Fine Print: Manhattan, 1982 Paper size:26.3 x 37 in (67 x 94 cm)

Fine Print: Manhattan, 1982 Paper size:26.3 x 37 in (67 x 94 cm)Harry Gruyaert is known for his extraordinary photographic work with color. Born in Antwerp in 1941, he originally dreamed of becoming a film director. In the late 1970s, Pop art and a trip to Morocco inspired him to become one of the first photographers in Europe to devote his work entirely to color photography. Gruyaerts cinematographic background instilled in him an aesthetic conception of photography. Rather than telling stories or documenting the

I don't know why

temples and advertising

only finding time to take his film to the agency to be developed when the protestors slept

This intimate

three gentlemen wait for a bus in the rain on Hyde Park corner in London

Dolly Parton look-alike competitions

through both the contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials

103 years before

Dawid Szymin⁠—later known as David ‘Chim’ Seymour⁠—was born in Warsaw in 1911 into a family of intellectuals

which depict the artist playing in the sand on the beach with his son and dutifully carrying a shade over Gilot’s head

a three million square kilometer republic in northeastern Siberia

Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage