On May 9, 2008, Ken Karlewicz and 30 other photographers spent one day capturing digital images along Route 59 in Rockland County, New

York. The result is a remarkable photographic distillation of a single day in the life of a diverse fifteen mile stretch of America.

Exhibition will include over seventy large scale photographs documenting the 24 hour encounter

May 9th thru June 6th

Gallery Hours: Friday 4-8 Saturday 2-4 Sunday 1-4

Special Preview – GAGA Arts Festival – May 2 and 3 – 11AM to 6PM

Ken Karlewicz

James Taylor

(work by Steve Grosmark’s work on this project is visable at: http://www.g-mark.com/59×59)

On Curated by Ken Karlewicz
Ken Karlewicz and 30 other photographers captured digital images on May 9th ,2008 along Route 59 in Rockland County, New York. The result is a remarkable photographic distillation of a single day in the life of a diverse fifteen mile stretch of America. Exhibition will include over fifty large scale photographs documenting the 24 hour encounter.Ken Karlewicz and 30 other photographers spent one day capturing digital images along Route 59 in Rockland County, New York. The result is a remarkable photographic distillation of a single day in the life of a diverse fifteen mile stretch of America.

Exhibition will include over seventy large scale photographs documenting the 24 hour encounter.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance – Lewis Wickes Hine

Typical Characteristics of Hine’s Photographs from the ‘20’s and 30’s:

Single figures
Engaged in a work activity
Photo includes both the individual and the machinery/tools of him trade
The gesture, pose and facial expression demonstrate pride and dignity

Resources used:
www.masters-of-photography.com

www.leegallery.com/hine.html

www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html

In my series I will continue to incorporate single figures, engaged in a work activity involving machinery. I will explore varying Hine’s style in the following ways:

1. Construction workers whose gesture, pose and expression demonstrate a LACK of pride and dignity.

2. Rather than construction workers, I will vary Hine’s style by depicting workers engaged with technology (i.e. computer techs, Geek Squad workers or Apple Store genius bar workers). I will preserve that look of pride/ ‘stregnth’)

3. Combining 1 and 2, showing how the predominance of technology as the major work form has created a lack of outward pride and dignity.

Tanyth Berkeley is a portrait photographer whose work is currently on display at the DazigerProjects on West 24th Street. The display features a series on her muse: Grace. She has spent the better part of the past year studying her and documenting her personal evolution . Her approach in finding the beauty in those that others may have difficulty looking at remind me of the works of Diane Arbus.