May 3-20, 2013: Eleven Projects (+/-) Forty Years (+/-) A Jim Dow Retrospective
Exhibition Opening Night: May 03, 2013, 6–9 pm
Open Thurs-Sat: 12-6pm
Location: Flash Forward Festival Satellite Gallery, 401 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA
From the time I got out of school until last week I have never really deviated from the way I take pictures and that will continue until I stop. The hundreds of pictures I have made and the thousands of miles I have travelled could be said to comprise a straight line; the camera is placed in front of the subject, the light is measured and, to quote myself, "My interest in photography centers on its capacity for what appears to be exact description. I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit that still remain in the everyday landscape."
Jim Dow photographs those places where people enact their everyday rituals, often endangered regional traditions--a barbershop with a heavy patina of town life covering the walls, the opulent time capsule of an old private New York club, the densely packed display of smoking pipes in an English tobacconist shop--all artifacts of what might vanish at any moment.
