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| Treasures From The Vault June 14 - July 20, 2002 Opening Reception: June 14, 2002 6-8 PM Since the our opening seven years ago, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery has collected and exhibited some of the most important and captivating artworks made in the photographic medium. This summer, we are pleased to feature a selection of these works in the show Treasures From the Vault. They range in style from the documentary to the allegorical to the abstract, but their coherence lies in the very way that they describe the conceptual development of the medium itself. Many seminal photographers will be represented in this exhibition. For instance, Jack Delano created powerful documentary images under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration during the early 1940’s. He showed both the social and physical landscapes, including some of the first photographs of early war industry, and images of every day life in Puerto Rico. Aaron Siskind also began as a documentary photographer in the 1930’s, but he would eventually disassociate himself from the Photo League to pursue his own personal aesthetic vision. This vision was inspired in part by the contemporary movement of Abstract Expressionism in painting. His gestural images and tactile surfaces were influential both in themselves, and as an exploration of the relationship between painting and photography. Another abstact photographer, Carlotta Corpron, will also be featured in this show. Hers is a very different kind of abstraction than Siskind’s, though; it is rounded and lyrical, at times using light to create sculptural volumes, and at others, to create a superficial plane. Corpron’s association with members of the New Bauhaus is evident in her influential modernist aesthetic. These and other excellent artists (including John Albok, Bill Brandt, Ralph Gibson, and Jacques-Henri Lartigue) will be represented in the exhibition Treasures From the Vault. Please join us for the opening reception, June 14, 2002, 6-8 PM, and visit the gallery though July 20, 2002 to view this important selection of photographs. |
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