Established in 1979, The Robert Koch Gallery exhibits and offers a wide range of exemplary photography that spans the history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Their extensive inventory emphasizes contemporary photography, Modernist and experimental work from the 1920s and 1930s, and 19th century photography. The gallery selected for us us five important prints by Josh Begley, Michael Wolf and Captain Linnaeus Tripe on show during the AIPAD 2015.
1. Josh Begley
Josh Begley is a data artist who appropriates available satellite imagery to create provocative images of socio-political systems. For his two series, Prison Map and Empire.is, Begley wrote a software program that captured from the web extremely high-resolution images of 4,916 prison facilities and close to 625 military bases. The satellite views are at once painterly and abstract, while dense with photographic information. Begley’s images expose and examine our prison and military systems, entities that are largely visually hidden.
In 2012, Begley created Drones+, an iPhone app designed to send users a notice every time a drone strike is reported in the news. Now known as Metadata+, it was rejected from the App Store five times due to “excessively objectionable or crude content,” before being accepted by Apple in 2014.
Begley’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, the New York Times, NPR, Wired Magazine, and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
2. Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf’s work examines life in the layered urban landscape, addressing juxtapositions of public and private space, anonymity and individuality, history and modern development. In a diverse array of photographic projects, from street views appropriated from Google Earth, to portraits capturing the crush of the Tokyo Subway, and dizzying architectural landscapes, Wolf explores the contemporary city life. Wolf’s most recent series, Paris Roof Tops, re-contextualizes the Parisian landscape as reductive geometric abstractions and addresses density of population from a distinctive perspective.
3. Captain Linnaeus Tripe
We also will be showing two Captain Linnaeus Tripe prints at AIPAD.
One is an image from Madras and the other a panorama from Burma. As you may know, there will be a Tripe show at the MET during AIPAD.
INFORMATIONS
AIPAD 2015
16 – 19 April, 2015
The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
USA
http://www.aipad.com
Robert Koch Gallery
19th Century, 20th Century, and Contemporary Photography
49 Geary Street 5th Floor
San Francisco California 94108
United States
http://www.kochgallery.com/
