P. O. Box 902, Hudson, New York 12534
Events
"The Cats In My Life"
February 20th thru March 29th, 2008
At The Park Row Gallery2 Park Row,
Chatham, N.Y.
518.392.4800
parkrowgallery@taconic.net
Photos & Text by Gerard MalangaPark Row Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition, The Cats In My Life, photographs & texts by Gerard Malanga, marking his first major exhibit in the U.S. in nearly twenty-three years.
Gerard Malanga has always sought someone who was rarely photographed or placed in situations and surroundings unique to the pictures he was shooting. Within the first six years of taking pictures he managed to create three of the most prominent portraits of post-modern photography: Charles Olson for the interview he made with Olson for The Paris Review (1969); Iggy Pop nude in the apartment they shared one summer weekend (1971); and William Burroughs in front of the corporate headquarters that bears his family name (1975). Then, in 1983, an extraordinary bit of luck happened: Allen Ginsberg commissioned him to make the first ever photograph of Jack Kerouac’s original typewritten scroll for On the Road. All in all, he has archived hundreds of poets and artists over the years, but always found time to make portraits of cats as well.
While researching and retrieving the images that make up this show, Malanga discovered the work of Wolfgang Suschitzky, the great British animal photographer from the 1950s. Of this, he has remarked: “I can’t claim to have been influenced by W. Suschitzky’s cat pictures because I wasn’t aware of his work during the time of my own feline pursuit with the camera. However, happening on his work for the first time in a couple of cat books, I was surprised and humbled by the distinct similarity of sensibility and point of view his photos imbued. Each one of his pictures is a framed portrait, a real gem of the domestic cat in all its dignity, grace and wildness. I feel a real kinship to what he has done.”
In his introduction to Gerard’s first monograph, Resistance to Memory (Arena Editions, 1998), Ben Maddow, distinguished photo historian and poet had this to say: “Malanga has that great essential virtue of the photographer: humility before the complex splendor of the real thing… Malanga is the photo-historian of this culture.”
In reviewing Gerard’s groundbreaking book two years later, Screen Tests Portraits Nudes 1964-1996 (Steidl), Fred McDarrah remarked that “Malanga is among the elite editors and photographers who have long dazzled and propelled the New York avant garde.”
Gerard Malanga lives with his three cats, Sasha, Zazie and Xena, in Brooklyn, New York. His website is gerardmalanga.com ________________________________________________________________________
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