Daniel / Oliver is pleased to exhibit “Joanne Mulberg: Fire Island” as a centerpiece of the gallery’s booth at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD. Between the years of 1979 and 1986, American photographer Joanne Mulberg (b. 1954) ventured to Fire Island each summer to photograph the communities of the Pines and Cherry Grove, as part of her larger body of work documenting the physical and cultural landscape of Long Island.
From scenes of the extravagant “Miss Fire Island'' pageant and its fabulous participants to quiet portraits of beach-goers lazing in the afternoon light, Mullburg’s photographs capture the decadence, defiance and joy of the Fire Island community, while maintaining the straightforward aesthetics that defined the New Color movement. At the time, Mulberg was working as a color printer for Joel Meyerowitz, her former instructor at Cooper Union, who wrote that her work “carries a variety of impulses densely pressed into the slenderness of the photograph. The love of light, the immediacy of a moment, the sudden spirit of humor and withal, a grace that does not injure or deform that which she sees.”
On view will be a number of vintage works, many of which have not been shown publicly for over twenty years. Also available will be a selection of editioned archival pigment prints, published by the gallery. Please inquire for other available works by Mulberg.
Additionally, the gallery will present a selection of photographs centered around ideas of an “Altered Landscape.” These images depict terrains which have been changed by time and
and nature, or affected by the hand of man. Many of the photographs are physically altered as well, such as Chris McCaw’s Sunburn GSP #65 in which the print was uniquely scorched during the hours-long exposure of the Sun’s moving path; Alison Rossiter’s Darko Rough, a camera-less photograph evoking notions of a traditional landscape; and the hand-painted photographs in 1920s album which sequentially document the effects of fireproof lumber.