Gitterman Gallery is committed to presenting great art in photography. They have more than 20 years of experience in the field and specialize in connoisseur-level photographs. In addition to representing artists, estates, and private collections, they maintain an inventory of selective work that spans the history of the medium in a full range of styles and periods. In part of the AIPAD Photography Show 2015, the gallery selected for us three prints , Edmund Teske, Edward Weston and Oliver Gagliani.
1. Edmund Teske
Three Children with Halloween Masks, c. 1938-39
Edmund Teske believed in the transformative potential of photography. He was interested in more than the inherent characteristic of the medium to record a specific moment in time. For Teske photography was a way to explore the soul of his subjects and creating the negative was only the beginning. His composites of multiple negatives and his use of solarization, as well as his exquisite gelatin silver prints, express the complexity and depth of his personal vision.
Copyright Estate of Edmund Teske, Courtesy Gitterman Gallery
2. Edward Weston
Franz Geritz, Painter, 1922
This portrait is part of a series of portraits Weston made of contemporary artists who all had exhibitions in Los Angeles in the fall of 1922. Franz (Frank) Geritz was “a Hungarian-born printmaker who taught art classes at various schools in and around Los Angeles. Geritz’s exhibition consisted of woodblock portraits depicting several local personalities and among them were renderings of Weston, [Margrethe] Mather, and an attractive young man named Billy Justema.” — Beth Gates Warren
3. Oliver Gagliani
Untitled, 1974
Oliver Gagliani was an artist who at the age of 29 transitioned from the medium of music to the medium of photography. He explored the expressive potential of abstraction and his prints reveal poetic evidence of the spirit. “Gagliani had a particular eye for tonal harmony, for the delicate balance of black and white in an image, regardless of whether his subject was a weathered door, some peeling wallpaper, or the way the light flared off worn barn siding at a certain time of the afternoon. His prints have the kind of range that is the mark of a master, the deep dark velvety blacks that don’t lose their detail, flanked by brilliant whites and highlights that don’t get washed out into nothingness.” —Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily, July 12, 2013
INFORMATIONS
AIPAD 2015
16 – 19 April, 2015
The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
USA
http://www.aipad.com
Gitterman Gallery
41 East 57th Street
Suite 1103
New York 10022
United States
http://www.gittermangallery.com
