Robert Tat Gallery presents until February 6, 2016 selections from the collection of Robert E. Jackson. The exhibition “Vernacular Vixens: Found Photographs of Women” is drawn from Jackson’s collection of over 11,000 found and vernacular images, and features approximately 35 photographs of women and the female form. The show includes images from various areas within vernacular photography, including press photos, double exposures, snapshot portraits, negatives printed as positives, color photographs and larger anonymous images.
Robert Jackson is one of the most important active collectors of the vernacular photograph. He has been an avid proponent of the snapshot as art, and selections from his collection have been featured in numerous museum and fine art gallery exhibitions.
Several photographs from The National Gallery exhibition are included in “Vernacular Vixens” and will be available for purchase for the first time in a gallery setting. These pieces are in their original exhibition frames and carry a provenance label on the back of the frame stating the piece was exhibited at the museum.
Collecting snapshots and other vernacular images as aesthetic objects is really a process of connoisseurship. Since these photographs were not made with the intention of being art, we might better call them “accidental art”. Their artistic merit is established by the collector’s eye. This involves a process of selection, of looking through sometimes thousands of photographs to find one that meets the collector’s aesthetic.
EXHIBITION
Vernacular Vixens, Found Photographs of Women
From the Robert E. Jackson Collection
From December 3, 2015 to February 6, 2016
Robert Tat Gallery
49 Geary Street – Suite 410
San Francisco, CA 94108
USA
http://www.roberttat.com
