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STEPHEN PERLOFF, “UNSEEN COLOR, PART II: EAST AND WEST”
AT THE LIGHT ROOM GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA
MAY 4 – JUNE 16, 2013
The Light Room Gallery
2024 Wallace Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
215/765-0262, www.thelightroom.org
Saturday 12–4 p.m., and by appointment
Opening reception, Saturday, May 4, 2–6 p.m.
Closing reception, Sunday, June 16, 2–6 p.m.,
artist’s talk at 4 p.m.
Stephen Perloff: Green Building, 1978
Since he received his Davy Crockett camera at the age of eight, Stephen Perloff had always exhibited his work in black-and-white — until March 2012 when his first color show opened at The Light Room Gallery in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer called “Unseen Color, Part I” “a knockout of a show.”
Perloff’s new show, “Unseen Color, Part II: East and West,” opening at The Light Room Gallery on May 4 and running through June 16, will feature images from the Far East from 1977 and from the American West in 1978. As in Perloff’s inaugural color show, the exhibited work will range from close-up details to expansive landscapes, from temples in Bangkok to vernacular American architecture, and will chronicle his personal reactions to these two contrasting cultures.
Stephen Perloff: Tiger Balm Garden, Hong Kong, 1977
Stephen Perloff has had a lengthy career that has included studies of the built environment of Philadelphia; a rephotographic project in the city (“Philadelphia Past and Present”); images made in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park; a multi-year study of the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which famously had a coal mine fire burning beneath it; and a moving series of the last seven months of his father’s life titled “Dying at Home.” He has also made portraits of photographers André Kertész, W. Eugene Smith, and Emmet Gowin, monologist and actor Spalding Gray, feminist Kate Millett, poet Elizabeth Alexander — who read at President Obama's first inauguration, and dancer Lucas Hoving, among others.
Perloff often shot color along with black-and-white, but he never exhibited this work until recently. With the advent of digital technologies, Perloff revisited this work, scanned the Kodachrome slides, and made new digital prints. “I always knew there were wonderful images among my color work,” Perloff recalls, “but after looking at them a couple of times and maybe having a slide show once in a while for a couple of friends, the work went into storage and was somewhat forgotten. I realized that with a high-quality scanner and printer I could bring these images back to life and the results have been everything I imagined.”
Perloff’s color work goes back to 1966, with images made in Philadelphia, at the West Virginia State Fair in 1978, on his trips abroad, and especially to the Far East in 1977 and Romania in 1982, as well as several trips cross country in the 1970s. The new exhibit of “Unseen Color, Part II: East and West” suggests that the photographer’s exploration of color work has yielded a rich trove of images for consideration.
Images available upon request. Contact Stephen Perloff, 215/891-0214, sperloff@photoreview.org.
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