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Anonymous
After Blossfeldt I, ca 1940's |
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Mario Giacomelli
Untitled (grandfather and grandmother), 1986 |
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Anonymous
Calendar Girl Photograph, ca 1940's |
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March 1 - April 13, 2002
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 2002 6-8 PM
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery is excited to announce their upcoming exhibit, Un Regard Oblique: Sidelong Glance. The provocative works of Joel-Peter Witkin, Clarence John Laughlin, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Pierre Molinier, and Mario Giacomelli will be among those featured in this captivating show.
There are many things which, by convention or by fear, we are not allowed to look at, things which the mind longs to gape at in wonder or in horror. But they are forbidden, and so we may observe them only with the sidelong glance. Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery dares you with this exhibition to take the sidelong glance - into the darkness of the world, and your own psyche. These photographs are not ideally beautiful images; they are full of physical and spiritual decay, at once terrible and coy and arousing and grotesque. They describe what it is to be human in the most honest of ways: by avoiding the consolation of beauty and challenging the viewer with the potent realities of death and desire. It is the curved flesh of a woman's legs exposed beneath the gambler's table; the faces of two people so decrepit that they might already be dead; a sculptural, empty coffin with lining that seems to mock the living with its exuberance. There is a reason these visions are conventionally forbidden; you will be aroused, unsettled, and haunted by them.
Come, join us in taking the sidelong glance.
Approximately 30 photographs will be on view beginning March 1, 2002 with an opening reception from 6-8 PM.
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Arthur Tosnansky
5 Skulls of Prehistoric Homo sapiens, 1908 |