Lee Marks Fine Art, established in New York City in 1981, is now located near Indianapolis. As a private dealer, LMFA represents a small stable of recognized international photographers, advises collectors on the acquisition of historical photographs, and periodically guest-curates exhibitions. The gallery presents Where Hunting Dogs Rest‘s series by Martin Usborne during the AIPAD Photography Show 2015.
1. Martin Usborne (British, b. 1973)
Galgo and River, 2014
Each edition sold as a pair of separate prints
SMALL: edition of 6 (+ 2AP): paper size 25”x20” (doubled); starting at $3,500 unframed
LARGE: edition of 3 (+ 1AP): paper size 40”x32” (doubled), Starting at $6,500
Where Hunting Dogs Rest (from his forthcoming 2015 book):
Every winter throughout Spain it is estimated that up to 100,000 hunting dogs are abandoned or killed at the end of the hare-coursing season when they are no longer needed, perform badly or are too old. This book documents those dogs that have been rescued and sets them against the locations in Spain where they are typically abandoned: the sides of roads, the ravines, the rivers, the edges of towns, and the empty car parks.
Shot in a style that references the tone and mood of Velázquez who painted at a time when these dogs were treated with great respect, Martin Usborne’s photographs show both the classical beauty of the animals but also the ugliness of their modern situation — their bodies are weakened, their expressions fearful.
The dogs in these pictures are the fortunate ones — they have found a place to rest and recuperate. The landscapes bear testament to those less fortunate animals who find a different kind of rest beside the roads, in the rivers, or out in the open plains.
Following his successful book The Silence of Dogs in Cars (Kehrer 2012)
Martin Usborne again presents unusual and moving portraits of dogs.
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INFORMATIONS
AIPAD 2015
16 – 19 April, 2015
The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
USA
http://www.aipad.com
Lee Marks Fine Art
2208 East 350 North
Shelbyville Indiana 46176
United States
http://www.leemarksfineart.com/
