NEW YORK NEW YORK
In my in-depth essay for a catalogue of Ikona Gallery ,the first photography gallery to have opened in Venice more than 40 years ago, I explore the work of European and American photographers– Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbot, Andreas Feininger, René Burri, Ilse Bing, Francesca Woodman– who have circulated between Europe and New York, assimilating the aesthetics of both places and transforming them through their work:
“These exchanges between New York and Europe took place during a period that was extremely rich from a creative point of view, but complex and marked by upheaval: starting with the Spanish Civil War in 136, continuing through America’s Great Depression, it ends during McCarthyism and the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s.”
