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Gerald Förster - LightYears
Jenkins Johnson Gallery is very pleased to present the second part of the LightYears project a new exhibition by Gerald Förster
"For we are nothing upon the page but points of light in pilgrimage..." - Anthony Smith
LightYears is the astonishing result of Gerald Förster's decade-long exploration of cultural beauty and its complex relationship to geographical identity. Förster began the journey in 1994, traveling to some remote and extraordinary locations in the world in his quest to discover the most captivating expressions of cultural individuality and human commonality. Traveling ext...
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Gerald Förster - LightYears project
"If the human face is 'the masterpiece of God' it is here then in a thousand fateful registrations. Often the face speaks what words can never say."
Carl Sandburg, prologue, The Family of Man, 1955
In the heyday of McCarthyism's cultural stranglehold, Edward Steichen curated the groundbreaking, "The Family of Man" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This photographic tapestry of 503 photographs by 273 amateurs and professionals from 68 countries, weaves images of the human experience - marriage, family, conflict, work, play - with words from such varied sources as James Joyce, the Navajo Indian, the Bible and even the...
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