"Hail Traveler! The Photographer as Tourist, and the Tourist as Subject" Exhibition
Rick Wester Fine Art
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Works on view include a video piece by Lilly McElroy, titled "The Square-After Roberto
Lopardo," a thirty minute video piece documenting a performance in Chicago. McElroy was contained in a square drawn on the sidewalk of a city street preventing passerby's from entering the space. She obstructs the outsider from inhabiting this "public" space, occupied daily by locals and tourist's alike. Other work includes images from Richard Avedon's In the American West, when Avedon travelled the U.S. in search of the ordinary subject rather than the stereotypical view most American's had of the image of the West.
Other highlights include work from Jonathan Smith's ongoing series, East/West, an exploration of America's coastlines. Work by emerging artist Brad Farwell, titled Fourth, The Tourists exposes the many tourists who flock to New York's Times Square everyday in search of that perfect snapshot. The timeless work by the likes of Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Harry Callahan and Garry Winogrand will also be paired with the emerging viewpoints on display.
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Schedule
from July 07, 2011 to August 12, 2011
Artist(s)
Richard Avedon, Jehsong Baak, Harry Callahan, Louis Faurer, Brad Farwell, Sandi Haber Fifield, Robert Frank, John Goodman, Sharon Harper, Sarah Hotchkiss, Laurie Lambrecht, Anthony Maine, Lilly McElroy, Jeff Mermelstein, Dana Mueller, Bea Nettles, Jonathan Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Garry Winogrand