ED SIEVERS – IN MY CORNER
2019-02-25Interested in the visual layering of meaning within his work and energy of American youth culture in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Sievers’ photographs captured decisive moments of people interacting with the public space.
Ed Sievers was born in 1932 in St. Louis, MO and attended Grinnell College, graduating with a degree in Speech in 1954. In 1966, he was accepted into the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design to study photography with his mentor Harry Callahan and contemporaries such as Linda Connor, Jim Dow, Emmet Gowin, Bart Parker and Bill Burke. Sievers’ focus was very much in the tradition of street photography, using a 35mm Leica camera (or as he called it “taking Larry out for a walk”) to shoot in cities such as Providence, Boston and New York City. Sievers would hide behind blinding sunlight to capture people emerging out of the shadows, isolating and framing them in darkness. It was in these moments that Sievers discovered his ability to catch his subjects in uninhibited instants before they could realize what was happening.
Opposite – Untitled (Send Batman to Vietnam), c. 1970’s
Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019
Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street, Floor 2
New York
10001 NY
