Jerry Spagnoli

Jerry Spagnoli (* 1956 in New York City ) is an American conceptual artist who has become known as modern daguerreotypist.

He began to work in this old technique in 1991. From 1994 he worked in San Francisco, 1995 began his series of works, The Last Great Daguerreian Survey of the 20th Century, which he continued on the east coast in 1998.

This project includes urban landscapes and illustrations of historical moments, the funeral procession after the Flugunfalltod of John F. Kennedy Jr., the New Year's Eve 1999/2000 in Times Square, and especially the 9/11.

Spagnoli is a leading representative of modern daguerreotype in the USA. His collaboration with Chuck Close ( portraits and nudes ) made ​​him known ..

Spagnoli uses different properties of photography for his work. In the Photomicrographien he shows how detail-like photographs of people taken from too far away and as often enlarged so that details are no longer visible, still erkenntbar are as human beings. In his Pantheon color photographs with a pinhole camera, the sun is in the center of each recording. From this work, the quasi -documentation generic local stories in which he took up the sun with a super wide angle lens developed. Spagnoli himself says of himself that he wanted to verrätseln his subject, the everyday, with the help of historical photography.

Collections

  • The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • The National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
  • The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
  • The Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
  • The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
  • The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
  • The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
  • The Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH
  • Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France
  • Daguerreotypes, Steidl, Göttingen, 2006.
  • American Dreaming, Steidl, Göttingen, 2010.
  • A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, Chuck Close and Bob Holman. Aperture, New York, 2006.
  • Demetrio Paparoni: Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes. Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editor, 2002.
  • Flesh and Spirit: The Photo micro graph of Jerry Spagnoli. In: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume VI, 2004.
  • Lyle Rexer: Photography's Antiquarian Avant -Garde. Abrams, 2002.
  • John Wood: Passed, Passing or to Come: The Songs of Jerry Spagnoli Conceptual. In: John Wood: The Photographic Art University of Iowa Press, 1997, pp. 69-73.
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