Homer Page "In Between, New York, 1949"

Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Howard Greenberg Gallery announces an exhibition of photographs by Homer Page – a gifted but overlooked artist – who actively worked in the 1940s and 50s. The exhibition focuses on an extraordinary body of New York City images which Page produced with funding from a Guggenheim Grant, awarded in 1949. This body of work represents a fascinating look at New York in the 1940s, revealing the complex character of the quintessential New Yorker. Through his unique fusion of documentary and fine art photography, Page adeptly captures the zeitgeist of post war New York: commuters in transit, advertising expressed in signage, consumer culture, and isolated figures resting and watching. Page sought and documented the tell-tale moments and connections that were so ingrained in everyday life. Keith Davis, curator of photography at The Nelson Atkins Museum and author of The Photographs of Homer Page, The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949-50 writes “stylistically his photographs represent a crucial missing link between the warm, humanistic socially motivated documentary work of the 1930s and 1940s and the tougher, moodier, grittier work of the later 1950s.”

[Image: Homer Page "New York, June 8, 1949" (1949) gelatin silver print 14 x 11 in.]

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from January 08, 2010 to February 20, 2010

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Homer Page

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