POST-WAR PERSPECTIVES 1945 -1960
 From
Jan. 19 - Mar 29, 2008, The Laurence Miller Gallery will present POST-WAR
PERSPECTIVES. This survey of more than 50 works made between
1945 and 1960 explores the major trends and attitudes at mid-century as
expressed by photographers around the world, including Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Charles Harbutt, Helen Levitt, Roy De
Carava, Fan Ho, Mario Giacomelli, Paul Strand, Eikoh Hosoe, Alfred
Eisenstaedt, Peter Keetman, Joan Colom, William Klein,
Fred Herzog, and
Ed
van der Elsken, among many others.While
the Anxiety
and alienation seem to be common themes around the globe, from Fan
Ho’s 1955 “Running off the Tracks,” in which a solitary figure
dodges glowing railroad tracks, to Val Telberg’s 1948 self-portrait
from his series “Long Night Group,” in which he seems to dissolve
into thin air. These themes can also be found in Charles Harbutt’s
upside-down trapeze artist, William Klein’s lurching woman, Eikoh
Hosoe’s pale female holding a helpless and shimmering fish, and
Louis Faurer’s 1947 “Goggled-Eyed Man,” surrounded by an eerie
blue light. There
is much experimentation as well. In Vancouver
in the late 1950’s Fred Herzog produced dazzling color pictures of a
downtown awash with neon, while Helen Levitt in |
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