A travelling exhibition of 112 vintage photographs from the Howard Greenberg Gallery archives, presented in conjuction with diCHromA Photography.
Currently on view at the Campredon centre d´art in Isle sur la Sorgue, France, from March, 09 to June, 16 2019.

“A photographic archive is essentially a form, a typology, and a sensitivity. The only way such an archive can be managed is if everything conforms to a clear and logical order, the specificities of which are established by the person who instils and orchestrates the dialectical movements that inhabit it.

Howard Greenberg is a luminary on the international photographic scene. He has been a gallerist for nearly 40 years and involved in the development of a considerable number of private collections throughout that time.

The archive in his New York City gallery contains nearly 30,000 prints by the greatest names in 20th-century photography – photographers who have helped shape our gaze and created a collective imagery and a very personal imagination.

This archive tells a thousand stories and includes as many figures as there are eyes to contemplate it. It contains all possibilities. Each image is the beginning of a story, and a portrait of the person recounting it.

The exhibition-collection we are presenting has come together slightly in the manner of an exquisite corpse (cadavre exquis), the literary game invented by the Surrealists, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy and which Georges Bataille described as “the most perfect illustration of the mind.” One after the other, the images are juxtaposed.
Sometimes they contradict each other, sometimes they embrace or gaze at each other. They end up forming what André Malraux called a musée imaginaire (imaginary museum), because each one of them, through the presence of the others, metamorphoses and, together, they tell us a different story.

Berenice Abbott, Araki, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg, Helmut Newton, and Man Ray are all part of the game, each providing a “subject, a verb, or a compliment” and creating a new angle on the history of 20th century photography.”
(Anne Morin, Curator of the exhibition)

Exhibition organized by the City of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in partnership with DiChroma Photography (Madrid) and the Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York).

From Archive to History – Howard Greenberg Gallery

March 9 to June 16, 2019
Campredon art center
20, rue du Docteur Tallet
84820 Isle-sur-la-sorgue

More info on Campredon centre d’art and diCHromA Photography websites.