“A New and Mysterious Art”: Ancient Photographic Methods in Contemporary Art, a new photography exhibition, will be on show from September 15 through October 29, 2016, at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. The show features contemporary photographs using 19th century photographic techniques and processes such as daguerreotypes, photogenic drawings, calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and camera obscuras.The exhibition looks at the pre-industrial period from 1839, the time when photography was invented through the 1860s. This was an important time when meaningful work was created in photography through experimental hand-fabricated methods to capture light. The result of such experimentation was mysterious and unpredictable. This later fell out of favor by industrialization of the medium. “A New and Mysterious Art”: Ancient Photographic Methods in Contemporary Art is a reaction to this homogenization by acknowledging and embracing the primitive forms of photography.The exhibition features recent work by artists such as Takashi Arai, Stephen Berkman, Dan Estabrook, Adam Fuss, Luther Gerlach, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Matthias Olmeta, France Scully Osterman & Mark Osterman, and Craig Tuffin. Many of these works have never been exhibited before.The exhibition is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 E 57th St Suite 1406, New York, NY 10022. For details, visit, http://www.howardgreenberg.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition
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