At the end of a whirlwind day in Cambridge and Framingham (client visit), Karen and I barely made it to an opening for a show of black and white photographs by Frank Tadley of the Community Garden at Edgerton Park (New Haven CT) (more here about the park) and color drawings of flowers and plants by his sister Betty. The art was great and we caught up with a number of friends. Frank has the whole series on display at his website.
We have been an admirer of the website The 12534 ever since we discovered that this site had the good sense to add Mr. Wonderful’s World to its list of “notable blogs”. Flattery does get you somewhere in these parts. Despite the pleasant ego inflation, it remained a mystery here at 114 Warren as to the identity of the diligent and discerning author of The 12534. Tonight, in the midst of Hudson’s Winter Walk hoopla, a large ginger bread man walked into the Davis Orton Gallery accompanied by a handler.
He claims to be the web author of The 12534. But how are we to know that this is true? The only bit of wit that passed his lips was a retort on spying our platter of ginger snaps, “Oh, I can’t eat any of those, that would be canibalism.”
We were lucky enough to get Mr. Ginger Bread Man to pose with Ms. Wonderful.
April 4, 2005
a site/non-site installation by Karen Davis and John Tagiuri CAC Gallery exhibition, March 17 – April 22, 2005 Opening Reception: Monday, April 4, 2005, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Go to the Cambridge Arts Council website (opens in new window).
Some abstract works by KCD.
Some earlier B&W works by KCD.
One of John Tugiuri’s pieces
Addison Gallery Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Two rooms filled with black and white pictures predominantly from the 1930′s thru the 1950′s. A lesser known street photographer, Louis Faurer, like Robert Frank and others, produced many of the photographic images that form the visual backdrop to our mind map of those times. Faurer’s work was completley unknown to me until this visit. The work stands on its own both from a content and technical perspective.
Louis Faurer, The Accident, Lexington Avenue, New York City, 1952, gelatin silver print, courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(This photo is actually the result of an error. It is a double exposure. The chalk outline on the street is an earlier picture of an accident with the chilled boy taken later.)
(The title for this picture on the gallery’s web site is incorrect. Unfortunately I do not have the correct information. Probably from the 1930′s in New York City. One of many photos Faurer took of beggars, indigents, and others down on their luck)
(both pictures borrowed from the Addison Gallery web site without permission)