Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W Superior St
312.266.2350
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Jed Fielding, Almería #76, 1977
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May 16, 2009 – July 3, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–5:30pm)
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Although the golden age of street photography may have passed, the genre didn't die with the likes of Garry Winogrand or Henri Cartier-Bresson. Jed Fielding's eye-catching photographs from the alleyways of Naples, Mexico City, and elsewhere (dating from 1977–2005), are ample corroboration. Reading people on the street like a musical score (as he puts it), Fielding moves and places his subjects to accentuate gestures or highlight fortuitous moments. His style combines a crisp simplicity, a coiled spring-like dynamism, and a close-up viewpoint that can seem audaciously intimate. His recent portraits of blind children — more of which are currently on exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center — are perhaps his most moving works yet.
