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Email PageRecuerdo, a Memory of Latin America 1972 -1979
January 18, 2008- March 8, 2008
Reception: January 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Edward Grazda
SEPIA International | The Alkazi Collection
148 W 24th St Edward Grazda Recuerdo, Huehuetenango, Guatemala (1975) |
Sepia International is honored to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Edward Grazda: Recuerdo, a Memory of Latin America 1972 -1979. “Recuerdo,” defined loosely as a keepsake or a memory, is a major body of photographic work that has never been shown in its entirety. The exhibition features 50 vintage gelatin silver prints of images created in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Edward Grazda became intrigued by the peoples and cultures of South America in 1972, not long after earning his B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. Several months each year for seven years, he made the trip south, searching for the elusive heart of these cultures. Central to the theme of “Recuerdo” is an ever-present recognition of the innate dignity and inner spirit of the people he encountered during these journeys. Both enigmatic and haunting, these images open a portal into the realms of memories, dreams, and the passage of time.
You have to spend time in a community, whether it is a town, village, or small city, in order to get a feel for it. After a time, you can get a sense of where the people congregate. Sometimes it would be the train station that had the most activity. Other times it was a particular street corner, a bar, or the village square. These places each had their own distinctive feel about them. --Edward Grazda, 1980
Born in New York City in 1947, Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Starting in 1972, he began photographing in Latin America. Later he concentrated on Asia, traveling to Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, and India. During the past twenty years his primary focus has been on the people of Afghanistan. Grazda teaches photography at the Harvard University Summer School and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in New York. He has worked on the archives of Walker Evans and Hans Namuth.
The subject of three monographs, Grazda's work has also been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Doubletake, The Christian Science Monitor, and Avenda-E-Afghan, an independent Afghan newspaper. His photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and others. Among his awards are grants by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and 1986, and by the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1986. He has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001, and 2003.
Art Reviews of Recuerdo, a Memory of Latin America 1972 -1979
| The New York Sun February 14, 2008 | William Meyers | "Edward Grazda's exhibition of 50 black-and-white photographs currently at Sepia International is titled "Recuerdo, a Memory of Latin America 1972–1979" in part because of the happenstance that two of the images contain parts of the word "recuerdo," but more because the body of work as a whole has the dreamlike quality of memory...." |
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