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Paul McDonough

New York City, 1968 -1972

September 20 to November 10

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Images shown on the site are just a small sample of works available by the artists.

New York City, 1968-1972

Portrait of Woman with Hat, NYC, 1968

Portrait of Man Looking Up, NYC, 1968

5th Avenue Parade, Group of Men and Boy, NYC, 1969

Women Holding Hands, NYC, 1970

Two Business Men Crossing Street, NYC, 1970

Asian Girl with Hand to Hair, NYC, 1968

Blind Man, Old Woman, Hari Krishnas, NYC, 1972

Woman in Long Coat, NYC, 1970

Portrait of a Man in Hat, NYC, 1969

Portrait of Man with Sideburns, NYC, 1968

Bryant Park Concert, NYC, 1970

Central Park, Couple Kissing, NYC, 1972

Central Park, Girl with Nanny and Doll, NYC, 1972

Central Park, People with Dogs at Lake's Edge, NYC, 1972

Central Park, Girl With White Boots, NYC, 1971

Kids with Cat, NYC, 1969

Central Park, Group with Frisbee and Pup, NYC, 1969

Central Park, Spring, NYC, 1972

Pregnant Woman Crossing 85th Street, NYC, 1969

Small Person with Bookbag, NYC, 1968

Priest with Dark Glasses, NYC, 1970

Woman in Wheelchair, NYC, 1969

Theater Entrance, NYC, 1969

Woman with Umbrella, NYC, 1969

Woman in Steam, NYC, 1969 by Paul McDonough

Man with Cigar, NYC, 1969

Parade, People on Ladder, NYC, 1970

Press Release

September 7, 2007
For Immediate Release:

Sasha Wolf Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new gallery in Tribeca. Sasha Wolf Gallery, specializes in contemporary fine art photography. For the past four years Sasha Wolf has represented artists as a private dealer, exhibited photography in her private gallery and curated shows at other New York galleries. During its inaugural season Sasha Wolf Gallery will feature solo exhibitions of artists represented by the gallery in addition to curated group shows. The gallery exclusively represents the work of artists: Alan Chin, Thomas Holton, Peter Kayafas, Pablo Lopez, Paul McDonough and Yola Monakhov.

Inaugural exhibition
Paul McDonough, New York City 1968-1972, black and white photographs
September 20, 2007 – November 10, 2007
The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 20th with a reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Paul McDonough arrived in New York City in 1967 with a 35mm camera and an entrée, through childhood friend Tod Papageorge, into the photography workshops and social networks of street photographer Garry Winogrand. Emerging from an early career as a studio easel painter, McDonough found photographing on the streets of New York liberating: “it satisfied my sketching impulses… I learned to carry a camera everywhere, all the time, loaded with 400-speed film.”

In the late 1960s the city had a feeling of ‘improv’ theater. The social climate had changed dramatically, people were acting and dressing more outrageously, and in the streets there were frequent anti-war and anti-establishment demonstrations. For the artist, subject matter was everywhere. But, according to McDonough “…the event itself, I came to learn, didn’t have to be dramatic; the drama could consist of something as simple as two people making eye contact. Whatever sense or suggestion of narrative that follows is provided, for the most part, by the viewer. The resulting photograph is a much more complex thing, more complex than what is simply observed.”

McDonough’s photographs from this time period are characterized by the spontaneous aesthetic of street photography wherein both the photographer and the subjects are often in motion. There is no stopping to get to know one another. Just a lot of walking on by. But there’s an intimacy in this body of work- McDonough seems to yearn to know his subjects, beyond the desire to, as Winogrand said, “ find out what something will look like photographed”

Paul McDonough was born in Portsmouth, NH. After graduating from high school in 1958, he moved to Boston, where he graduated from the New England School of Art. In 1967, he moved to New York City, where he has lived for the past forty years. During that time he has worked as a free-lance photographer, paste-up mechanical artist and photography teacher at Pratt Institute, Yale University, Cooper Union, Marymount College, Parsons School of Design and Fordham University. He has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His work is in a number of public and private collections including, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the DeCordova Museum, the Dreyfus Corporation, the Lila Acheson Wallace Print Collection and the Joseph Seagram’s Collection. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two children.

This exhibition was curated by Sasha Wolf and Renee Devine, former Director of Zabriskie Gallery in New York and Art Program Manager, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum.

Artists

  • Barbara Bosworth
  • Dannielle Bowman
  • Caleb Charland
  • Doug DuBois
  • Rahim Fortune
  • Kris Graves
  • Adam Katseff
  • Peter Kayafas
  • Chuck Kelton
  • Paul McDonough
  • Kristine Potter
  • Christopher Rodriguez
  • Sasha Rudensky
  • Alessandra Sanguinetti
  • Bryan Schutmaat

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