Date: Sep 4, 2015 - Oct 11, 2015
HARDHITTA GALLERY Hohenzollernring 53, 50672 Cologne, Germany Bene Taschen Mail:info@hardhittagallery.com Mobil:+49 163 61 30 694
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Arlene Gottfried–These Days
September 4 –October 11, 2015
Opening: September 4, 6-10 p.m. – the artist will be in attendence
On September4th the Hardhitta Gallery will open the first solo exhibition featuring American photographer Arlene Gottfried (*1960) in Germany since 1982. The show will present 23 cibachrome and gelatin silver prints taken throughout the city of New York and its boroughs between 1970 and 2012.
Born in Brooklyn, Gottfried took her first photographs in 1969 at the legendary Woodstock Festival; capturing unusual and striking moments would become her trademark.Always drawn to the diverse communities she knew while growing up, Gottfried went on to document the vast diversity of New York City. Beginning with Coney Island and Crown Heights, she expanded her radius to the Lower East Side, Spanish Harlem, and then toother regions of the United States.
Arlene Gottfried depicts her fellow New Yorkers with intimacy and valiance, revealing fascinating portraits of people who seem to operate outside of conventional rules and assumptions. For one photograph, a nude bodybuilder posednext to a Hasidic man and proudly announced, “Take my picture with him; I am Jewish too.” Elsewherea man was sunbathing ona lounge chair in the middleof the West Side Highway, ora boy grinningin the freezer of a butcher’s shop in Boston. Through her special blend of the personal with the peculiar, the photographer forges a profound connectionwith her subjects, and draws viewers into remarkable and surprising situations.
Gottfried’s photographic journal, taken over the course of four decades, is a multifaceted homage to her native New York City, its inhabitants, and the New York “state of mind” –soulful and emotionally charged, wild and crazy, nostalgic and touching.
Arlene Gottfried lives and works in New York.
Herworks are part of the permanent collections at:
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; The New York Public Library, New York; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Her works have been exhibited at:
The Museum of the City of New York, New York / Museum of Modern Art, New York / Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach / Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn / Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York / Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis / Leica Gallery, New York.
HARDHITTA GALLERY
Hohenzollernring 53, 50672 Cologne, Germany Bene Taschen Mail:info@hardhittagallery.com Mobil:+49 163 61 30 694
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