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Email PageSpirit of Platinum
March 1, 2007- April 28, 2007
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, George Tice, Koichiro Kurita
Fotosphere
511 W 25th St Manuel Alvarez Bravo Landscape and Gallop (1932) |  George Tice Two Amish Boys (1962) |  Koichiro Kurita Rock and Reeds (1992) |
FOTOSPHERE GALLERY is proud to present three master photographers from three different countries who share their love for platinum printing,"the prince of media", as referred to by Alfred Stieglitz. In this exhibition, each artist affirms his dedication to the painstaking process which produces the permanent beauty of platinum and palladium prints.
MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO (Born Mexico City 1902- Died Mexico City 2002) " I believe that when a person is attentive to reality he finds all that is fantastic. Here on earth are symbol and mystery of ordinary living. When people look for it, they find a contact with that enormous surprise: reality." Over the last 70 years, Alvarez Bravo's work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, culminating in the exhibition MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (February 20- May 18, 1997). In1976 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and began to work with platinum paper as he had with his earliest work 50 years before. The work of Alvarez Bravo is in major museums and private collections and his photographs appear in books and catalogs.
GEORGE A.TICE (United States 1938 -) Tice can be labelled a masterful technician in the platinum process which he revived for some of his work in the early 1970s. Like Alvarez Bravo he has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, as well from the National Endowment for the Arts. Tice's career in photography spans more than 40 years .His work has been shown in important Museum exhibitions including a landmark solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972). Tice's work is in major museums and private collections and appears in numerous books and catalogs. Tice has been asked by several museums and estates to print from the negatives of such important historical photographers as F.H. Evans, Francis Bruguiere, Edward Weston and Edward Steichen.
KOICHIRO KURITA (Japan 1943 -) "Around 1980,I had a fateful encounter with Thoreau's Walden Pond. I was moved by the passage, 'Absolute freedom of the spirit without any constraint by society's roles and to enjoy it in harmony with nature'. It was a reminiscence of Zuangzi's philosophy and so close to the Oriental way of understanding of nature. I was inspired by its clairvoyant, independent thinking. This was the start of my photographs as an art." In 1983, Kurita chose the mountain country of Yatsugatake as the site for a studio and darkroom to house an 8"X10" enlarger and began making large format photographs. In 1990 he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council (John D. Rockefeller Fund) and began living in New York City where he currently resides. Like Alvarez Bravo and Tice, he is devoting himself to the technically complex process of printing in platinum on Japanese handmade paper. He has had museum and gallery solo exhibitions in the US, France and Japan and his work is represented in those collections.
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