Ken Ohara Japanese-American, b. 1942, August 28, 1972, Signed & dated, A pair of gelatin silver prints (printed 2023), 4 1/8 x 6 3/8 in/ 10.5 x 16.2 cm (image) 5 x 7 in./12.7 x 17.8 cm (sheet) Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs

MIYAKO YOSHINAGA Gallery | More than ONE : Ken Ohara’s Photographic Journey 1972-2012, September 15, 2023 – October 31, 2023

“From September 15 to October 31, 2023, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is pleased to present More than ONE, featuring approximately 30 works by California-based photographer Ken Ohara. This exhibition is organized in conjunction with this season’s wide exposure of Ohara’s lifework at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brussel’s Patinoire Royale | Galerie Valérie Bach, and the Paris Photo fair.

“Ken Ohara (b. 1942) is known as an innovator in the genre of photographic portraiture by transforming our standard perceptions of others, ourselves, and what photography might be best suited to accomplish. In 1970, while working as an assistant to Hiro and Richard Avedon, he emerged as a young artist with his seminal ONE series. ONE features close-up faces of more than 500 New Yorkers, suggesting an essentially thin boundary across all human races and genders. The same year he produced a yearlong photographic diary in an intimate miniature album. These remarkable early accomplishments marked the beginnings of Ohara’s photographic journey for the next 50 years or so, a journey upon which this exhibition strives to shed new light.”

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© Meryl Meisler, Jive Guy on Williamsburg Subway, New York, NY, March 1978, Gelatin silver print, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York

CLAMP | Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective : Meryl Meisler, September 14, 2023 – November 4, 2023

“CLAMP is proud to present "Meryl Meisler | Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective"—the artist's second solo exhibition with CLAMP and the first retrospective of the artist's five-decade career as a photographer, which began in 1973.

“The work in “Simply Scintillating” spans from Meisler’s early pictures of suburban Long Island to the frenetic clubs of 1970s Manhattan, to slices of daily life in pre- gentrification Bushwick, to the present, where Meryl has found herself back in the nightlife world documenting the contemporary party landscape through a lens informed by decades spent watching New York and its inhabitants evolve.

“Regardless of whether her subject is a stranger on the Bowery, Grace Jones at a club opening, or a child in Bushwick putting on roller skates, Meisler maintains a perspective and voice as a photographer who does not shy away from the absurd and joyful. As the artist puts it, she has a “queer, quirky eye.””

“A public school teacher for 31 years, Meisler only revealed her vast photographic archive upon retiring in 2010. This exhibition offers a peek into the archive, including vintage and contemporary prints surveying the artist’s entire collection of images.

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Kosti Ruohamaa, Untitled [A fishing vessel in a squall, Georges Bank, Maine, United States], 1957, gelatin silver print. Black Star Collection, The Image Centre

The Image Centre | Stories from the Picture Press : Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press, September 13, 2023 – April 6, 2024

“Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century— from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.”

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