Striking black and white images captured by Ann Kogen taken on the streets of cities starting from Chicago to Cairo within the early Eighties can be on view within the exhibit “STREET” at Dittmar Gallery Oct. 2 by way of Dec. 3.
After selecting up a Nikon FM digicam and black and white Tri-X movie in the summertime of 1980, Kogen started documenting the actions and variety of individuals on the road. Drawn to the immediacy of avenue images and a medium that may enable her to specific her lifelong curiosity about folks, tradition and society, Kogen captured the wonder, chaos and nuances of on a regular basis life in public areas by way of her lens.
- Dittmar will host a reception with Kogen at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2
“Kogen’s timeless photographs evoke a sense of common humanity and focus the lens on the shared universal qualities of humans regardless of their many differences,” based on the Dittmar Gallery exhibition assertion.
Holding a second lengthy after it has handed
Kogen, a local of Evanston, has been a lifelong photographer. In the early Eighties, she was influenced by photographers of the time together with Gary Winogrand, Elliot Erwitt and Mary Ellen Mark, in addition to Works Progress Administration documentary photographers of the mid-Nineteen Thirties.
With her Nikon in hand, she photographed locations and other people on the road in varied places the place she traveled, taking pictures 35 mm black and white movie, then processing the movie and making darkroom prints. Kogen prefers to work in sequence, following an concept or topic to information her picture making. Her physique of photographic work consists of quite a lot of approaches, together with documentary, portrait, summary and collage.
“Photography is a kind of magic that helps us to enter the past,” Kogen stated. “It allows one to capture the moment, defying the passage of time, to hold a moment long after it has passed.”
Dittmar Gallery is situated on the primary ground of the Norris University Center at 1999 Campus Drive on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.