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Richard Nagler

Richard Nagler (Born 1947) is active/lives in California, New York.  Richard Nagler is known for Street scene and genre photography.

Following is the Editorial Review from Amazon of Word on The Street by Richard Nagler.

Richard Nagler s work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum International, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications; shown in museums and galleries around the world; and included in prominent public and private collections.

Nagler is respected as an observer with a unique photographic vision as well as a photography collector with a strong sense of history. Word on the Street is his third book of photography. He is represented by George Krevsky Gallery and currently lives in San Francisco.

Change the way you see people go about their daily affairs, walking the streets with a camera in hand can yield insightful and surprising interpretations of daily life. For thirty years, photographer Richard Nagler has sought out these insights by pairing isolated words found in his environment with random passersby. The results are playful yet pro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3817 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Richard Nagler

   Richard Nagler  Born:  1947 - New York City
Known for:  Street scene and genre photography

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Following is the Editorial Review from Amazon of Word on The Street by Richard Nagler.

Richard Nagler s work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum International, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications; shown in museums and galleries around the world; and included in prominent public and private collections.

Nagler is respected as an observer with a unique photographic vision as well as a photography collector with a strong sense of history. Word on the Street is his third book of photography. He is represented by George Krevsky Gallery and currently lives in San Francisco.

Change the way you see people go about their daily affairs, walking the streets with a camera in hand can yield insightful and surprising interpretations of daily life. For thirty years, photographer Richard Nagler has sought out these insights by pairing isolated words found in his environment with random passersby. The results are playful yet profound.

Visual poetics is how Allen Ginsberg once characterized Nagler's photographs. Every one of these picture poems brings to my mind a haiku. Drawing on some of the same elements that distinguish the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, and Ed Ruscha, Nagler's urban photographs have delighted audiences around the world.

Compelling, shocking, amusing, and sensitive, each portrait is a visual pun a wink to the reader and an invitation to create a story to complete the narrative. Some photographs took weeks to realize, capture, and record. Some took milliseconds. Sometimes years go by before Nagler spots a word suitable to become a picture after all, these are in many ways accidental photographs.

The magic of his work rests in the serendipitous moment when person and word come together. Word on the Street reveals that we are all part of an amazing artistic mosaic, even as we blithely stroll down the street.


Biography from Krevsky Fine Art

RICHARD NAGLER

Richard Nagler is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in the fields of philosophy and politics. After studying painting, he began to photograph in the early 1970s. Since then, he has garnered widespread attention. Three critically acclaimed books featuring his photography have been published: My Love Affair with Miami Beach, (Simon & Schuster, 1991), Oakland Rhapsody: The Secret Soul of an American Downtown, (North Atlantic Books, 1995), and Word on the Street (Heydady, 2010).

On a local scale, Nagler has been a respected member of the San Francisco Bay Area photographic community for the past thirty years. He is an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of the photographic arts, having served on many non-profit boards and committees over the years.

The Richard Nagler Competition for Jewish Photography is an international photo competition held annually for photographers working with Judaic themes at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California. In addition to the wide recognition Nagler receives for his photographic work and charitable contributions, he is also highly regarded as an astute photography collector.

Nagler’s photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally over the past thirty years. In addition to his solo exhibitions in 2004 and 2007 at the George Krevsky Gallery, he has been featured in one-person shows at the Oakland Museum, the Albert Einstein Center in Sacramento, the May Museum in Lawrence, New York, and the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Additionally, he has been included in group exhibitions at the Twining Gallery in New York City, the Klein Gallery in Chicago, the Dalian Gallery in China, and the SF Arts Commission Gallery in San Francisco.


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