“I wanted to see inside and outside at the same time,” wrote Edward Hopper in the early 1960s. More than a declaration of intent, this statement summarized the aim of his entire body of work, and it also applies to New York photographer Gail-Albert Halaban.
At the border between art and voyeurism, the photographer sees through her window, in this constant back-and-forth between the interior and exterior, the desire to make contact with her subjects, seeking comfort, communion, an echo to her solitude, in the illuminated rectangles suspended in the night.
Photographing always from above, Halaban photographs banality, rescuing from oblivion the fleeting gestures of the everyday.
In order to complete her first series, shot in 2009 in New York, she contacted people via social networks in order to explain her project and to obtain their permission to photograph them in their homes.
Read the full article in the French version of L’Oeil.
REPRESENTATION
EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY
http://www.houkgallery.com
LIVRE
Vis à Vis
Un livre de Gail Albert Halaban
Introduction de Cathy Rémy
Préface de Christian Caujolle
Editions de La Martinière
SIGNATURE
Gail Albert Halaban will sign her book during Paris Photo at:
Galerie Edwynn houk le samedi 15/11 à 15h30
Galerie Esther Woederhoff le dimanche 16/11 à 14h
NEWS
-Meeting with the photographer ar the bookshop LE 29 (Paris 10e) on November 18th 2014
-Exhibition at Esther Woederhoff Gallery in February-March 2015
CONTRIBUTOR
Severine Morel
[email protected]
http://blinks.photography
