Art Out: Gordon Parks: Half and the Whole, Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in color and Mitch Epstein: Property Rights
Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama, 1956, Copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation. Courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Gordon Parks: Half and the Whole, on view at both gallery locations. As a photographer, film director, composer, and writer, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a visionary artist whose work continues to influence American culture to this day. In collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation, this two-part exhibition featuring photographs that span from 1942–1970, demonstrates the continued influence and impact of Parks’s images, which remain as relevant today as they were at the time of their making. The exhibition is accompanied by a short essay written by Jelani Cobb, Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and Columbia University Professor, who writes of these photographs: “we see Parks performing the same service for ensuing generations—rendering a visual shorthand for bigger questions and conflicts that dominated the times. Bearing witness.”
On view at our 20th Street location is a selection of works from Parks’s most iconic series, among them Invisible Man and Segregation Story. These images, many of which have rarely been exhibited, exemplify Parks’s singular use of color and composition to render an unprecedented view of the Black experience in America. The earliest photograph in the exhibition, a striking 1948 portrait of Margaret Burroughs—a writer, artist, educator, and activist who transformed the cultural landscape in Chicago—shows how Parks uniquely understood the importance of making visible both the triumphs and struggles of African American life.
Antibes, 1964, Courtesy Jacques Henri Lartigue, Courtesy of Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, 28 Vignon Street
28 Vignon Street is pleased to present the online exhibition of the French painter-photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (Fr, 1894-1986) “Life in Color”
His 'visual diary', is how Jacques Henri Lartigue called his photographic albums which he revised throughout 1970 - 1980. This exhibition shows his photographs next to the original album pages.
The images of Jacques Henri Lartigue from the beginning of the 20th century were first exhibited by John Szarkowski in 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York. At the time, the curator presented Lartigue as a mere amateur. This was the starting point for the artist to rethink his life, his way of working and his oeuvre. Starting from the traditional practice associated with the amateur photographer - gathering his images in photo albums - Lartigue made an impressive body of work, laying out his life in an ensemble of 126 large sized folios. When he was over 70 years old, Lartigue used these albums to revisit his life and mixed his own history with that of the century he lived in, while symbolically erasing painful episodes.
Standing Rock Prayer Walk, North Dakota 2018, dye coupler print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Acquired with the support of David H. Gibson, Subie and Phil Green, Stephen and Suzie Hudgens, and Morris Matson in honor of John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photographs, P2019.99, © Black River Productions Ltd. / Mitch Epstein
This December, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) will present Mitch Epstein: roperty Rights, the first museum exhibition of photographer Mitch Epstein’s acclaimed large format series documenting many of the most contentious sites in recent American history, from Standing Rock to the southern border, and capturing environments of protest, discord, and unity. Produced between 2017 and 2019, the 21 works in the Carter’s exhibition contrast the majesty of America’s natural landscape with its fraught history of claimed ownership, prompting pressing yet enduring questions of power, individualism, and equity. Mitch Epstein: Property Rights will be on view at the Carter from December 22, 2020 to February 28, 2021.
