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Roberta FinebergParis, France, Cities, Black and White Portrait Photography, Bows by RF1989
1989
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A black-and-white image shot on film in Paris, France in the 1980s, Roberta Fineberg’s subject is a young French-African girl with braids, ribbons, and bows that RF photographed in front of the girl’s building on the Boulevard de Menilmontant in the 20th arrondissement.
Bows, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg in Paris, France is 14" x 11" a gelatin silver print in an edition of 5. Signed, titled, and dated on photo front by the artist.
Provenance: RF Studio
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Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City.
In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group show (2018), Curate NY online group show (2013), Paris Photo: Photos, Femmes, Feminisme group show (2010). Fineberg’s photography is in private and public collections, including portraits of women writers at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris, France. She was awarded 15 laurels (2020-2023) from independent film festivals worldwide for her experimental video, You Will Never Beat New York (2020).
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- Creator:Roberta Fineberg (American)
- Creation Year:1989
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New york, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: 99Prints1stDibs: LU74632352923
Roberta Fineberg
Roberta Fineberg, born in Boston, is a fine-art photographer in New York City. She has focused on moody nightscapes and landscape photography and has exhibited in France, the USA and Russia, with photographs in private and public collections, including her series of portraits on women writers at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris.
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