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◇ An Evening with Nan Goldin and Vince Aletti: Remembering Peter Hujar on Vimeo
On January 8th, Fraenkel Gallery hosted a dialogue about the work of Peter Hujar, on the occasion of the exhibition Love & Lust. On hand were Vince Aletti, respected photography critic for The New Yorker, and Nan Goldin, whose 1980s work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, produced a sea-change in the photographic medium. Both were intimate friends of Hujar’s. The evening was moderated by Jeffrey Fraenkel.
◇ The Unphotographable - YouTube
Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to announce The Unphotographable, an ambitious survey exploring the history of that which cannot be photographed. Comprised of approximately fifty works, the exhibition interweaves prints by artists as wide ranging as Alfred Stieglitz, Sophie Calle, Man Ray, and Glenn Ligon, as well as works by anonymous and virtually unknown photographers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In the book's introduction Jeffrey Fraenkel writes, "From the moment of its invention almost 175 years ago, photography has proven adept at depicting the photographable: the solid, the concrete, that which can be seen. [...] But another tradition exists, a parallel history in which photographers and other artists have attempted to describe by photographic means that which is not so readily seen: thought, time, ghosts, god, dreams. A vast array of strategies has been employed to bring such pictures about, tactics that have intersected and enriched the strains of modern art."
Artists participating in the exhibition include Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, F. Baldet & F. Quénisset, Walead Beshty, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Liz Deschenes, Kota Ezawa, Tom Friedman, Adam Fuss, Paul Graham, Idris Khan, Clarence John Laughlin, Richard Learoyd, Glenn Ligon, Adrien Majewski, Man Ray, Christian Marclay, Chris McCaw, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Richard Misrach, Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch-Jodko, Gerhard Richter, Frederick Sommer, Alfred Stieglitz, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
The Unphotographable will be on view from January 3 through March 23, 2013, and will be accompanied by a 124-page hardcover book.
More information about the exhibit may be found here:
http://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/the-unphotographable
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