Julian Wasser and Julian Wasser Exhibitions
Danziger Gallery
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Opening on February are two new exhibitions illustrating the yin and yang of American substance and style.
Jim Krantz occupies a unique place in the history of contemporary art and photography. His pictures of cowboys were re-photographed by Richard Prince and at one point were not only the highest-selling photographs ever to be auctioned, but were used as banners by the Guggenheim Museum when they held their 2007 mid-career retrospective of Prince’s work.
It was not an accident that Krantz’s work was selected by Prince. Krantz had studied with Ansel Adams and Paul Caponigro, and since the 1980s had been mixing his personal work with assignments and campaigns for companies from Samsung to the U.S. Marines. Focusing largely on the American West, Krantz is known for his combination of technical skill and the emotive resonance of his imagery.
The exhibition focuses on Krantz’s personal western work - the source imagery that has come to define the contemporary art world’s vision of the American West.
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz; and a young Jodie Foster are already classics.)
In 1968 TIME Magazine assigned Wasser to go to the home of the young writer Joan Didion whose book Slouching Towards Bethlehem was becoming a literary sensation. Wasser posed Didion with her recently acquired yellow Corvette Stingray and the resulting photographs became such icons of style that they inspired the fashion house Celine to do a campaign with the model Daria Werbowy posing in the window of a car just like Didion.
For our Project Room show – the gallery will be exhibiting selected published images as well as outtakes and never before seen contact sheets of the Didion shoot.
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Schedule
from February 12, 2015 to March 21, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-02-12 from 18:00 to 20:00