Michelle Partying Like It’s 2012 In The Year 1999, 2011
Cory Richards, a professional photographer and climber for The North Face athlete team, captured this image during the team’s 30-hour weather window which allowed them to summit Gasherbrum II, known as The Shining Mountain, an 8,000 meter (26,240 feet) peak in Pakistan that bridges the boarders of China and India. At 29, Richards was the youngest member and first American, to summit with his team members Simone Moro (Italy) and Denis Urubko (Kazakhstan). “The climb came after 26 years of failed attempts to climb one of the Pakistani 8,000 meter peaks in winter.”
Richards explains how he got the shot: “We were at about 24,270 feet, it was -45º, and we had been climbing since 3:00 am. I knew the sunrise was coming and I knew that there wasn’t going to be another opportunity like this. Trying to anticipate that, I ran (or tried to run) ahead, and promptly vomited from the effort. As I collected myself and caught my breath, I turned and fired off maybe 10 frames…this was the only one that was sharp enough to pass. It was one of those very rare and special moments where everything aligned…or at least close enough…to tell a monumental story of human effort in a massive and beautiful environment…in a single frame. I don’t think these happen very often in a career…where we can actually see the whole of our efforts is greater than the sum of all the parts…”
“We shouldn’t talk about God, but about the holiness within man and that through the musicians the prophets and saints who’ve enlightened us about other worlds. “
Ingmar Bergman
Richard Mosse, Vintage Violence, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011
Opening reception tonight @ the Jack Shainman Gallery
6.00pm – 8.00pm reception with the artist 513 West 20th Street
” Moyra Davey (Canadian, born 1958) attended Montreal’s Concordia University and the University of California, San Diego. She now lives and works in New York. Photographing in The Museum of Modern Art’s library, Davey came across a book titled Coffee Coffee and was reminded of a phrase she had once written in her notebook: “The coffee shop, the library.” Her piece by that name—created for this exhibition—is one in a series of gridded works featuring analog photographs that Davey has folded like envelopes, mailed to friends, then shown complete with stamps, postmarks, and return addresses, vestiges of travel that do not exist with e-mail. Juxtaposing her own photographs—taken at MoMA, at the public library, and in cafés—with iconic coffee shop images by Bruce Davidson and Saul Leiter, Davey “links two public spaces that offer privacy, comfort and sustenance for the body and the mind,” she says. VIA MoMA.org”
