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| From photography's birth to the turn of the century, the first 50 years were a time of boundless inventiveness. Choices of media, fine materials, magnificent presentations, and passionately well-crafted images were the standard. But the next 50 years were different. The death of Stieglitz took away photography's greatest advocate for recognition as an art form; and two World Wars took away the choices of fine materials and left one, the ubiquitous silver-gelatin print. Photographs became things that could be easily manufactured with little variation, as a commodity. Factory-manufactured silver gelatin papers were the medium, by default. In 1970, the materials available to the artist were the same as those available to the drugstore.
Today, now that many photographs are no longer available for free, the situation is improved. But in truth, for most of us as collectors, the questions of "who actually made this" and "of what" still don't bear much discussion. We covet and collect and pay for the image that obsesses us. But beyond that we just hope for the best. And that is a problem for photography, both from the point of view of artists who would like to have choices ... and from the point of the view of the art collector, who might be interested in photography, but who is still reluctant to buy. And furthermore, now we have the issues of digitization, and the questions of archival quality and conservation. |
Shows at John Stevenson Gallery 338 W 23rd St
| Past Exhibitions | ||||||||
| Philip Trager Retrospective | Philip Trager | Nov 30, 2006 | - | Jan 13, 2007 | ||||
| Vintage Photographs, 1910 - 1973 | Imogen Cunningham | Sep 8, 2006 | - | Nov 25, 2006 | ||||
| Open By Appointment Only | Aug 20, 2006 | - | Sep 7, 2006 | |||||
| Noble Processes, in a Digital Age | May 3, 2006 | - | Aug 19, 2006 | |||||
| Sheila Metzner: New Work, 2000-2005 | Sheila Metzner | Mar 2, 2006 | - | Apr 22, 2006 | ||||
| Dancers : : Egypt | André Naggar | Feb 18, 2006 | - | Feb 25, 2006 | ||||
| A Geometry of Echoes | Joséphine Sacabo | Dec 8, 2005 | - | Jan 14, 2006 | ||||
| 1978 until now | Mark Beard | Sep 8, 2005 | - | Oct 15, 2005 | ||||
Artists at John Stevenson Gallery
Berenice Abbott, Anderson & Low, Charlie Arnold, Craig Barber, Mark Beard, Ruth Bernhard, Linda Broadfoot, Lana Caplan, Brigitte Carnochan, Martha Casanave, Toni Catany, Lucien Clergue, Imogen Cunningham, Dennis Daragh, Caroline Davies, Adolph de Meyer, Cy DeCosse, Marianne Engberg, Frederick Evans, Arnold Genthe, Joy Goldkind, Bedrich Grünzweig, David Halliday, V. Tony Hauser, Paul B. Haviland, Jefferson Hayman, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene, Frank Hunter, Kenro Izu, Sy Johnson, Anthony Jones, Stan Klimek, Heinrich Kuhn, Koichiro Kurita, Brian Lav, Marcus Leatherdale, Achim Lippoth, Mary Ann Lynch, George Platt Lynes, Michal Macku, John H. Metoyer, Sheila Metzner, Meredith McKinney, Duane Michals, Nickolas Muray, André Naggar, Walter W. Nelson, Will Hiroshi & Lisa Oda, Michael O'Neill, Elizabeth Opalenik, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Kenneth Parker, Rondal Partridge, Christopher Pekoc, Irving Penn, James W. Pitts, Fred Price, Lilo Raymond, Frank A. Rinehart, Ernestine Ruben, Ryuijie, Joséphine Sacabo, Katsumi Sato, Vincent Serbin, Hugh Shurley, Barbara Singer, Eduard Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Karl Struss, Philip Trager, Arturo Tulinov & Leila Bowie, Sarah van Keuren, Nana Watanabe, Clarence White, John Yang, Dimitris YerosBooks and DVDs Image browser
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Update/Enhance Information for John Stevenson Gallery (last updated 2006-02-09)
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