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MOTI HASSON GALLERY is very pleased to announce Carl Fischer’s first New York City solo-exhibition. The exhibition runs from NOVEMBER 6th to January 4th, 2009. Please join us for the ARTIST'S RECEPTION ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 FROM 6 TO 8 PM. The artist will be in attendance.
CARL FISCHER (American, 1924 - ) is a native New Yorker whose photographic career has always been anchored by his background in graphic design.
In the 1960’s and 70’s there was an explosion of creative activity in American advertising and editorial art and design and Carl Fischer was at the center of that movement. In this exhibition, limited to twelve portraits, his strength is in defining the personality of the sitter by the use of symbol and metaphor. The compositions are spare and his design background is evident in the insistent use of unadorned arrangements of form and space which gives the work a signature style.
Mr. Fischer’s portraits are attempts, as he has written, to fulfill the critic Hilton Kramer’s expectation of ‘the summary of an identity,’ and ‘a ‘gossip’ quotient in portraiture.’ Or as a reviewer once said of a memoir, “Famous people . . . looking and behaving exactly the way they are famous for looking and behaving.” Fischer even finds an American intersection between iconic Norman Rockwellian imagery and the obsession with the cult of celebrity, as in his spoofs of Lee Meredeth and Santa Claus.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is currently exhibiting five of his photographs from the iconic series of 1960’s Esquire covers.
Fischer’s photographs have been regularly exhibited in museums and galleries for many years, especially in Europe. As recognition for the importance of photography in art and design continue to grow, Fischer’s work has once again captured the interest of gallerists, collectors and museum directors here and abroad.
CARL FISCHER, photographer and graphic designer, was born in 1924 and raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from The Cooper Union and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London as a Fulbright Fellow, and began his career as an advertising agency art director in New York working with Paul Rand and Herb Lubalin. A self-taught photographer, he opened a studio in New York and produced work which won The Mark Twain Journalism Award, the Cleo Award, The Art Director’s Club gold and silver medals, and the Augustus St. Gaudens Medal. His portraits of Southern segregationist leaders were exhibited in The Museum of Modern Art’s “The Photo Essay,” and his work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Rose Art Museum, The International Center of Photography, The George Eastman House, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Opera Archives, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Monographs of his work have appeared in the United States, Europe and Japan and he is the author of “Photographs : 1958 to 1988” and “Portraits : 1953 to 1984".
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Thursday 10am-8pm
Friday and Saturday 10am-6pm
and by appointment.
For more information or to receive images, please contact the gallery at 212-268-4444 or email info@motihasson.com.