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| Activiteiten - Opening |
The Carl Guderian Collection's Seven Deadly Sins / Jan Prent: Wharf and Wall - New Photographic Work
Zaterdag 25 september 2010
Open 16:00 t/m 19:00
Amsterdam -
Suzanne Biederberg gallery opent de expositie The Carl Guderian Collection's Seven Deadly Sins en Jan Prent: Wharf and Wall - New Photographic Work.
Het engelstalig persbericht:
The Carl Guderian Press Photo Collection's Seven Deadly Sins
Co-curated by Addie Vassie (Gallery Vassie).
The Guderian Collection reflects one individual's passion for "found" photography. Carl Guderian has sought press prints that are visually arresting and occasionally of historical or cultural importance. The collection highlights the quirky, surreal and sometimes beautifully ordinary in photojournalism. This exhibition groups photos in a refreshing way under the rubric of the Seven Deadly Sins as a way of imposing order, however arbitrary, on the diverse images.
In the middle of the 20th century, before the age of television, the print media fed the public appetite for the visual with images supplied by photojournalists. Most worked for agencies such as Associated Press and PIX in the US, the Paul Popper Agency (UK), Keystone and Dalmas (France) or ANP (Netherlands). But even the most sensational of these prints were considered disposable, and some never saw print at all. Press bureau archives often ended up on the street.
This archive of original black and white silver gelatin press photos reclaims from oblivion a wonderfully unique survey of life, personalities and propaganda of the mid-20th century. The collection includes images by both well-known documentary photographers such as Alfred Eisenstaedt and John Gutmann and those lesser known. Significantly, all of the photographs exhibited are vintage prints from the analog age of the 1930s to the 1960s, and are accompanied by their original annotations, giving them a fuller dimension.
Well-known images such as Yves Klein's famous "leap" from a Paris roof sit alongside purely "slice-of-life" images like Cliff Richard having a quiet pint in a London pub.
Jan Prent: 'The Wharf & the Wall': a new body of photowork.
Following his last impressive exhibition at the Suzanne Biederberg Gallery in 2007, Jan Prent's new work deals with his need to create order out of chaos in our world--the inevitable decay of man, material and our environment--and register the inherent beauty of the process. Prent was struck by this beauty when he stumbled upon an old wharf on the outskirts of Amsterdam, where ships were left to decay.
Prent's earlier work involved a more literal portrayal of reality, using examples of architecture in its simplest form--the facades of self-built houses in Belgium, bars in the Caribbean and temporary seaside buildings--and turning them into abstract shapes. These were assembled into abstract forms, from small-format photographs.
The new work is purely abstract, close-ups of matter in decay. They are whole images taken with a digital camera. As before, Prent is drawn to coastlines.
Prent is influenced by Diane Arbus, pointing his camera at decaying industry rather than at decaying people.
| Instelling: | Suzanne Biederberg Gallery |
| Adres: | 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1 |
| Postcode: | 1015 RW |
| Plaats: | Amsterdam |
| Website: | www.galeries.nl |
