Posted by Foto Care | Posted in Photo Exhibits in NYC
Posted on March 8, 2010 at 2:55 pm

A photography exhibit not to miss. February 25 – April 24, 2010

Edwynn Houk Gallery
Midtown
745 5th Ave, 4th floor, 212-750-7070

February 25 – April 24, 2010
Opening: Thursday, February 25, 6 – 8 PM
Web Site  http://www.houkgallery.com/

As the country struggled to regain its sense of direction following the political activism and social idealism of the 1960’s, photographers embarked on a search to discover new subjects, methods, and meanings. Color offered an obvious if indistinct way forward, a path leading beyond the void left by the 1960s and the era of the “concerned photographer” (as defined by Cornell Capa in 1968) toward some new as yet to be defined sense of purpose. 1970s color photography may thus be characterized as a chaotic and disparate search, a heterogeneious effort encompassing diverse bodies of work by artists as dissimilar as Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerwitz, William Eggleston and other towards the rediscovery of something ennobling and purposeful in modern American life.

Kevin Moore , Curator, Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 – 1980

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