Arno Rafael Minkkinen "Performing for the Camera: Forty Years of Self-Portraits"

Barry Friedman Ltd.

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Minkkinen was one of the first photographers, along with Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman, to turn the camera towards their own bodies. As Minkkinen states, “In 1971, at Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, I stood naked in front of a mirror I had placed in the grass [Self-Portrait, Millerton, NY, 1971]. The following year I am floating on ice surrounded by flames [Pachaug, CT, 1972], a performance artist I suppose, but performance art with a purely photographic intent didn’t come into full swing until much later.” In Minkkinen’s work, there is a distinct separation between process and product—not a document of the performance and not a photograph to be manipulated afterwards. For Minkkinen, performance and process stop the moment the shutter fires. “You don’t need the rocket after the satellite is in orbit.” Performing for the Camera: 40 Years of Self-Portraits is a survey of more than 80 works spanning the course of Minkkinen’s 40-year career. The photographs are arranged in groupings that stress the visual and poetic connections between works from different periods of time.

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from April 21, 2012 to June 29, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-04-26 from 18:00 to 20:00

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