Jerry Spagnoli

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Jerry Spagnoli (* 1956 in New York City ) is an American conceptual artist who has become known as a modern daguerreotype .

He started working in this old technique in 1991. From 1994 he worked in San Francisco , in 1995 began his series of works The Last Great Daguerreian Survey of the 20th Century , which he continued on the east coast in 1998 .

This project includes cityscapes and images of historical moments, the funeral procession after the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. , New Years Eve 1999/2000 in Times Square and especially 9/11 .

Spagnoli is a leading exponent of the modern daguerreotype in the USA. His collaboration with Chuck Close (portraits and nudes) made him known.

Spagnoli uses different properties of photography for his work. In the photomicrographs he shows how detailed pictures of people are taken from too great a distance and enlarged so often that details are no longer visible, but can still be recognized as people. In his Pantheon color photographs with a pinhole camera , the sun is in the center of every shot. From this work the quasi-documentary local stories developed , in which he photographed the sun with a super wide-angle lens. Spagnoli says of himself that he wants to puzzle out his subject, the everyday, with the help of historical photo technology.

Collections

  • The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • The National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
  • The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
  • The Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
  • The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, MO
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
  • The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
  • The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
  • The Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, OH
  • Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France

Books

In collaboration with Chuck Close
  • A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, Chuck Close and Bob Holman . Aperture, New York, 2006.
  • Demetrio Paparoni: Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes . Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editor, 2002.
Additional literature
  • Flesh and Spirit: The Photomicrographs of Jerry Spagnoli . In: The Journal of Contemporary Photography , Volume VI, 2004.
  • Lyle Rexer: Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde . Abrams, 2002.
  • John Wood: Passed, Passing or to Come: The Conceptual Songs of Jerry Spagnoli . In: John Wood: The Photographic Art . University of Iowa Press, 1997, pp. 69-73.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Friedman: Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Art of the Self-Portrait . Harry N Abrams, 2005, ISBN 0810959208 , pp. 156,339.
  2. ^ Tacoma Art Museum Presents Chuck Close Portraits (English) . In: ArtDaily , Ignacio Villarreal Jr., December 12, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2007. 
  3. ↑ “Ultimately my use of various materials and methods is centered in my desire to make complicated stories out of the everyday world, which is my apparent subject matter. Photography allows me to engage viewers with images and ideas which are filtered through the abstracting apparatus of the camera and woven into the matrix of its rich history ”

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personal data
SURNAME Spagnoli, Jerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City