NYAB Event - Peter Leitch "New York to New Orleans"

Peter Leitch "New York to New Orleans"

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At Soho Photo Gallery
Media: Photography

Peter Leitch exhibition contrasts New York City's verticality, its busy crowded streets and profusion of media generated imagery, with the flat horizontal deserted highways, cotton fields and low-rise architecture of the American South. These visual contrasts serve to both mirror and differentiate the simplicity of the rural blues from the complexity of urban jazz. This musical analogy no doubt stems from Leitch's musical background. (His latest jazz CD is called Self Portrait, Jazz House 7003.) He says, "The shadow, or dark areas, of a photograph correspond to the bass in the audio spectrum, the highlights to the treble, and all the grays in between are the mid range areas. Shapes, angles and lines are like rhythms. One tries to learn ways of seeing, in the same way we develop our musical ear."

[Image: Peter Leitch "West 14th Street"]