Lindsay Blatt "Repair & Shine"
Rabbit Hole Studio Gallery
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This is a solo photographic exhibition featuring large-format environmental portraits and still lifes of neighborhood shoe repairmen and their shops.
In our throw-away world teeming with molded plastic products, Lindsay pauses to celebrate the tradition of skillful repair carried out with age-old skills and time-honored tools. Little removed from their traditional roots, the shoe repairmen in Lindsay's photos mend footwear in a manner that has not changed for decades. Enter these photographs and you smell the tanning solutions, the scent of leather, the sweat of honest labor. Behind the assembly lines and blister packs, Lindsay reveals an unseen realm where practiced hands refurbish, resole, and breathe new life into shoes that have lives of their own. She celebrates the dedication of these men who persevere generation after generation in tiny shops filled with spinning brushes, leather stitchers, and shoe forms. With the detail of a 4x5 view camera- itself an anachronistic instrument in a digital world- Lindsay's work, too, is a labor of love.
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Schedule
from November 06, 2008 to November 30, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-11-06 from 17:00 to 21:00