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May 8, 2008 - June 14, 2008
Reception: May 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Pablo Bartholomew
Bodhi Art
535 W 24th StBodhi Art, New York is pleased to present an exhibition by the renowned photographer Pablo Bartholomew, opening on May 8. The exhibition is a collection of 70 black and white prints taken by the artist from age 17 to 25. This exhibition, having previously shown at the Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, France; National Museum, New Delhi and National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai covers the period of 1970s and 80s.
Representing his earliest documentary photography, these prints remain as apropos today as they were then. There is an acute absence of documentation of changing urban India in these two decades, particularly Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta, the three cities referenced in the title. This body of photographs serves as a chronicle of the cities’ shifting nature, character and function. As testimony to the enduring value of his images, these records of urban life have immediacy, an ability to make the “past” contemporary to the viewer.
Primarily, however, these photographs are witness to the flux in the social and cultural landscape at that point; through the uniquely personal filter of images of the artist’s self-portraits, friends, family and social milieu. In this exhibition, Pablo Bartholomew’s is the floating, nomadic world of his teens, of psychedelic lifestyles and of his presence within what he refers to as “the first free-thinking generation after Independence” – a world he had personal exposure to as the son of Richard Bartholomew, preeminent art critic, curator, poet and photographer. These prints are notes from his diary enacting personal dialogs, which inadvertently connect to a universal, cross-generational ethos.
Pablo Bartholomew is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, a selection of which, are World Press Photo award in 1975 and 1984; fellowship to work on the Naga tribes in India from the Institute of Comparative Studies in Human Culture, Norway (1995). A few of his exhibitions include Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, France (2007); Noorderlitch Photo Festival, Netherland (2006 and 2007); Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco (1997); Out of India, Queens Museum of Art, NY (1997); Public Places/Private Spaces, Newark Museum, New Jersey (2007). He has also been published in New York Times, Newsweek, Time, National Geographic and Geo amongst others. His works are in the collections of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and Archives of the International Center for Photography, New York.
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