William Albert Allard "Five Decades"
Steven Kasher Gallery
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"Five Decades" features over 30 large-scale color photographs and a selection of unique Polaroids from the artist’s almost fifty-year career. Accompanying the exhibition is the release of the publication William Albert Allard, Five Decades: A Retrospective (Focal Point,2010). The book is part memoir and part retrospective, documenting his career as a photographer and writer.
William Albert Allard’s work has moved millions in the pages of National Geographic for nearly five decades. He is the colorist and dramatist that National Geographic photographers esteem the most as a pioneer and peerless exemplar of natural, expressive color.
Allard is Manet with Kodachrome, wielding slashing strokes of blood red and bullhide black. Allard is Hemingway with a Leica, crafting complex tales of matadors and cowboys, of fishermen and farmers. His characters struggle, with dignity and grace. They attend to the ceremony of their own survival, alone, but in touch with sympathetic others. William Albert Allard could be the greatest photographer you’ve never heard of.
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Schedule
from December 02, 2010 to January 08, 2011
Opening Reception on 2010-12-02 from 18:00 to 20:00