At Home. Portrait of a place and time - and a class - in America
At Home. Wrighton produced a portrait of a place and time - and a class - in America that brings a segment of history more alive than any textbook and is better to look at than most of them. The place comes through clearly enough in photographs of streets and diners, hotels and storage rooms, but it is in the portraits of people that it is most crucially discovered. His work spanned a relatively small area, the downtown of Binghamton, New York, and a few nearby cities, and he had only a relatively short time to do it in, for he died in 1988 at the age of 38. (Vicky Goldberg). Private view and presentation of the new book from 6 to 9 pm 11th, November 2010.