Peter Baker "My Lost City"
Kris Graves Projects
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Photographs are images made from rooftops in lower Manhattan, where he lives. The title derives from the famed essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who having climbed to the top of the newly erected Empire State Building in 1932, saw that the city had limits and that New York was a city after all and not the universe we imagine it to be. As a photographer interested in landscape it was a natural urge for Peter to climb to the rooftops and see out and beyond the obstructed grid in search of new horizons. The roofs gave the artist the freedom and solitude to contemplate the changing urban landscape, compose relationships between neighborhoods and reexamine his immediate surroundings. They also became escape routes from the restrictions of photographing bridges, financial and federal buildings and using a large format camera in an era of paranoia. The photographs depict the transition from the familiar to the anonymous.
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from April 17, 2009 to May 10, 2009
Closing Reception on 2009-05-07 from 18:00 to 21:00