Photo Saint Germain 2018

Galerie Meyer presents

Edward Wallowitch

Galerie Meyer
17, rue des Beaux Arts
75006 Paris

Public Exhibition:
November 7 – 24, 2018

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday
2.30 pm – 6 pm

Saturday
11 am – 1 pm,
2.30 pm – 7 pm

Born in Philadelphia, both sides of his family descended
from late nineteenth century Lithuanian immigrants. Edward
Wallowitch pursued his talent for photography early and began
taking photos when he was just eleven.
At the age of eighteen, he was the youngest photographer
to be included in “The Family of Man”, Edward Steichen’s
legendary exhibition held in 1955 at The Museum of Modern
Art, meaning he was the youngest photographer ever to have
prints in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Two of
them were taken with a Brownie box reflex camera while he
was still at high school.
Wallowitch was a close friend of Andy Warhol in the 1950s
and 60s in New York. By then he had moved from Philadelphia
to Manhattan and had become an integral part of the
Greenwich Village bohemia, alongside his brother John, and
sister Anna Mae. Wallowitch produced a kind of poetic street
photography with strong sensibility, showing a tender eye
for both composition and texture. He spent a lot of his time
photographing children and teenagers.
Many of Wallowitch’s pictures served as source material for
Andy Warhol’s drawings. He died at the age of 48, cause of
death unknown.