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Philip Trager: A Retrospective

June 23 - September 17, 2006

2006

University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)

Organized by Davison Art Center, Wesleyan College

For more than forty years, Philip Trager (b. 1935) has created luminous and compelling photographs. From his evocative images of New York City in the 1970s to the elegiac portraits of the villas of Palladio in the 1980s, and the ever-changing face of Paris in the 1990s, Trager has captured the subtleties of our built environment. Since the 1980s, he has been one of the leading photographers of contemporary dance, collaborating with dancers and choreographers to create dramatic expressions of gesture and movement. Trager combines an astute eye with technical mastery. He pursues thematic series, selecting the individual subjects for form and aesthetic impact. He catches the play of light or the geometry of a structure; lesser-known buildings are included among the most famous. To achieve the fine detail of his architectural photographs, Trager uses a large-format view camera on a tripod, carefully selecting and composing each image before taking only one or two shots. For the dance photographs, he uses a hand-held camera with a motor drive to advance the film rapidly, timing his shots with a combination of intuition and experience. The exhibition at the University Art Gallery features prints from all the important series Philip Trager has undertaken, including his very early work and a late series of prints of his wife. Philip Trager is a master printer, and the exhibition features extraordinarily rich and detailed gelatin silver and platinum prints, as well as Iris prints created under his exacting directions. Philip Trager has published many books over the years, especially on the topics of the villas of Palladio, the architecture of Paris, the architecture of New York, and contemporary dancers. A major retrospective catalog/book with reproductions of 156 images was published by Steidl, Gottingen, Germany, and is available at the gallery. The exhibition was organized by Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, where it was shown this Spring, and Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, where it will be featured this Fall. Next year it will be shown at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. The Library will be the final repository of Philip Trager's photographs and archives. The Florence Gould Foundation provided major support for the retrospective catalog and exhibition.

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Trager, Philip

1935-current

Active as a photographer for more than forty-five years, Philip Trager is one of the foremost photographers of architecture and dance. His distinctly personal photographs of buildings are regarded as landmarks in architectural photography. His expressionistic photographs of dancers in outdoor settings have expanded the genre of dance photography. Ten monographs of his photographs have been published. His most recent books are Philip Trager, a retrospective book, and Faces, both published by Steidl. Four of Trager's books have been chosen for the annual best books selection of The New York Times Annual Review of Books. His books have received various awards including Finalist for the Grand Prix Award of Les Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Book of the Year of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and inclusion in the Best Books selections of Interview, Vanity Fair, The Times (London), New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times Book Review and others. The Library of Congress is acquiring his definitive archive as part of its core collections. Trager's work is included in numerous museum and private collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Center for Creative Photography, Museum of the City of New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Trager's photographs have been exhibited worldwide in museums and galleries.

http://www.philiptrager.com/

http://www.philiptrager.com/

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