Fred W. McDarrah
Art Stars
Vintage photographs of artists from the 60's & 70's
July 21 - August 18, 2007
Eva Hesse in Her Studio, September 14, 1968. Vintage gelatin silver print. Printed 1968. 8" X 10".
Fred W. McDarrah: Art Stars shows us something that many of us in the contemporary art scene need to see more of a wide open look at the past.
Fred W. McDarrah was the primary photographer and picture editor at The Village Voice between from the 60's through the 80's. It was from this vantage point that he captured an entire era's worth of art goings-on in New York City. Alongside his pictures in The Village Voice are more than a dozen books chronicling New York's abundant cultural world. He has photographed not only artists, but musicians, writers, politicians and performers.
McDarrah provides spectacular photographic documentation of a not so distant art history of America, featuring a broad collection of vintage images of some of the most recognized artists from the 60's and 70's:
Lee Bontecou, John Cage, Christo, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Clement Greenberg, Philip Guston, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Ellsworh Kelly, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Alice Neel, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenberg, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and others.
(Because of Kinkead Contemporary's in-house residency for its artists, we particularly enjoy photographs of artists in their studios as we often find ourselves in the studio as well. To date Kinkead Contemporary has hosted 5 artists during exhibition preparation: Steven Day, Keltie Ferris, Alexander Lee, Alison Owen and James Everett Stanley)
About the Artist
Fred W. McDarrah was born in Brooklyn in 1926. He graduated from New York University in 1954 with a degree in journalism. Five years later he joined the staff of The Village Voice. He has published more than a dozen books including The Beat Scene (1960), and The Artist's World in Pictures (1961). An extensive survey of his work was recently on display at the Steven Kasher Galley in NY.
