Past
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Americans in Kodachrome
December 11, 2004 – February 5, 2005 A phenomenal testimony to an often idealized memory of postwar democracy, Americans In Kodachrome is an assembly of the nostalgic, conceptualized and brought to fruition by renowned conceptual artist, photographer, and printer, Guy Stricherz. Read more -
William Eggleston
September 18 – November 27, 2004 By now, William Eggleston's once seditiously catholic treatment of subject matter in photography has been consecrated in the liturgy of contemporary art. A generation of photographers inspired by Eggleston's innovations have attuned their eyes and cameras to the nuances of the seemingly innocuous. A generation of canny viewers possess a... Read more -
Birney Imes: Juke Joint Revisited
July 10 – August 28, 2004 A child of the 1950s segregated South, Birney Imes embraced photography in part as a means to explore the social facets of the community from which he was withheld during his youth. Initially, Imes' subjects were the people themselves, the occupants of that unfamiliar culture. His subsequent photographs of local... Read more -
Dorothea Lange: Vintage Silver Gelatin Prints
April 3 – June 26, 2004 ROSEGALLERY's exhibition of vintage silver gelatin prints includes several of Lange's iconic FSA images. This familiar context, however, frames an expansive collection of Lange's often surprising later oeuvre, including many previously unpublished images. Pedestrians and commuters from the "City Life" series are carefully plucked from their anonymity by Lange's camera. ROSEGALLERY's exhibition includes selections from Lange's work in regions as remote as North Africa and Hong Kong, and as intimate as her yard. The result is a testament to the honesty of vision, longevity and consistency of an artist already venerated but perhaps not entirely understood. Read more
