Joseph Bellows Gallery presents its new exhibition of vintage color photographs by the late American photographer, Jack D. Teemer, Jr. (1948-1992). Photographs from the American Rust Belt will present Teemer’s large-format street portraits of the working class together with his intimate observations of domestic spaces and larger views of industrial landscapes; forming a rich narrative of a place and the people who lived and worked within its setting.
Jack D. Teemer’s work was presented in the 1980’s alongside several preeminent color photographers such as: Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, and William Eggleston in the important survey, American Independents: Eighteen Color Photographers (Eauclaire, Abbeville, 1987). Two decades later, after Teemer’s death, it was featured in, Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (Breisch, Keller, Westerbeck, Wagner, Getty Trust Publications, 2006). This group exhibition and subsequent book placed Teemer’s work within a meaningful dialog with other photographers who have described aspects of the American social landscape.
Teemer described his work as a way of, “exploring and examining the way people define their spaces through formal organization of color, object and shape relationship and detail. While acting as a form of environmental portraiture, they also serve as documents of changing and disappearing social traditions that are unique to each city.”
EXHIBITION
Jack D. Teemer, Jr.
Photographs from the American Rust Belt
From February 27th to March 31st, 2016
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Ave
La Jolla, CA 92037
United States
http://www.josephbellows.com
