Adam Bartos Exhibition
Gitterman Gallery
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Gitterman Gallery presents an exhibition of never before exhibited color photographs by Adam Bartos. The exhibition includes both work he made in North and East Africa and Mexico in the early 1980s and recent photographs Bartos made in Long Island, New York between 2007-2010. This is Bartos' first exhibition with the gallery.
Bartos’ interest in the 19th century travel work of Samuel Bourne, Robert MacPherson, and others, led him to Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large format camera and color film. His images are thoroughly modern, yet their energy is inspired by the lucid depiction of form and light that the earlier photographers achieved. His attention to the picture plane creates a tension that resonates between the photograph as both his expression of a place and an object in and of itself. None of the photographs are constructed wholly from incident or narrative. As Geoff Dyer notes in the introduction to Bartos’ book Boulevard: "his pictures are like self-portraits of the things in them."
The same impulse is present in his recent work, although the subject matter is found much closer to home, in Long Island. These images have been printed using a four-color carbon transfer process that, with its tonal range and description of fine detail, emphasizes Bartos’ subtle color palette and formal compositions.
[Image: Adam Bartos "Mombasa, Kenya" (park), (1980)]
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Schedule
from March 01, 2012 to May 05, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-29 from 18:00 to 20:00