Jim Dow "American Studies"
Janet Borden
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American Studies is a history story written in photographs of things. No people are visible in the finite world of Jim Dow’s America. Instead they are represented by their signs, totems, advertisements, storefronts--what anthropologists call artifacts. Since the photographs span more than twenty years of Dow’s work, American Studies shows a part of American life that may vanish, if it hasn’t already.
Jim Dow’s signature style witnesses the openness and individuality of America. He has traveled the country numerous times, and all along the way taken photographs of its objects and buildings. There is a certain nostalgia in the personal and sometimes almost kooky signs and designs that Dow encountered in his travels, but Dow is no sentimentalist. He shoots straight.
American Studies is published by powerHouse in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary at Duke University. The introduction by Ian Frazier is a masterpiece. The book contains 110 color and black and white photographs. Signed copies will be available from the gallery, and Jim Dow will be present to inscribe them as well.
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Schedule
from June 02, 2011 to July 30, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-06-02 from 17:00 to 19:00