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Email PageLisette Model and Her Successors
September 6, 2007- November 1, 2007
Reception: September 6, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Bruce Cratsley, Lynn Davis, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter Hujar, Raymond Jacobs, Ruth Kaplan, Leon Levinstein, Eva Rubinstein, Gary Schneider, Rosalind Solomon, Bruce Weber
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th StThe broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind, this group show brings together for the first time a selection of vintage works by Model-one of the last century's most significant photographers-and thirteen of her successors.
Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Bruce Cratsley, Lynn Davis, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter Hujar, Raymond Jacobs, Ruth Kaplan, Leon Levinstein, Eva Rubinstein, Gary Schneider, Rosalind Solomon, and Bruce Weber
Lisette Model (1901-1983) was as elegant as she was profane and one of the last century's most significant photographers-a woman whose searing images and eloquent teachings influenced her students Diane Arbus, Larry Fink, and a host of others, many of whom went on to leave their own marks on American photographic history. Model's edgy, indelible point of view gave rise to a portrait of America at all social levels. Her New York City locales ranged from Coney Island to jazz clubs to local hangouts to Fifth Avenue.
Model, a native Viennese, arrived in New York in 1938, a few years after Alexey Brodovitch, art director of Harper's Bazaar, and like him, had resided in France for some fifteen years before settling permanently in the United States. An influx of Continental artistic impulses increasingly pervaded the cultural milieu of New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Model embraced the life and values of the American artistic vanguard, while remaining always and to everyone who knew her somehow different, just slightly mysterious-a figure, in the end, sui generis.
To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of her death in 1983, Aperture is reissuing the classic 1979 monograph. The first book ever published on Model, it is being reissued in the original oversized trim and with the original distinctive design by Marvin Israel, with an updated chronology and bibliography.
The monograph contains more than fifty of Model's greatest images, from the rich idlers on Nice's Promenade des Anglais to the sad, funny, and often eccentric inhabitants of New York's subterranean haunts. As Berenice Abbott said in her preface, "One of the first reactions when looking at Model's pictures is that they make you feel good. You recognize them as real because real people express a bit of the universal humanity in all of us."
Thanks to Fattoria dei Barbi, Innis & Gunn, Montebruno Fine Wine, Prescott Wines, Inc., Wine World Wide, Inc., and Winechilled - Wine Marketing Made Easy for their generous support of Aperture’s opening reception, Lisette Model and Her Successors.
Art Reviews of Lisette Model and Her Successors
| New York Times October 19, 2007 | Martha Schwendener | "The Aperture exhibition, which coincides with the reissue of a 1979 monograph, shows how Model’s edicts were absorbed in the United States. Her best-known pupil, Diane Arbus, perfected Model’s approach, both in street photographs and in images from voluntary home invasions, like Arbus’s “Backwards Man in Hotel Room, N.Y.C.”..." | ||
| The Village Voice September 25, 2007 | R. C. Baker | "Photographer Lisette Model once told her students at the New School, "Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest." How true—painting and drawing demand specialized training, but everyone takes snapshots, so the Vienna-born Model (1901–1983) instilled in her pupils a search for beauty beyond the surfeit of information that even banal photographs deliver...." |
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