondi
Steven Kasher
8/6/2011
New Yorker Fiction / Real Photography
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
A selection of over 30 important photographs selected by Elisabeth Biondi and Steven Kasher from the artwork accompanying Fiction stories published in The New Yorker from 1998 to 2011. This exhibition is a tribute to the distinguished New Yorker Visuals Editor Elisabeth Biondi and to the extraordinary photography she has brought to the The New Yorker for fifteen years.
In partnership with The New Yorker, Steven Kasher Gallery is honored to present New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography, a selection of over 30 important photographs selected by Elisabeth Biondi and Steven Kasher from the artwork accompanying Fiction stories published in The New Yorker from 1998 to 2011. This exhibition is a tribute to the distinguished New Yorker Visuals Editor Elisabeth Biondi and to the extraordinary photography she has brought to the The New Yorker for fifteen years.
New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography features photographs by such illustrious figures as Adam Fuss, Tierney Gearon, Peter Hujar, Justine Kurland, Loretta Lux, Justine Kurland, Marilyn Minter, Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, Juergen Teller, Paolo Ventura and many more.
In addition, excerpts from Fiction stories whose artwork are featured in the show will be included in the exhibition. This roster of important authors includes: Julian Barnes, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Don DeLillo, Nadine Gordimer, Steven Millhauser, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates and more.
For over 85 years The New Yorker has presented the world’s greatest short story writers. But only under Ms. Biondi’s visual editorship have these been accompanied by artwork, most often photographic. The counterposition of fiction with the facticity of photography makes a stimulating friction. The fictions are moored in visual facts. The pictures absorb narrative readings.
The process of selecting the Fiction photographs is rigorous. It starts with searching the encyclopedic brains of Biondi and her staff, and their vast library of photo books. Most weeks a query e-mail goes out to a couple of hundred of colleagues: photographers, editors, scholars, gallerists and curators. Images from the to-be-published story are evoked in haiku-like lines. Man waiting alone at bar on Halloween, everyone in costume except him. A shiny green John Deere diesel tractor, tires as tall as a man. The question is: do you have any pictures like that? You will find answers in this exhibition.
For more information or press requests please contact Christiona Owen at 212 966 3978 or christiona@stevenkasher.com.
Opening Reception: June 9th, 6-9 PM
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm