While photography is being created today at breakneck pace the world over, Gallery 270’s AIPAD 2024 presentation will celebrate the stalwart practitioners of the medium dedicated to “slow photography”. They continue to create work accomplished with their own hands, carrying on the skilled traditions of creating precious objects by laboring sometimes hundreds of hours to craft a print imbued with an ephemeral beauty that can only be conveyed in a handmade photograph. We’ll exhibit works depicting the urban and social landscape of NY and NJ with each print on view handcrafted by the photographer who captured the image. Among the works on display will be those by Leonard Freed, Jill Freedman, Michael Massaia, Edward Steichen and George Tice.
This choice collection of handmade work defines Gallery 270’s raison d’être , to extol the virtues and beauty of photographs where the unique finished work conveys a sense of the skill, passion, sweat and blood that has been lavished on the paper. But this is not an esoteric vintage processes exercise for the sake of same. This is the sheer force of artistic drive, against logic, in pursuit of results and beauty achievable in no other way.
We’ll update you with all the details of our participation at AIPAD 2024.
