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Artist: Laurence Salzmann
Ascending, Cuba, 2001
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Happy New Year, 1980 Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print Photograph
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Surfside, FL
this is a rare (possibly unique) vintage silver gelatin emulsion print of the artist's daughter, it is signed and dated 1980.
Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of a Mexican village, and Philadelphia Mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. His most recent work in Cuba is soon to be published in book form by Blue Flower Press...
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1980s Modern Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Training
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Jump of the Tiger, Cuba
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 5.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Sport Is the Right of the People
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 10.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Wrestler's Embrace
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 10.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Free Exercise
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 10.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Salto de Tigre
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 5.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Preparing for the Wrestling Class
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
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Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Laurence Salzmann’s first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery depicts the gritty world of wrestling in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The word “La Lucha” means both wrestling and struggle in Cuban Spanish. Here the dual meaning refers equally to the young wrestlers’ physical struggle and the Cuban people’s fight to survive in an economically and politically oppressed culture. Both rely on pride, ingenuity and an indomitable spirit as they strive to gain respect on the global stage.
Salzmann’s photographs reflect over a decade long passion that began on a trip to Santiago de Cuba to improve relations between our two countries. While there, Salzmann stumbled upon a gym where young boys aged 8-18 learn Greco-Roman style wrestling. Once home he could not get the silhouetted forms of young athletes in training out of his head.
This classical series of eighteen photographs, ranging in size from 11″ x 14″ to 20″ x 24″ are silver gelatin prints. Using his Hasselblad, Salzmann’s shots are un-posed and almost voyeuristic, revealing an intimate and universal portrait of human resilience. While Salzmann’s work is rooted in the social-documentary tradition, the exquisitely printed images tell a narrative of personal discovery that appeals to all ages and cultures. Taking early inspiration from American photographic greats such as Walker Evans and Paul Strand, Salzmann’s method is to create a relationship whereby the subjects feel comfortable with his presence.
In the invitational image, “Ascending”, we see four boys train using their only resources, their sinewy bodies and the primitive gym’s concrete stairs. Each boy grips the ankles of another, wheelbarrow style, as they climb the steps on their hands. The slanted staircase, the triangulated shapes of the boy’s limbs intertwined, and the brown bodies against the stark white wall create an arresting image that goes beyond its documentary origin to artistry. Viewed from afar it recalls the ancient Greek brush in red-figure technique used to decorate fine pottery.
In the image, “Jump of the Tiger”, a young man vaults across the back of another. The intense physicality of the wrestler...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Ascending
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 10.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Archival Pigment
Struggle for Life
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
In Motion
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
No, No, No, or, Photographer's Favorite
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Bridge
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Future Champions
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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1990s Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Arm Exercise
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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1990s Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Match Practice
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Countdown
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Subiendo Las Escaleras
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 5.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Lineup
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Hop Scotch
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 10.
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1990s Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Silver Gelatin
El Illumindo
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Laurence Salzmann Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper
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Happy New Year, 1980 Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print Photograph
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Surfside, FL
this is a rare (possibly unique) vintage silver gelatin emulsion print of the artist's daughter, it is signed and dated 1980.
Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of a Mexican village, and Philadelphia Mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. His most recent work in Cuba is soon to be published in book form by Blue Flower Press under the title: La Lucha/The Struggle.
Salzmann's photographic method is deeply informed by his background in anthropology and involves long term participation in and observation of groups or events. His work illustrates how lives and events are shaped by the environments and conditions in which people live.
1944 Born in Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
1971 MA Anthropology, Temple University
1965 BA German Literature, Temple University
1962 Film Studies, I.D.H.E.C., Paris
LANGUAGES:
Fluent: French, German, Romanian, Spanish; some Turkish.
PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS & HONORS
2004 Blue Mountain Center, Residency
2003 The Print Center and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program:
selected for a digitally printed mural at the new Eagles Stadium
2001 Puffin Foundation grant for photographic work on La Lucha/The Struggle
2001 Pew Fellowship in Photography
2001 Perkins Art Center Purchase Award for The Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Fellowship Award in Photography
1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Travel Face to Face Book and Exhibit
1981-82 International Research & Exchanges Board Grant in photography to Romania
1974-76 Fulbright Fellow in Photography to Romania
1970 American Film Institute Grant for film, Eddie
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2006-2005 VIAJEROS: North American Artists/Photograhers Images of Cuba
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
2005 Powelton Photographs, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia
2004 Bound to Nothing, Photographers & sculptors, Mother dog Studios, Houston Texas
2003 Childbirth in Jewish Tradition, The Jewish Museum of London
2002 Viewing Photography: The Photo Review at 25, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
The University of the Arts
2001 Works on Paper 2001, Arcadia University
2000 Our Town, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia
2000 Work from the Collection by Philadelphia-Area Photographers
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
1999 The Changing Face of Family, The Jewish Museum Jewish Museum, New York
1997 Art & Religion: The Many Faces of Faith, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia
1997 Here and There; Then and Now: Jewish Life In and Out of the Former Soviet Union National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C.
1996 Be Fruitful and Multiply, Beth Hatefusoth available on-line @ AOL Jewish
1995 A Year in the Life of Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Art Alliance
1993 Flesh&Blood, Friends of Photography, Mt. Carmel
1992 Mexico Through Foreign Eyes,(Mexico visto por ojos extranjeros). Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, International Center for Photography, New York, Armand Hammer Museum of Art & Cultural Center
1989-88 Manner Sehen Manner, show organized by Foster Gallery, Edinburgh Ten European Cities
1989-88 Behold the Man, show organized by Frankfurt Kunstverein
1988 Paris Month of Photography, Paris
1984 Contemporary Pennsylvania Photographers, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1984 Invited Group Show, Jeffery Fuller Gallery, Philadelphia
1983 Camera Movements, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
1981 Male Figures, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery
1979 New Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery
1979 Pennsylvania Photographers,Allentown Art Museum
Benefit Israel Museum,Witkin Gallery
1972 City/2, Philadelphia Art Museum
1971 Tlaxcalan Sketches, Philadelphia Art Alliance
BOOKS/CATALOGS and Photographs included in Books
2006 La Lucha/The Struggle, Blue Flower Press, Philadelphia (catalogue)
2005 De Noche//By Night, Artist's Book, Philadelphia
2002 Imagining Cutumba, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (catalogue)
1999 Miorita: An icon of Romanian Culture, (ed.) with an introduction by Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Essay by Alexandru Husar, Photographs by Laurence Salzmann, The Center for Romanian Studies, Iassi, Romania
1995 Face to Face: Encounters between Jews & Blacks, Blue Flower Press
1995 Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography...
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