The Nailya Alexander Gallery based in New York selected for us four prints shawn during the AIPAD Photography Show 2015 : George Tice, Alexey Titarenko, Denis Brihat and Irina Ionesco. Many works are also available with Lori Grinker, Jane Hilton, Nicholas Hughes, Sergey Maximishin, William Meyers, Evgeny Mokhorev, Irina Nakhova, Max Penson Estate, Pentti Sammallahti and Arkady Shaikhet.
1. George Tice, Petit’s Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 1974
Platinum/palladium print
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Edition 23/30
Petit’s Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a monumental platinum/palladium print from master printer George Tice (b. 1938). Platinum/palladium prints are the most archival of all photographic prints; platinum is even more stable than gold, and platinum prints are estimated to last thousands of years without any discernible loss of image quality. Platinum prints also have an extraordinary tonal range, which Tice develops to great effect in his explorations of the American urban and rural landscapes. George Tice’s work is represented in over one hundred museum collections worldwide, including MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he had a solo show of his New Jersey work in 1972.
2. Alexey Titarenko, Domino Factory, New York, 2011
Toned gelatin silver print
17 x 17 in. (43.2 x 43.2 cm)
Edition 2/10
Alexey Titarenko’s (b. 1962) Domino Factory, New York, takes as its subject the iconic Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, photographed from behind with a view of the lower Manhattan skyline. At the time of its construction in 1882, the factory was the largest sugary refinery in the world; despite widespread protests and efforts to save the building, demolition commenced in fall 2014 to make way for new development. Titarenko’s photograph documents and memorializes the architectural and historic landmark on the eve of its destruction. As with all of his work, Titarenko shot the factory with a large-format view camera and printed and toned the photograph by hand using classical darkroom processes.
3. Denis Brihat, Poire (Pear), 1971
Vintage gelatin silver print with sulfration
15 11/16 x 11 ¾ in. (40 x 30 cm)
A. P. from edition of 6
Poire (Pear) is a striking example of Denis Brihat’s (b. 1928) one-of-a-kind photographic techniques. The color in Brihat’s toned prints is mineral-based, made of the salts of silver, gold, sodium, iron, and uranium, among others, and is achieved solely in the darkroom. Each print may take a month or more to make, and the resulting prints have a richness and luminosity that is truly unequalled among contemporary photographers. This process is particularly suited to bringing out the natural richness of flowers and fruits, like Poire (Pear), which are central to Brihat’s body of work. At 86, Brihat no longer works in the darkroom; as a result, his work is becoming increasingly rare.
4. Irina Ionesco, Untitled (Fafa II), 1970
Vintage gelatin silver print
7 13/16 x 10 13/16 in. (20 x 27.5 cm)
Untitled (Fafa II) is representative of French-Romanian photographer Irina Ionesco’s (b. 1935) earliest body of work. After a childhood spent travelling the world with circus troupes as a dancer, acrobat, snake-charmer, and contortionist, Ionesco settled in Paris, where her partner Corneille introduced her to photography in the mid-1960s. She immediately devoted herself to the medium, transforming her apartment into a studio and photographing her friends and family in elaborate, theatrical costumes inspired by cabaret, psychoanalysis, dream imagery, and the gothic. Fafa II features one of Ionesco’s favorite models and exudes the mystery, allure, and exocitism that characterize all of Ionesco’s work.
INFORMATIONS
AIPAD 2015
16 – 19 April, 2015
The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
USA
http://www.aipad.com
The Nailya Alexander Gallery
Contemporary American and European Photography/Russian Vintage (1920s-1960s)
41 East 57th St.
Suite 704
New York 10022
United States
http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com
