"Colour Before Color"
Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York.
June 7, 2007-August 17, 2007

The gallery venue has played a significant role in deciphering photography’s past as well as ushering in its future. Take Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery, for example, established at the turn of the twentieth century to enlighten the public about the artistic possibilities of “modern” photography. Hasted Hunt Gallery in Chelsea, opened exactly a century later, regularly shows the cutting-edge work of contemporary photographers, while precociously mining the past for little-known photographers who will shed new light on old beliefs. As a case in point, until now, most of us believed that the photographers who put color on the map were American and could be named on one hand. This summer, Sarah Hasted and William Hunt mounted an exhibition of color photography, mostly European, mostly from the 1970s. So far, nothing about it sounds...

 

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