MARC RIBOUD

Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1953

50x40cm Silver Gelatin Photograph

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Press Release - November 13, 2001

"Photographs We Know" Iconic Images

December 6, 2001 Through January 19, 2002

Opening Reception
Thursday, December 6th, 7-9pm

The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 70 of the most familiar and well-known photographs ever reproduced. Seventy unique photojournalists, scientists, commercial photographers, and fine art photographers made these images. This ambitious exhibition is a merging of distinctively different photographic genres, shown together for the first time, contributing, in part, to the creation of our social and cultural history. This eclectic presentation of photographs is historically significant, socially relevant, sexually provocative, stylistically unique, or artistically innovative. Collectively, this exhibition presents "Photographs We Know." We have seen these photographs reproduced numerous times in newspapers, magazines, photography books and television documentaries. Universally relevant, they reflect the past, the present, and the changing times. These indelible images are imbedded and etched in our collective consciousness; they are defining moments chronicling our visual history. This exhibition includes: Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima," Harold Edgerton's "Milk Drop Splash," Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Behind the Gare, Saint Lazar (The Puddle Jumper)," Robert Capa's "D-Day, Omaha Beach," Gordon Park's "American Gothic," W. Eugene Smith's "A Walk to Paradise Garden," Eddie Adams's "Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner," Horst's "Mainbocher Corset," Sam Shere's "The Hindenburg Disaster," Lennart Nilsson's "A Human Fetus at Three Months," O. Winston Link's "Hot Shot Eastbound," John Filo's "Shooting at Kent State," Robert Doisneau's "The Kiss," Paul Outerbridge's "Ide Collar," Irving Penn's "Three Asaro Mud Men" among many other culturally and historically significant "Photographs We Know." This group of photographers has made the viewers: aware and sympathetic to humanity in the depths of despair; embrace the profound beauty of form; challenge the status quo; examine the cult of celebrity; amazed (through microscopes and telescopes) at sights never seen before; and make us a witness to historical events. As observers, we are obliged to re-examine our pre-conceived notions and readjust our perspective to the world we inhabit. The photographers in this exhibition have captured dramatic moments in time to illustrate the power of photography to inform, persuade, enlighten and enrich the viewer's life. These images also embody truth and beauty and represent what can genuinely be called authentic "Photographs We Know."

Press Photographs Available Upon Requests