Word: germano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five--Mitch Epstein, Thomas Germano, Leo Rubinfein, Len Jenshel and David Wing--are remarkably young (all under 30), and perhaps for that reason the process of their experimentation, study and growth positively illuminates their work. These still photographs show these artists moving forward. Now masters of technique, free of the supporting framework in which one learns the art of photography, they have not yet put themselves into any stylistic box. Lifson seems to have wanted to exhibit their searchings almost as much as their achievements: "I wanted to show students where they might be in three or four years...
...TAKES WORK--in italics--to produce such pictures. Germano left a Wall St. career to work only on photographing his native Berkeley, finally inventing a camera to take the pictures he envisioned. The instrument's ability to capture incredibly fine detail and texture has made it a necessary tool of the avant-garde cameraman, and its mastery a challenge he must meet. (All the pictures in this exhibit, except Rubinfien's, were taken with it.) Leaving, as Lifson says, "no place to hide," the superclarity of the camera's vision lends these pictures an uncanny surrealism. The trees in Wing...
...easily pass for Socrates emerging from the water. These photographs all evoke multitudes of other images--perhaps a touchstone of worthwhile art is just this ability to reach out beyond itself. Rubinfien's beach house with a heart painted on it might be taken from Fellini's memory. And Germano's trees in Brooklyn, shading clay or plastic Madonnas, remind me of a Brooklyn "miracle" I once heard of... A statuette of the Madonna, enshrined in the hollow of a tree, began to weep. Though it was scientifically determined her tears were only sap, believers continued to trek...
Previews of this show, opening Thursday from 5-7 p.m. promise that it contains the most exciting photographs to have been shown at Harvard in a long time. Mitch Epstein, Thomas Germano, Len Jenstel, Leo Rubinfein and David Wing are young (under 30) but precociously talented artists who won't be unknowns much longer, judging by the genius of their work. Using a camera of their own invention, they have gone searching for the facts of existence with a vision that intensifies that existence. Masters of the photographic medium, the five possess perceptions that can take what appear...
Somewhere between five and six in the morning Joe Germano stops his white jeep on a Somerville street to pick up Louis Sevilitti. They drive in silence to the Essex Delicatessen or a similar all-night restaurant where they know all the "regulars" and where Joe orders a bagel and tea, Louis coffee and an English. Then they make their way down Atlantic Ave, to the wharf where Louis' boat, the Salvatore, is moored, and motor out past the airport in the sunrise...