Tag: street photography

Barb Choit at Rachel Uffner Gallery

Barb Choit, Untitled Faded Beauty (NYPD #2), digital c-print, 2012.
Barb Choit, Untitled Faded Beauty (NYPD #2), digital c-print, 2012.

Faded posters of ‘fade’ hairdos headline Barb Choit’s latest solo show, ‘Fade Diary.’ Featuring non-professional models, they recall yearbook photos, anthropological studies and mug shots while documenting faded fashions.  In another photo, a model sporting a red glove echoes past styles while reflecting the present day NYC street in an image that has resonance with Lee Friedlander’s store-front photos currently uptown at Pace Gallery.  (At Rachel Uffner Gallery, Lower East Side through Dec 23rd.)

Barb Choit, Barbershop Fade #2, digital c-print, 2012.
Barb Choit, Barbershop Fade #2, digital c-print, 2012.

Lee Friedlander at Pace/MacGill

Lee Friedlander, New York City, gelatin silver print, 2010.
Lee Friedlander, New York City, gelatin silver print, 2010.

Photographer Lee Friedlander returns to his roots by shooting reflective store windows with a 35mm camera in his latest series, titled ‘Mannequin.’  Here, a building’s façade tries to impose its grid on a Dolly-Parton-haired good-time girl while a curtain and rod at the top complicates ideas of public and private space.  (At Pace/MacGill Gallery, 57th Street through Dec 22nd).

Joel Meyerowitz at Howard Greenberg Gallery

 

Joel Meyerowitz in front of Easter Parade, Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1964.
Joel Meyerowitz in front of Easter Parade, Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1964.

Today, Joel Meyerowitz chatted with visitors to Howard Greenberg Gallery on the occasion of a show of his street photographs from the 60s and 70s, which include iconic shots like his couple in camel colored coats walking through NYC steam, the odd spectacle of a fallen man on a Paris sidewalk, and this eccentric human/cat threesome from New York’s 1964 Easter Parade. (On 57th Street through December 1st).