Man on Rooftop is shown in Los Angeles:
November 1966
November 12 – December 17, 2016
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
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| Artist Unknown, Untitled, 1966, B&W photograph, 5 x 3 1/2 inches. |
November 1966
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
November 12 – December 17, 2016
Opening reception: Saturday, November 12
"Blum & Poe is pleased to present November 1966, an
exhibition of self-portrait photographs created fifty years ago to the
month by an unknown photographer. The twenty-eight images at hand show a
shirtless man, alone on a rooftop, donning a variety of women’s bikini
briefs and underwear. He is seen from multiple vantage points – some
poses unassuming and others uninhibited – all the while an undercurrent
of 1960s experimental, sexual whimsy pervades. What lends a strange
atmosphere to these pictures is the ambiguity of the scene – nothing is
known of the photographer’s intentions, the viewer is left to construe a
narrative long divorced from creator and date of origin.
The compositions go beyond their surface eroticism by documenting a
carefully conceived relationship between the body of the unknown
photographer/subject and the surrounding sightlines and architecture.
From nearly every corner of the roof stage, we are presented with a
panoramic view of the photographer’s performance. The fact that these
pictures were conceived privately at the edge of building and sky, along
with the subject’s commonly found closed-fist stance, frame this
unknown photographer as a countercultural Superman of sorts."
For more information please click here.
http://www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitions/november-1966#images
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