Flesh Tones

Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce 'Flesh Tones : 100 Years of the Nude', on view from March 7 through April 19, 2003. The exhibition will be curated by Vince Aletti, art editor and photography critic of 'The Village Voice'. A reception will be held on Friday, March 7 from 6-8pm. No reservations are required.

'Flesh Tones : 100 Years of the Nude' surveys the landscape of the body as seen by a diverse selection of the twentieth century's most influential photographers, including Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Ellen Auerbach, Richard Avedon, Hans Bellmer, Ruth Bernhard, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Erwin Blumenfeld, Guy Bourdin, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Annie Brigman, Wynn Bullock, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, Harry Callahan, Elinor Carucci, Chuck Close, Imogen Cunningham, John Dugdale, Lee Friedlander, Sally Gall, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Forman Hanna, Horst P. Horst, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, Bill Jacobson, Andre Kertesz, Justin Kurland, Annie Leibovitz, Herbert List, George Platt Lynes, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Andrea Modica, Artur Nikodem, Nicholas Nixon, John O'Reilly, Roger Parry, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Paolo Roversi, F. Roh, Lucas Samaras, Gary Schneider, Gerald Slota, Gary Snyder, Michael Spano, Eduard J. Steichen, Sasha Stone, Larry Sultan, Raymond Voinquel, Weegee, Carrie Mae Weems, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Minor White, Gary Winogrand, and Francesca Woodman.

The nude is one of photography's most enduring, intriguing, and controversial subjects. It continues to captivate artists and audiences alike due to the infinite ways in which it can be depicted. The focus of this exhibition is on the classic nude in addition to contemporary interpretations that either continue or subvert this tradition.

One hundred years of artistic endeavor are represented in a diverse selection of photographs depicting the male and female form. The artists included in the exhibition possess disparate interests and influences, yet they all use the nude as a vessel through which they can address a multitude of issues. The breadth of the human condition is visible in the intersecting lines, planes, and curves of our flesh : strength and frailty, youth and age, joy and sadness, attraction and repulsion, sexuality and mortality. Whether capturing their subjects in intimate, unguarded moments, or staging elaborate theatrical dramas around them, these artists use that which is common to us all - the human body - to expose what lies beneath the surface.

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Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude
Kurator: Vince Aletti

mit Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Ellen Auerbach, Richard Avedon, Hans Bellmer, Ruth Bernhard, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Erwin Blumenfeld, Guy Bourdin, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Annie Brigman, Wynn Bullock, Debbie Fleming Caffrey, Harry Callahan, Elinor Carucci, Chuck Close, Imogen Cunningham, John Dugdale, Lee Friedlander, Sally Gall, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Forman Hanna, Horst P. Horst, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, Bill Jacobson, André Kertész, Justine Kurland, Annie Leibovitz, Herbert List, George Platt Lynes, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Andrea Modica, Artur Nikodem, Nicholas Nixon, John O´Reilly, Roger Parry, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Paolo Roversi, F. Roh, Lucas Samaras, Gary Schneider, Gerald Slota, Gary Snyder, Michael Spano, Edward Steichen, Sasha Stone, Larry Sultan, Raymond Voinquel, Weegee, Carrie Mae Weems, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Minor White, Garry Winogrand, Francesca Woodman