Robert Klein Gallery presents a new series of color photographs by New York City–based photographer Arne Svenson titled “A Beautiful Day”. Featuring images taken by Svenson from his apartment windows in Tribeca during the height of Covid-19 lockdowns, the exhibition is available online and in-person at Robert Klein Gallery from January 15 – March 18.
Whether he is photographing sock monkeys, expansive landscapes, or unaware New Yorkers, photographer Arne Svenson looks beyond his subjects to seek out universal truths in the images he captures.
The works on view in “A Beautiful Day” are a natural continuation of Svenson’s controversial series “The Neighbors”, in which he photographed residents of a floor-to-ceiling glass apartment through their windows. Although their identities were obscured—“I was not photographing these subjects as specific, identifiable personages, but more as representations of humankind, of all of us” Svenson said—the opening of the show at Julie Saul Gallery in 2013 came with a lawsuit against Svenson that claimed invasion of privacy among other charges.