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Anahita
Gallery, Inc.
Anahita Gallery, Inc., is a photography-only gallery specializing in vintage and modern international photography with a focus on Russia and Central Asia, Japan, Southeast and South Asia, Africa and the Near East. Gallery
Location: 616 ½ B Canyon Road, down Canyon Alley, Santa Fe NM 87501 Current Exhibition Devil at the CrossroadsJean-Pascal Imsand (1960-1994) Like
the music of American bluesman Robert Johnson, played in a Swiss
mode Exhibition:
October 26 to December 31, 2007 Opening: October 26 5-7 pm
The Fondation Jean-Pascal Imsand holds copyright to all works created by the artist Jean-Pascal Imsand. Established in 2000, the aim of the Fondation Jean-Pascal Imsand (FJPI) is to keep Imsand's work and its documentation together, to maintain its proper record and to make it accessible to the general public through publications and exhibitions. The FJPI has entrusted the artist's archive for safekeeping to the Fotostiftung Schweiz (Swiss Foundation of Photography) in Winterthur, where researchers, curators and other professionals can study the works by appointment. Proceeds from this limited sale of the artist's work will be used to further the aims of the FJPI. Exhibitions - Jean-Pascal Imsand
Publications - Jean-Pascal Imsand
Gallery
Address: 616 ½ B Canyon Road, Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Photo websites:www.photocentralasia.com and www.photorussia.com For
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Jean-Pascal
Imsand remains a dark and in many ways mysterious figure despite
the numerous publications of his work and his unquestioned stature
in the history of late 20th century European photography. Imsand
was one of the last generation of artists to work by hand in the
darkroom to create photomontages, or as he preferred, the
French term assemblages, in which he used steam, clouds,
and deep shadow to construct dreamlike visions. Imsand achieves
equally dramatic effects in his "straight" photography,
notably in the urban cityscapes of his hometown Lausanne. Here,
the only human figures are the wary inhabitants of an often threatening
environment - reminiscent of the gothic works of Paul Citroën
or Fritz Lang's film Metropolis. In contrast, his portraits
are tender, with gentle humor, especially those featuring his beautiful
wife, the actress Sabina Scullari. 
Imsand’s
formal concerns are always paramount, and it is this focus on the
abstract qualities of an image that sustains and gives coherence
to Imsand’s work, regardless of the subject matter or whether
he takes a "straight," montage, fragmented or minimalist
approach to each particular photograph. While the "message"
of each photograph may include elements of the political, the documentary,
or visionary, the formal rigor beneath the message is what compels
the viewer to look, and then look again. Even in his commissioned
works (a source of much strife with his editors, except in the case
of the more avant magazine "du"), this dedication to his
personal vision resulted in the compilation of a major body of unique
works even during his short lifetime. Imsand’s edgy, dark landscapes
and attenuated, ghostlike figures are a forceful artistic challenge
to the clichéd notions of Switzerland as a land of stolid
virtue, chocolate, and banks.
The
first retrospective exhibition of Imsand's work was a joint-project
between three major Swiss photography institutions conceived and
produced by the Fotostiftung Schweiz (Swiss Foundation for Photography),
Winterthur, the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, and the
Galleria Gottardo, Lugano. (A list of other exhibitions and books
on the artist is attached below.) Although Imsand’s works
have found an important place in museum and private collections
worldwide, the Anahita International Photography show of twenty
Imsand prints in Santa Fe is the first U.S. private gallery
exhibition of the artist’s oeuvre.
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ethno arts, Islamic arts, and
antiquities
textiles,
jewelry
ethno arts, Islamic arts, and
antiquities
textiles,
jewelry
ethno arts, Islamic arts, and
antiquities