Laurence Miller Gallery

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Since opening in 1984, the Laurence Miller Gallery has concentrated on the exhibition and sale of museum quality contemporary and vintage fine art photography. We specialize in American photography since 1940, Asian photography since 1950, and international, contemporary photo-based art.

Barbara Jaffe—DARK SUN an online exhibition"When Barbara Jaffe recently presented me with a copy of her beautiful monog...
10/06/2022

Barbara Jaffe—DARK SUN
an online exhibition

"When Barbara Jaffe recently presented me with a copy of her beautiful monograph, DARK SUN, I was deeply struck by how sensual and mysterious her pictures were. Working in a technique that made her prints appear as negatives rather than positives, a process I was familiar with, rooted in the mid 19th century, her pictures hovered on the outer boundaries of representation, giving enough details to reasonably recognize her subjects, for the most part people she was close to, at the same time suggesting a reality that was more invention than description. Fortunately, this is what I love about photography. Like great music, it often is the instruments that carry the tune, not just the lyrics." - Laurence Miller

Barbara Jaffe’s series DARK SUN embraces the expressive potential of negative photographic images. The reversed tonal values in her prints opens up a surprising and sensuous view of the world, as if we are seeing a secret side of things. In 1987, after years of working in color, Jaffe was drawn to the hands-on experimentation offered by her black and white darkroom. Struck by the way one of her photographs seemed utterly transformed when printed as a negative, she initiated her three decade exploration into this process of photographic alchemy.

In the introduction to her book DARK SUN, curator and critic Lyle Rexer observes that Jaffe’s prints reverse the normal order of things, where typically we understand light to fall on objects, “it is as if the negative unlocked the unknown capacity of objects in the world to emit light”. This inverted quality of light allows us to see things with fresh eyes, revealing the latent spirituality in our everyday world.

Barbara Jaffe’s work has been widely exhibited, and is in the collection of many museums in the U.S. and abroad, most notably the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium and others.

Her book, DARK SUN, has been acquired by the libraries at Harvard, Yale, NYU, UCLA, MassArt, and over 40 others in Europe and Asia.

http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/exhibitions/barbara-jaffe

From our Online Exhibition: FRED HERZOG/LEE FRIEDLANDER: A CONVERSATIONFred Herzog and Lee Friedlander's photography is ...
07/27/2021

From our Online Exhibition: FRED HERZOG/LEE FRIEDLANDER: A CONVERSATION

Fred Herzog and Lee Friedlander's photography is easily distinguishable—Herzog used Kodachrome color slide film nearly exclusively, whereas Friedlander primarily shot black and white negative film—yet when seen together they feel like partners in the creation of a North American panorama that spans 60 years. Their photography reveals a shared interest in the unique look of modern life and the ways that urban complexity intersects with people's lives—Both photographers were interested in .

Both Herzog and Friedlander were consciously influenced by Eugène Atget and his pictures of Parisian streets and storefronts. Atget’s use of shop windows as a framing device, as well as the window's ability to reflect the street opposite, is a key inspiration.

The influence of Robert Frank’s unvarnished pictures of American life also can easily be seen in both photographer's work. Frank’s dedication to investigating far flung places along America’s highways is a key precursor for many of Friedlander’s pictures.

Finally, Walker Evans’s clear eyed documentation of vernacular architecture influenced the way Herzog and Friedlander depicted the rapidly changing North American landscape.

Our Online Pop-Up Show “Taking Shape” on Artsy.
04/17/2020

Our Online Pop-Up Show “Taking Shape” on Artsy.

Current show featuring works by Kevin Umaña and Mary Laube at Laurence Miller Gallery Apr 17th – May 16th

As the first in a new series of Online Pop-Up shows we're excited to present JONATHAN COWAN - SPRING HAS COME AGAIN (lin...
03/26/2020

As the first in a new series of Online Pop-Up shows we're excited to present JONATHAN COWAN - SPRING HAS COME AGAIN (link below). The gallery is expanding from our globally recognized photographic platform. With this series we invite our followers to explore curated works that, often as not, venture into other media.

Jonathan Cowan's watercolors evoke traditions like botanical illustration and early color theory diagrams, offering a sense of connection to perennial themes that reach far back into time. These works embody the quintessential elements of springtime: we see energy radiating from the sky, beckoning bulbs to open up and send stemmed flowers skyward. Like the season itself Cowan's pictures offer a sense of beauty, vitality, and surprise.

"Spring has come again. The Earth
is like a child that knows poems by heart,
many, o so many . . . . For the hardship
of such long learning she receives the prize."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, XXI (First Part), 1922

http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/artists/jonathan-cowan-spring-has-come-again

We invite you to explore the poetic world of Japanese photographer Yoko Ikeda. While so many of us are confined to our h...
03/23/2020

We invite you to explore the poetic world of Japanese photographer Yoko Ikeda. While so many of us are confined to our homes we’re offering the opportunity to travel around the globe through the eyes of our gallery artists.

“Yoko wrote to us this weekend saying: In Tokyo, the cherry blossoms are blooming. People are quietly enjoying viewing blossoms because we have been asked to refrain from holding parties under the trees this year. In the present situation, we cannot leave Tokyo and travel to faraway places, so I am walking and taking pictures around my neighborhood. I realize the scenes I'm familiar with are changing with the times, and there are a lot of beautiful things I haven't noticed.”

Yoko's playful and delicate vision of her immediate surroundings might inspire each of us to celebrate what is nrear, what is familiar, what is possible.

In a typically insightful review Loring Knoblauch says this about John Dowell’s work: “They smartly use the simple dots ...
01/17/2020

In a typically insightful review Loring Knoblauch says this about John Dowell’s work: “They smartly use the simple dots of white cotton to force us to remember truths that have largely been forgotten, his images encouraging the ongoing process of collapsing, reassessing, and rebalancing our collective history.”

John Dowell, Cotton: Symbol of the Forgotten Miller By Loring Knoblauch / In Galleries / January 17, 2020 JTF (just the facts): A total of 26 color photographs, either framed in silver or unframed and pinned directly to the wall, hung against while walls in the two room gallery space, the....

John Dowell discussing his powerful show COTTON Professor C. Daniel Dawson, former curator at the Studio Museum of Harle...
01/04/2020

John Dowell discussing his powerful show COTTON Professor C. Daniel Dawson, former curator at the Studio Museum of Harlem and a professor in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University.

John Dowell speaking at the gallery today. His show Cotton runs through January 25th.
01/04/2020

John Dowell speaking at the gallery today. His show Cotton runs through January 25th.

Opening tonight from 6-8 our first solo exhibition by John Dowell: COTTON - Symbol of the Forgotten. There will be a rec...
12/05/2019

Opening tonight from 6-8 our first solo exhibition by John Dowell: COTTON - Symbol of the Forgotten. There will be a reception for the artist this evening from 6-8p.

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