Until October 29, 2014, The Gold Standard Café presents Stephen Perloff‘s “West Philly Days,” a selection of images that Perloff made on the University of Pennsylvania campus and in his West Philadelphia neighborhood between 1967 and 1976, when he was an undergraduate and graduate student at Penn.
Images at Penn include an antiwar teach-in; a basketball game with Penn’s Jim Wolf jumping center against the University of Massachusetts’s Julius Erving (Dr. J to us now), as well as a portrait of Charles Frank, Philly’s famous “Doggie Man”; an image of an alumnus of the class of 1900 proudly carrying his class flag at the 1975 reunion; and an evocative portrait of the world-famous architect Louis Kahn.
Other portraits include children and teens — some made when Perloff served as a substitute teacher for a semester in West Philadelphia junior high and elementary schools — as well as sensitive images of a local tailor, a newspaper vendor, a Red Cap at 30th Street Station, and a family portrait of his next door neighbors in Powelton — father, mother, and two young daughters — all dressed up for the Easter Parade.
Perloff, who has exhibited his work at various galleries and museums, views his show at The Gold Standard as a kind of celebration of the spirit of the community organizing and antiwar movements he participated in while at Penn. (He also worked at the fabled Philadelphia Resistance Print Shop while still in graduate school.) While he hopes people will come and enjoy some of the events and the extraordinary people he met who lived or worked in West Philly in the late 1960s and 1970s, in the spirit of the time, for those interested, he will also offer exhibition prints at reduced prices and an extended series of 8″x10″ prints at only $100 each.
Stephen Perloff is a photographer, the founder and editor of The Photo Review, the editor of The Photograph Collector, author of numerous articles about photography, and a curator who has organized more than a score of exhibitions at venues from The Painted Bride to the James A. Michener Art Museum.
EXHIBITION
West Philly Days, de Steven Perloff
Until October 29th 2014
Gold Standard Café
Philadelphie
USA
