Rudy Burckhardt "Jasper Johns – Black and White"

Danziger Gallery

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Coincidently connecting two current New York museum shows – "Jasper Johns: Gray" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Rudy Burckhardt" at The Museum of the City of New York – our new exhibition, "Jasper Johns – Black and White" exhibits for the first time vintage black and white photographs of Jasper Johns' work from the 1950s and 1960s.

While clearly made for promotional and reproductive purposes for Johns' early exhibitions at the Castelli Gallery and for museum shows like Johns' 1964 exhibition at The Jewish Museum, these 8 x 10 photographs – beautifully shot, crafted, and printed – are at once a documentary record of the works made at the time of their creation and evocative images in their own right. The skill of the art copyist photographer is not commonly remarked on, but it is interesting that many of the prints we are exhibiting were each stamped by the individual photographer. Given the complexity of lighting a two dimensional work of art so that it is both clearly and cleanly lit as well as retaining the life of the original art work is not a simple task. In these photographs there is a sense of pride in the accomplishment as well as a sense of authorship.

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Schedule

from April 12, 2008 to May 17, 2008

Artist(s)

Rudy Burckhardt, Jasper Johns et al.

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