MARY FREY – REAL LIFE DRAMAS
2018-11-26The imagery in Real Life Dramas is culled from a series of the same name, first exhibited at MOMA’s 1987 New Photography 2 show. The original photographs are, like her black and white images, portrayals of ordinary moments constructed for the camera, but with the addition of photographically generated texts in the prints’ white borders, that appropriate the language of popular culture. is culled from a series of the same name, first exhibited at MOMA’s 1987 New Photography 2 show. The original photographs are (like her Carver images), constructed, ordinary moments, but with the addition of photographically generated texts in the prints’ white borders, that appropriate the language of popular culture. For the book, Frey abandoned these strict pairings of text and image and instead incorporated a few phrases throughout, opening up the work to intriguing, new possibilities.
Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2018
The Half King Photography Series
505 West 23rd Street
New York
10011 NY
