Jill Freedman “Long Stories Short”

Steven Kasher Gallery

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Steven Kasher Gallery announces a major exhibition, Jill Freedman: Long Stories Short, the first exhibition of the artist’s work at the gallery. The exhibition features over 50 black and white vintage prints from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. This overview includes work from her famous projects on New York cops, New York firemen, Resurrection City protestors, circus workers, and dogs, as well as unpublished photographs. When Freedman holds a camera it is always to stand up for intimate causes. Photography is not her business, but her life partner. She photographs what she cares about, whether that be major events of the 20th century such as Civil Rights protests and the after-effects of the Holocaust, or the everyday life of her beloved New York City.

Described by art critic A.D. Coleman as “one of the great unsung documentary photographers of her generation”, Jill Freedman has captured over the past 40 years the joys and tragedies of ordinary life. In 1975-81, executing what would become some of her most iconic work, Freedman followed the firemen of Harlem and the South Bronx with her camera in hand, after which she transitioned to photographing New York City policemen in the Lower East Side and Times Square. Without a doubt Freedman’s heart belongs to New York City, her chosen home since arriving here at age 25. “Coming to New York is always a way of getting away from your own life,” she confesses. In New York she exposes her lens to the heroism, athleticism and drudgery of our civil servants. She also scrutinizes the sex, violence, squalor and cheeky humor scattered through our city. She portrays the citizens of New York with great affection, but also with feelings of amusement, disgruntlement, anger, sorrow, even despair. She is a photographer of tremendous emotional range.

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Schedule

from September 17, 2015 to October 24, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-09-17 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Jill Freedman

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