December 31, 2006
NOTED WITH APPRECIATION
This past Thursday I swung by the John Stevenson Gallery on 23rd St. to check out the Philip Trager Retrospective. Trager is the architectural photographer I wrote about last week [see TOWERING TALENT, 12/22/06]. The Stevenson Gallery is a nice quiet intimate spot to enjoy some art on the quick and cheap. I mostly had the place to myself as I enjoyed Trager's photographic prints of buildings in France, Italy, NYC, and Connecticut, as well as portraits of modern dancers. Gallery personnel were present in the background behind room dividers, but were more than willing to let visitors browse at their leisure. The exception was the house docent, a patchwork-colored cat who dutifully followed me around the room like it expected me to steal something.
The standout feature of the Retrospective in my opinion is pictured above. It's an artist's proof of one of Trager's prints, fully notated by the artist to outline the compositional details of the picture as well as writing where dodging, burning, and other developing touches were necessary. It was a fascinating insight into what Trager was thinking while practicing his craft.
The John Stevenson Gallery is just a stopover for this particular exhibition. In the spring, the photographs will head to Oberlin College before finally settling in The Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in DC.
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