{"id":20529,"date":"2014-03-01T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T21:25:41","slug":"fred-w-mcdarrah-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/03\/01\/fred-w-mcdarrah-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"~FRED W. McDARRAH . . LAST WEEK !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

WILL THE REAL !!<\/strong> . . FAB FREDDY !! <\/strong>. . PLEASE STAND UP !!<\/p>\n

LISTEN UP: LAST WEEK TO CATCH . . PUTTING ASIDE, JOSH HARRIS !! & RENE RICARD !!
\nAN AMAZING SLICE OF NYC ART WORLD HISTORY . . <\/p>\n

FRED W. McDARRAH . . ‘SAVE THE VILLAGE’
\nJAN 30 thru SAT MARCH 8, 2014
\nSTEVEN KASHER GALLERY<\/a> – 521 WEST 23, CHELSEA, NYC<\/p>\n

FRED W. McDARRAH<\/strong> (1926-2007) was the “first picture editor and only <\/strong> staff photographer at the VILLAGE VOICE for decades” . . so, GO FIGURE !!
\nthis wonderful, amazing, archival show . . presents over 130 rare & original VINTAGE PRINTS that span 1958-1979, in short: the height of when NYC truly was the center of all.
\nart world included !!
\nso, listen up, all you digital geeks, these are the original<\/strong> hard copy black & white prints !! many of which are . . signed, dated and often accompanied with Fred McDarrah’s own notations, in his characteristic squiggly script – scribbled by hand, in thick black ink – across the bottom white border.<\/p>\n

this is<\/strong> a big week in NYC – BUT this jewel box of a show should go to the top<\/strong> of YOUR list, no matter who you are, and . . what your interests !! <\/p>\n

the show’s card, says it very well:
\n“Before the Internet there was FRED W. McDARRAH: the most curious, knowledgeable, and indefatigable photographer of the New York downtown<\/strong> scene in the second half of the 20th century. NOBODY did more than FRED to save Greenwich village in our collective memory.” !!<\/p>\n

read more: FRED W McDARRAH – BIO & background<\/a><\/p>\n

see: selection – exhibit images
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nFRED W. McDARRAH, ‘CARL BERNSTEIN AND NORA EPHRON’, ca 1978.
\nvintage gelatin silver, printed ca. 1978, 10 x 8 in.
\n($2,500)<\/p>\n

I’d snap that up in a nanosecond – if I had the dough.
\ndamn, if NORA EPHRON wasn’t such a foxy, cute chick, back in the day.<\/p>\n

this is such a famous<\/strong> image, it played at the top of the game, when essayist Nora (sadly) passed away a few years back. it makes you realize the huge impact digital photography has had on the proliferation of pictorial material & images. back in the day, there was no<\/strong> way to get photos out there, except though print, newspaper & magazines – mostly.
\nan indie ? forget about it !!
\nand, when a photographer caught a moment, it was a real ‘catch’ – there weren’t that many people out there, going for it.
\nyou can also see that great ‘characteristic’ of the most gifted event photographers, very plainly here in this image.
\nyou have one <\/strong>chance, one second . . to catch the moment, and then: time was up !! so you had better be . . quick & g-o-o-d.<\/p>\n

and, if you are too<\/strong> much of an art world purist to be interested in NORA EPHRON, who was NOT well served by that stupid Meryl Strep cinematic characterization, what about:
\nED RUSCHA . . <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nFRED W. McDARRAH, ‘ED RUSCHA and UNIDENTIFIED’, ca 1968.
\nvintage gelatin silver, printed ca 1968. 4-3\/4 x 7-1\/2 in.
\n($3,000)<\/p>\n

a young and super, super hip, cowboy: ED RUSCHA !!
\ntaken in 1968 – when most people, even those in the art world, and esp<\/strong> those on the East Coast !!
\nstill hadn’t heard about him, ED RUSCHA. . to become known as possibly contemporary art’s most influential . . ‘sign painter’ – !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WILL THE REAL !! . . FAB FREDDY !! . . PLEASE STAND UP !! LISTEN UP: LAST WEEK TO CATCH . . PUTTING ASIDE, JOSH HARRIS !! & RENE RICARD !! AN AMAZING SLICE OF NYC ART WORLD HISTORY . . FRED W. McDARRAH . . ‘SAVE THE VILLAGE’ JAN 30 thru SAT MARCH […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20531,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions\/20531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}