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Christopher Giglio
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Nir Hod: Mother
by Christopher Giglio
Nir Hod at Paul Kasmin Gallery 515 West 27th Street
March 28th, 2012 - April 28th, 2012
Posted
4/29/12
I felt a quasi-religious feeling upon entering the Nir Hod exhibition at Paul Kasmin. The title of the exhibition, Mother, refers to the image of a woman repeated, icon-like, across the gallery. Vaguely cinematic but with only subtle variation in color to distinguish one painting from the next, I wondered about the significance of the repetition and the meaning of her gesture.
The woman could easily be shopping on Fifth Avenue. Towards the back of the gallery there is a small reproduction revealing the well-known source: Hod's paintings are based on a photograph taken in the W... [more]
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Vivian Maier and Vernacular Photography
by Christopher Giglio
Vivian Maier at Steven Kasher Gallery
April 12th, 2012 - May 26th, 2012
Posted
4/24/12
I first stumbled across Vivian Maier’s black and white street scenes at Mass MoCA over the summer and had the opportunity to re-visit her work in several New York City exhibitions. By now, everyone is familiar with the story behind this work. Maier worked as a nanny and had a passion for photography. Her time off was primarily spent photographing people on the streets of Chicago. She died in 2009, leaving a storage locker full of tens of thousands of negatives and thousands of exposed but unde... [more]
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Cindy Sherman and Eugene Atget at MoMA: Photography vs. Reality
by Christopher Giglio
Cindy Sherman at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
February 26th, 2012 - June 11th, 2012
Posted
4/24/12
The Museum of Modern Art is host to two significant exhibitions, both of which explore Photography’s relationship to reality. Cindy Sherman’s 6th floor mid-career retrospective and Eugene Atget’s “Documents pour artistes”, hidden away in the Photography 3rd floor galleries, represent diametrically opposed positions.
First some notes on the Sherman retrospective, which is the big draw. The first room held a couple of revealing images. Revealing to me at least, because I had nev... [more]
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