Tag: Aaron Rose

Aaron Rose, Photographer Whose Work Long Went Unseen, Dies at 84 – The New York Times

Aaron Rose, Photographer Whose Work Long Went Unseen, Dies at 84

Spurning commercialism, he made thousands of one-of-a-kind prints that for decades he largely kept to himself. Then came a show at the Whitney.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html

Mr. Rose was that rarest of artists: one who doesn’t chase after gallery shows or sales to deep-pocketed collectors. In a 1997 interview with The New York Times in advance of his Whitney Biennial debut, he explained that his low profile had been by choice.

March 12, 2021
Coney Island : The New Yorker

Aaron Rose at Coney Island

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/07/aaron-rose-at-coney-island.html#slide_ss_0=1

Aaron Rose, who made his art-world début in his late fifties, at the 1997 Whitney Biennial, spent three summers in the early nineteen-sixties photographing the beaches of Coney Island

July 1, 2014