JANET DELANAY – NEW YORK IN THE 80S
2022-01-17In the 1980s Delaney worked in a photography lab in San Francisco and from time to time, she was also a courier for companies that needed things delivered to New York. In the morning light, she would wander with her twin lens Rolleiflex through Chinatown, across Canal Street, into SoHo and beyond 14th. Mesmerized by the depth of history embedded in the city’s buildings and the embrace of the cross pushing past her. Despite being tired and often lost, the act of photographing made Delaney feel present and alert, in tune with the crowds and mesmerised by the depth of history woven into the city’s structures. The colour photographs that make up this series reveal the formation of her generous approach to photographing streets and the people who inhabit them, capturing the precious mixture of private lives lived in public and transient moments of connection between photographer and subject.
Opposite – Ronald Reagan Poster by Donald Moffett for Act Up, 1987
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022
EUQINOM Gallery
1295 Alabama Street
San Francisco
CA 94110
