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A SENSE OF PLACE
JULY 1, 2013 – MAY 1, 2014
PIER 24 PHOTOGRAPHY Pier 24 Photography is a venue in which photographers, educators, collectors, and curators share photography and photographic ideas with the community. Our aim is to provide an environment for the experience and quiet contemplation of photography. In addition to presenting ongoing exhibitions, Pier 24 houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation.
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The Stour from Dead Man's Bridge, near Flatford, Winter
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America by Car
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Edward Burtynsky Jan De Cock Thomas Demand Andreas Gursky Lucia Koch Richard Misrach Cinthya Soto
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House (video)
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Robert Adams Uta Barth Moyra Davey Thomas Demand Todd Hido Veronika Kellndorfer Stephen Shore Wolfgang Tillmans Photographer Unknown
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In front of a nightclub
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Blue Line of Woods
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Richard Learoyd, The Stour from Dead Man’s Bridge, near Flatford, Winter, 2013 José Manuel Fors, Havana Circle, 2012
A SENSE OF PLACE Today, like never before, pictures are inescapable, blanketing every facet of dayto-day life, from advertisements and billboards to social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. Because our relationship to photography is both personal and universal, this medium more than any other defines how we view and understand the world. For its fifth exhibition, Pier 24 Photography presents A Sense of Place, an exploration of how photographs shape our perceptions of our surroundings. Together, the exhibited works suggest how we see through the lens of our own experience, our impressions shaped by emotional responses based in a felt connection between one’s own life and the pictured subject. Approaching the grand scale historically reserved for landscape paintings, photographs like Andreas Gurksy’s F1 Pit Stop III (Rm 04), Thomas Demand’s Grotto (Rm 10), and Jeff Wall’s In front of a nightclub (Rm 18) immerse the viewer in the pictured environment. Works from Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places (Rm 20) recall the spirit of anytown USA. In an adjacent gallery, Paul Graham’s The Present (Rm 09) captures continuous moments in the Manhattan landscape from various perspectives, mimicking how the eye shifts focus to pinpoint different details unfolding in one’s surroundings. Subjects similar to those considered by Shore and Graham are recognizable in Lee Friedlander’s America by Car (Rm 15), a series of photographs documenting both the everyday and specific eccentricities in the United States—all of them captured from the confines of his car. Unconventional technical processes and methods of display bring fresh perspectives on the commonplace. Referencing one of the oldest forms of photographic printing, Eric William Carroll’s diazotypes (Rm 08)—a form similar to blueprints—are produced at an unprecedented scale, creating an immersive experience of being in the woods. When photographing familiar Bay Area terrain, John Chiara’s (Rm 11) distinctive camera obscura process transforms images into otherworldly scenes. To create the installation 24 HRS in Photos, Erik Kessels (Rm 17) downloaded and printed every picture uploaded to Flickr during a 24-hour period, allowing the viewer to both visually and physically experience the overwhelming number of photographs shared online. Works drawn from the Sack Photographic Trust (Rms 12-14)—primarily from the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century—reflect one collector’s sense of place. These three galleries present historical photographs in contemporary installations focusing on traditional themes that are well represented in the collection. Taken as a whole, the pictures assembled in A Sense of Place demonstrate what photography does best, drawing our attention to the everyday—and what we might otherwise bypass—and inspiring us to take another, closer look.
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Richard Learoyd, The Stour from Dead Man’s Bridge, near Flatford, Winter, 2013
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“I often place camera lenses in the center of my pieces as if all the photography of that universe was bursting out of the camera.” José Manuel Fors, 2012
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“First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don’t see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place – not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.” William Carlos Williams
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John Chiara, Embarcadero at Interstate 80, 2013
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Andreas Gursky, F1 Pit Stop III, 2007
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SCALE AND SPACE Unprecedented in scale for photography, the eight works in this gallery demonstrate the ways that technology has altered the medium over the past several decades. While exploring wide-ranging subject matter, these contemporary color photographs share a scale historically reserved for landscape painting. Each work immerses the viewer in an expansive environment, physically placing us within the space of the photograph, sparking considerations of how images affect our perceptions of place.
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Cinthya Soto, Tramo el Saborcito, 2005
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Jan De Cock, Denkmal 9, Henry Van de Velde Universiteitsbibliotheek, Rozier 9, Gent, 2004
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Richard Misrach, Desert Fire #43, 1983
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Edward Burtynsky, SOCAR Oil Fields #1a and #1b, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006
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Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent, 1999
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Thomas Demand, Kabine, 2002
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Doug Aitken, House, 2010 (video)
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Robert Adams Newly Occupied Tract Houses, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968
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“The form the photographer records, though discovered in a split second of literal fact, is different because it implies an order beyond itself, a landscape into which all fragments, no matter how imperfect, fit perfectly.” Robert Adams, 2009
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“My work in photography all goes back to the basic struggle of wanting to capture and hold on to moments while trying to be present in the experience at the same time.� Eric William Carroll, 2013
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Paul Graham, Broadway, 3rd June 2010, 2.10.12 p.m., 2012
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“You don’t need a multiplicity of images. You show what happens, then what happens next. And so you shift your focus. You don’t need to show 10 other moments, you’ve implied that it’s a continuum and what you thought mattered shifts quickly and transforms itself into another thing that matters for that instant.” Paul Graham, 2012
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“When I look very carefully around me, while also being completely aware of my own photographic process, I can catch a glimpse of where to aim the lens. My photographs are made from exposures that take place inside my camera. I think of each photograph as a document of an event, one that happens over a long exposure time. With each photographic event, I gain a deeper understanding of the malleability of this process within its fixed parameters. The photographs record this experience and hopefully transmit a progression of what I am seeing.� John Chiara, 2013
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Walker Evans, South Street, New York City, 1934
Selections from the Collection of Paul Sack & the Sack Photographic Trust Each of the three galleries in this exhibition, organized by Pier 24 Photography, identifies a different thematic thread within the Sack Collection: Horizons, Dwellings, and The City. Although many of the featured pictures are familiar, they have not been assembled in this manner before. This presentation encourages us to examine them— and the Collection more broadly—in very new ways. The photographs in the first room, organized around the theme Horizons, have been selected for the graceful continuous line that delineates the point where the earth ends and the sky begins. A great deal of care has been taken to match up the horizon lines in these works and thereby visually unite the pictured sites, which range from Europe and the Middle East to the United States. The specific location of these pictures is not the first thing we notice; what is most striking is the broad horizon and expanse of sky. After viewing the continuous horizon presented jointly by these pictures, we move close and examine each of them intimately. We look into the lovely picture by Roger Fenton (1819–1869) and see a man fishing on the banks of the Wye River; we see the particular barrenness, the beautiful emptiness, of the desert around the Second Pyramid in Frith’s picture from Egypt; we see the dense forest and the rushing Columbia River in Watkins’s depiction of Rooster Rock. Many of these pictures were the first photographs ever made of their subjects; all of them reflect a desire to inform and excite the viewer by representing what these far-flung places looked like. The pictures in the second gallery form a much sparser display. Most of them represent dwellings in villages or country homes that are graced and protected by trees. In this room there is a sense of the pleasure and gracefulness of country life. There is a long tradition of idealizing such settings in England. Henry White’s (1819–1902) couple at the door of their cottage is paired here with its American version: David W. Butterfield’s (1844–1933) picture of a house and barn in a New England village, the sidewalk lined by a white picket fence. Such visions of harmonious domestic life are echoed in Edward Weston’s (1886–1958) picture of a working farm surrounded by trees and the view of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill by Johan Hagemeyer (1884–1962). Though it shows a city, Hagemeyer’s beautiful Pictorialist photograph depicts a very harmonious, atmospheric, and graceful landscape, full of trees and gentle breezes. The last room, representing The City, is filled with the energy and aspiration we commonly ascribe to urban life. It is not surprising that most of the pictures in this room were made in the twentieth century. Hung together in an arrangement that emphasizes the dynamism and vitality we appreciate in cities, they show the city as a living entity in itself—we see forests of chimneys, mountains of walls, curtains of windows. All of these elements, and more, are present in this room. In most of the pictures on display there are no people at all, and when people are present they are most often fragmentary (as in Lisette Model’s [1901–1983] picture of a storefront reflection), or they are dwarfed by towers or walls (as in Bill Brandt’s [1904–1983] nighttime photograph). There are also the sublime renderings of the city by the brilliant Eugène Atget (1857–1927), who saw his beloved Paris as the epitome of a long history and culture, and depicted it most often without the people that inhabited it, indicating their presence through other markers, such as the worn stones of streets and buildings. The early morning fog filling Atget’s empty streets is also heavy with meaning, evoking the weight of the city’s rich history as well as the inevitability of change. Walker Evans’s (1903–1975) atmospheric early picture of a dark Manhattan skyline shows both his indebtedness to Atget, his acknowledged predecessor, and his need to see beyond the clarity and order of twentieth-century artistic Modernism into a more complex modern reality. Sandra S. Phillips, 2013
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Francis Frith, Pyramids of El-Geezah from Southwest, 1858 Henry Faul, Pike's Peak, Judd Mine, Colorado Territory, 1861 George Barnard, Defences of the Etawah Bridge, ca. 1864–65 John Beasley Greene, Landscape with Palm Trees along the Nile, ca. 1853–54 Joseph Vicomte Vigier, Cauterets. Vue des bains de la Railliere, 1853 Félix Teynard, Nubie-Amadah-Vue générale des ruines, 1853–54 Andrew Joseph Russell, Echo City, looking up Weber River, ca. 1868 Carleton E. Watkins, Sunset Hill, Dalles City, Oregon, 1867 George Barnard, Destruction of Hood’s Ordinance Train and Ruins of Rolling Mill, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864
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Frank Jay Haynes, Granite Silver Mine, Montana Territory, 1887 Roger Fenton, Lindisfarne Abbey, ca. 1855 John K. Hillers, Hopi Pueblos of Mishongnovi and Shipaulovi, Arizona, ca. 1879 Carleton E. Watkins, The Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point, 1880s John Beasley Greene, Untitled [Constantine II], 1855 Roger Fenton, On the Wye, ca. 1855 Louis De Clercq, Tour Antonia et environs (Tower of Antonia and Surroundings), 1859 J. F. Ryder, Untitled [Train Tracks], 1862 Roger Fenton, Kakikoi, from Camp of Horse Artillery, 1856 Maxime Du Camp, Nubie, Forteresse d’Ibrym, 1850 Alexander Gardner, View from Fort Laramie, 1868
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“Friedlander’s road pictures, taken over the past decade, are about three things central to his life: the American people, the landscape, and photography. He uses his rental car as a deceptively simple framing device, borrowing the built-in borders of its rear-view and side-view mirrors, windshield, and side windows. The result is a collection of brilliant observations about American people and places, their idiosyncrasies, eccentricities, and obsessions, and his love of all.” Elisabeth Biondi, 2010
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HOME While the memories and experiences that shape our understanding of home are highly personal, we share a collective appreciation of this place and the objects that occupy it. The nine photographers in this gallery present different interpretations of home, offering varied perspectives on what defines a domestic setting. Together, these photographs offer vignettes of a home that is not our own, but nevertheless elicit a universal familiarity.
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“Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation. Able to be instantly disseminated around the globe, a digital snapshot initially functions as a message in the present (‘Hey, I’m here right now, looking at this’) rather than only as a record of some past moment. This kind of photograph is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.” Geoffrey Batchen, 2013
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“The force of the flames burning up the vast grassland was far stronger than I had imagined. Witnessing the landscape completely burnt to pitch black, I was seized by the illusion that I myself had burned up. It was a refreshing sensation, as if the self I had been, up until that time, was no longer. I had been reborn anew.� Rinko Kawauchi, 2013
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Pier 24 Photography would like to acknowledge the following individuals and lenders for their assistance in making this exhibition possible. 303 Gallery Jeroen Bijl Eric William Carroll John Chiara Doris Fisher Randi and Bob Fisher Jeffrey Fraenkel Fraenkel Gallery Lee Friedlander Paul Graham Howard Greenberg Gallery Christopher Grimes Gallery Murray Guy Gallery Haines Gallery Cindy Herron Todd Hido Rinko Kawauchi Erik Kessels Lucia Koch Richard Learoyd Richard Misrach Asako Narahashi Abner Nolan Pace/MacGill Gallery Gina and Stuart Peterson Sandra S. Phillips Regen Projects Rose Gallery Andrea Rosen Gallery Paul Sack Sack Photographic Trust for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Stephen Shore Wolfgang Tillmans
Photography Credits Richard Learoyd: © Richard Learoyd, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco / Andreas Gursky: © Andreas Gursky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin London / Richard Misrach: © Richard Misrach, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco / Thomas Demand: © Thomas Demand, Courtesy VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Lucia Koch: © Lucia Koch, Courtesy the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica / Doug Aitken: © Doug Aitken, Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York / Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich / Victoria Miro Gallery, London / Regen Projects, Los Angeles / Robert Adams: © Robert Adams, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco / Todd Hido: © Todd Hido, Courtesy Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco / Eric William Carroll: © Eric William Carroll, Courtesy the artist / Paul Graham: © Paul Graham, Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York / Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York / Thomas Demand: © Thomas Demand, Courtesy VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / John Chiara: © John Chiara, Courtesy the artist / Lee Friedlander: © Lee Friedlander, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco / Uta Barth: © Uta Barth, Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Stephen Shore: © Stephen Shore, Courtesy the artist / 303 Gallery, New York / Robert Adams: © Robert Adams, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco / Jeff Wall: © Jeff Wall, Courtesy the artist / Rinko Kawauchi: © Rinko Kawauchi, Courtesy Rose Gallery, Santa Monica / Asako Narahashi: © Asako Narahashi, Courtesy Rose Gallery, Santa Monica / Stephen Shore: © Stephen Shore, Courtesy the artist / 303 Gallery, New York
Editor: Seth Curcio Editorial Associate: Allie Haeusslein Copy Editor: Amanda Glesmann Design: Nate Phelps Installation Photography: Charles Villyard Print Management: Sprinkle Media This publication would not have been possible without the generous contributions of the Pier 24 Photography volunteer and internship team.
ISBN: 978-0-9839917-3-1 Printed in the United States ©2013 Pier 24 Photography All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher / copyright holders. Pier 24 The Embarcadero San Francisco, CA 94105 p. 415.512.7424 f. 415.512.7456 e. info@pier24.org
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