Mario Algaze "Forty Years"
Throckmorton Fine Art
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The gallery is pleased to offer an exhibit highlighting four decades of work by the accomplished photographer, Mario Algaze. The exhibit will present 35 images included in the handsome catalogue of his work published in 2010, "Mario Algaze: Portfolio." Algaze has worked throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including his native Cuba, and his photographs reveal his intimacy with the region and its peoples. Algaze is a master of black-and-white photography. His use of shadow is reminiscent of early photography. His compositions are careful, but not studied. He commonly includes figures, but does not offer portraits. Instead, he uses individuals, caught in the course of prosaic activities, like praying or riding a bicycle, to suggest depth and scale, and so, seemingly, to suggest our place: we are part of a larger “setting.” Algaze has a formal, beautiful way of capturing the essence of Latin America. Algaze’s father left Turkey after World War I for Cuba, but in 1960, a year after the Cuban Revolution, the family moved to Miami. Algaze was but thirteen at the time. He taught himself the art of photography and gained fame for his portraits of celebrities, from Mick Jagger to Nina Simone to Rufino Tamayo. In time, though, Algaze moved from photographing artists to being an artist himself. Algaze’s work has been widely exhibited and is in the collections of numerous museums, including the Houston Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
[Image: Mario Algaze "La Catedral Primada de Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia" (2006) gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in.]
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from November 10, 2011 to January 07, 2012