Peter Sekaer . . . In Context – Collector’s Gallery

Featuring the exceptional photography of Peter Sekaer                                                     in the context of other notable artists of the period.

Berenice Abbott            Arnold Newman          Alexander Rodchenko
Dorothea Lange             John Gutmann            Rondal Partridge

Sekaer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1901, immigrated to the United States in 1918. After successfully operating a printing business in New York City producing posters, advertisements and window displays, he enrolled in the Art Students League in 1929 to study painting.

By 1934 Sekaer had left painting behind to study photography with Berenice Abbott. Through his friendship with Walker Evans he secured contracts from 1936 to 1943 to work on assignment as a photographer for various government agencies.

“Sekaer’s photographs show an outsider’s objectivity and detachment coupled with an insider’s commitment and concern for the subject.”
Julian Cox, Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art

The exhibition was organized to compliment the High Museum of Art’s exhibition, Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer.

A Review on Arts Critic ATL can be read HERE.

The New York Times review (6/3/10) of the High Museum exhibition can be read HERE.

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