ARTISTS
Photographs from the Tom Birch Collection
26 Jan, 2019 - 02 Mar, 2019
The Tom Birch Collection tells us he collected fearlessly, always reaching for the next new beauty. In reviewing personal collections one becomes used to seeing the predictable pantomiming of the reassuring qualities of the museum鈥檚 canon. One sees collections based on themes that barely recognize the inner dynamic of individual artworks. Some collections reflect only the desire to soothe, never to challenge, when so much more can be experienced. It is clear Tom Birch was spurred onward by a willingness to explore the widest range of what photography had to offer. This manner of collecting nudges the idea of taste away from a fixed set of rules into an evolving narrative of personal discovery. For Tom, each photograph is a moment on a clock spinning backwards through his life, telling him of the places his consciousness occupied before and then after acquiring each picture.
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The Tom Birch Collection tells us he collected fearlessly, always reaching for the next new beauty. In reviewing personal collections one becomes used to seeing the predictable pantomiming of the reassuring qualities of the museum鈥檚 canon. One sees collections based on themes that barely recognize the inner dynamic of individual artworks. Some collections reflect only the desire to soothe, never to challenge, when so much more can be experienced. It is clear Tom Birch was spurred onward by a willingness to explore the widest range of what photography had to offer. This manner of collecting nudges the idea of taste away from a fixed set of rules into an evolving narrative of personal discovery. For Tom, each photograph is a moment on a clock spinning backwards through his life, telling him of the places his consciousness occupied before and then after acquiring each picture.
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- Danny Lyon
- Félix Bonfils
- George Tice
- Graciela Iturbide
- Helen Levitt
- Jacques-Henri Lartigue
- Jan Groover
- Joel-Peter Witkin
- Karl Blossfeldt
- Lee Friedlander
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Merry Alpern
- Ralph Steiner
- Robert Frank
- Ruth Thorne-Thomsen
- Steve Szabo
- William Dassonville
- Yevgeny Khaldei
- Zeke Berman
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