Loving

Mitch Epstein
Untitled [New York #9], 1996
Chromogenic development print
2020.10.96

Since the 1970s, Mitch Epstein has been an early proponent of color photography as a fine art, which he often uses to subtly examine American society. This photograph, and several others on view in this gallery, are drawn from a body of work entitled “The City.” The photographer describes the collection as a “series of photographs that reveal the blurred line between New York City’s public and private space and question its increasing surveillance. These pictures describe a chaotic and layered city, where people create an intimate solar system of family, friends, and associates to survive the brute anonymity of public space.”

Stephen Barker
Nightswimming, 1993–1994
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.8

After Stephen Barker graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art in 1980, he became an assistant for noted portraitist Hans Namuth and architectural photographer Wolfgang Hoyt. In response to the growing AIDS crisis, Barker became an activist, working with ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and managing the Brooklyn Needle Exchange for two years. He also took his camera into New York City’s sex clubs. Given the necessity for anonymity, many of the figures that appeared in this work, entitled Nightswimming, appear indistinct at first glance. The settings are often darkened cinemas and hallways, yet there are flashes of intelligibility—tenderness, passion, and even introspection.

Carrie Boretz
New York City Subway, #20, 1995–1996
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.32

William Klein
Woman Dancing and Hand, 1955
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.220

Ted Croner
Top Hats at Horse Show, 1947–1949
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.56

Carrie Boretz
New York City Subway, #25A, 1995–1996
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.37

Rosalind Solomon
Nick and Nita Pippin, New York City [From the series “Portraits in the Time of AIDS”], 1988
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.562

Max Kozloff
Brooklyn Botanical Garden, 1991
Chromogenic development print
2020.10.221

Greg Miller
Tax Day, General Post Office, 33rd Street and 8th Avenue, April 15, 1997
Gelatin silver print
2020.10.276