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.

Public Opening:
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 12 am to 8 pm
Friday, November 9, 2018, 12 am to 8 pm
Saturday, November 10, 2018, 12 am to 8 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2018, 12 am to 7 pm

 

Our presentation at Paris Photo 2018 will consist of three special exhibitions.

We are delighted to present a group of Emile Zola’s portraits of his son Jacques. These beautiful prints, recently acquired from his grandson’s estate, will be shown in public for the first time. Zola’s photographs demonstrate a remarkable technical ability as well as a sensitivity to the character and mood of his subjects. The same attention to detail evident in his novels is visible in Zola’s portraits of his son, which were taken around the time of the famous Dreyfus Affair at the end of the 19th century.

A small catalogue featuring texts by Carrie Foulkes and Lindsey Stewart is being published to accompany this presentation.

Rather than thinking of Zola as a novelist who took pictures, we may instead come to view him as an artist who both wrote and made photographs.

We will show a selection of pictures focussing on outstanding female photographers such as the pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke‑White. These works will be complemented by portraits of larger‑than-life women such as: Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein and
Carrie Nation alongside other famous or infamous women.

Visitors familiar with our programme will be pleased to find a vintage group of impressive copy prints of 1946 atomic tests (Bikini Atoll). This process of making enlargements from pictures taken of pictures here enhances the defects of the earlier prints and imbues these large prints with a sense of urgency and magnetism. We will also show newly‑discovered colour pictures (dye transfer and Ansco film) of 1950s tests and crisp Apollo mission photos on the 50th anniversary of the first crewed mission (Apollo 7, 1968).