Featuring Photographs by: Berenice Abbott, Tim Barnwell, John Guttman & Richard Pare

A Time and Place… a group exhibition featuring four recognized artists whose work spans the 20th and 21st Centuries.
While each photographer’s images reflect a period in history, their continued relevance defies a time stamp.

Richard Pare’s prints from recent major museum exhibitions in London, Berlin and New York reveal designs still influencing contemporary art and architectural concepts. Tim Barnwell’s compelling photographs of the places and people of Appalachia present an important element of the American cultural heritage. Arriving in his new country to escape political tyranny gripping Europe, John Gutmann’s pictures show his intrigue with America amplified by his sense for design and composition. Berenice Abbott’s classic images in the Changing New York series were published in 1939, ten years after her return from France. Documenting Science’s subject and design elements are as timeless as science itself.

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Berenice Abbott

Born just before the turn of the century in Ohio, Berenice Abbott’s formative years as an artist were spent in Paris.

Her classic images in the Changing New York series were published in 1939, ten years after her return from France. It provides a comprehensive picture of the city, much as Eugene Atget had done with his monumental work on Paris.

The subjects of other series… on Portraits, The American Scene and Science… illustrate her diverse interests and capabilities.

Documenting Science was a partnership with MIT for use in school textbooks. It’s subject and design elements are as timeless as nature and science themselves, being exhibited in Paris, Toronto and New York during 2012.

More information on Berenice Abbott can be found on her Artist Page

Tim Barnwell

Barnwell’s compelling photographs of the places and people of Appalachia present an important element of the American cultural heritage.

Based in Asheville, North Carolina, he has spent over 35 years as a professional photographer and instructor-including eight years directing the Appalachian Photographic Workshops with artists such as Cole Weston and George Tice.

His images have been presented in magazines ranging from Time and Newsweek to Travel South and National Parks. They are included in numerous museum and private collections including; Metropolitan Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, the Newark Museum of Art. His work is the subject of three books.

More information on Tim Barnwell can be found on his Artist Page

John Gutmann

John Gutmann studied painting in his native Germany under Otto Mueller. He continued painting even after starting a new career as a photographer and worked as a college professor from 1938 to 1973 in San Francisco.

As the title of Jane Levy Reed’s film on his life, My Eyes Were Fresh, suggests, Gutmann saw much of his new country as an intriguing mix of new cultural experiences.

Among these, was America’s fascination with the automobile. In the auto, signage, portraits of diverse people in everyday activities and the urban landscape he captured much of the distinctive nature of the period.

His pictures show an enduring artistic sense for design-amplified by his compositional eye. This was acknowledged by a Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 1978. His work has been recognized in books, as well as in museum collections such as those at San Francisco MoMA and the Amon Carter Museum.

More information on John Gutmann can be found on his Artist Page

Richard Pare

Richard Pare, born in England in 1948, studied photography and graphic design there as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was founding curator of the photographic collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Prints from his MoMA exhibition, The Lost Vanguard, have recently been on display at the London’s Royal Academy of Art, Martin Gropius Bau, in Berlin, as well as in Madrid and Barcelona.

This extensive examination of 1920’s Soviet Modernist Architecture reveals designs still influencing contemporary art and architectural concepts.

In addition to numerous exhibitions, his publications include: Court House: A Photographic Document; Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939; and The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932.

More information on Richard Pare can be found on his Artist Page