Posted by Elizabeth Stacy | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:11 am
The Leica Gallery Presents:
wowe: Nightclubbing New York in the 80’s
On View: March 4, 2011 – April 16, 2011
The Leica Gallery / 670 Broadway, Suite 500 / New York, NY 10012
To best explain this upcoming exhibit we took this from the Leica Gallery WebSite:
“Fluffy hair, parachute pants, A Flock of Seagulls, Danceteria: If it weren’t for Paris and Berlin in the ‘20s and Ancient Rome around 264 BC, New York in the ‘80s could lay claim to hosting the world’s most fabulously decadent decade of all time.” – Stephen Saban, founding editor, Details
German-born portrait photographer wowe (Wolfgang Wesener) got his start cap¬turing New York’s nightlife for Details magazine in the 80’s. His images of this unique and decadent period chronicle the night-time prowling of such club deni¬zens as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lisa E, James St. James, Diane Brill and Michael Musto and celebrities on the rise including Madonna, Brooke Shields, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Jenny Lumet and Matt Dillon. Shot with an old Leica SL and a modified handheld flash, the black-and-white portraits are particularly compelling as each subject makes eye contact with wowe, who never clicked without permission.
In 2009 Edition Braus (Heidelberg) published a two-volume slip-cased collection: essence | twenty-five years of portraits by wowe.
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