Born in New York in 1949, Stanley Greene, a former member of the Black Panthers, studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. The city, then the stronghold of the new underground punk scene, became his first love. The Western Front, his earliest personal diary, is composed of sequences of images that follow one another frenetically, echoing the feelings of urgency experienced by the anarchic youth.
To protect himself from self-destructive tendencies, Greene left San Francisco in the mid-eighties for New York before moving to Paris. A fashion photographer at first, he turned to conflict photography in 1989, after he immortalized the fall of the Berlin Wall with his now famous shot “Kisses to All, Berlin Wall”.
The exhibition Hidden Scars is a retrospective constructed from a selection of six essays. Its aim is to retrace the path, at times treacherous, followed by the American photographer. The exhibition at the Polka Galerie shows important pieces of his exceptional production, from the first photos he took in San Francisco to the color images shot in Chechnya in late 2013.
EXHIBITION
Hidden Scars
March 22 – May 24 2014
Polka Galerie
Cour de Venise
12, rue Saint-Gilles
75003 Paris
France
