2.27.2012

ADAM BARTOS: Travel Work

Teotihuacan, Mexico (agave plants), 1981
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

Mombasa, Kenya (park), 1980
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

County Road 80, Southampton, NY, 2010
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

Martin's Marine, Bay Shore, NY, 2010
Courtesy of Adam Bartos/Gitterman Gallery

"Adam Bartos’ interest in the 19th century travel work of Samuel Bourne, Robert MacPherson, and others, led him to Egypt, Kenya, and Mexico with a large format camera and color film. His images are thoroughly modern, yet their energy is inspired by the lucid depiction of form and light that the earlier photographers achieved. His attention to the picture plane creates a tension that resonates between the photograph as both his expression of a place and an object in and of itself. None of the photographs are constructed wholly from incident or narrative."Gitterman Gallery

Adam Bartos | March 1–May 5
Gitterman Gallery
New York, NY

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