Tag: Matthew Pillsbury

  • Matthew Pillsbury’s “Sanctuary” Finds Solace in American Cities | The New Yorker

    Matthew Pillsbury’s “Sanctuary” Finds Solace in American Cities | The New Yorker

    Matthew Pillsbury’s “Sanctuary” Finds Solace in American Cities

    In the months since the Presidential election, the photographer has become interested in “how we maneuver the pathways in between the political chaos.”

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/matthew-pillsburys-sanctuary-finds-solace-in-american-cities

    For more than a decade, Matthew Pillsbury has been photographing city scenes using long exposures, a process that turns his environs, whether a cherry-blossom-filled park in Tokyo or the High Line in New York City, into opalescent blurs of light and movement. Pillsbury’s work last appeared on Photo Booth in 2015, when we featured his exuberant series devoted to summertime in New York City—rooftop parties, the Coney Island boardwalk, Prospect Park Bandshell, and public pools glinting and shining in the sun. In the months since the Presidential election, though, the tone of Pillsbury’s work has shifted. For the photos featured in his new exhibition, “Sanctuary” (opening at Benrubi Gallery, in Chelsea, on September 14th), Pillsbury told me that he was interested in “how we maneuver the pathways in between the political chaos,” and how cities, even with their crowds and chaos, can act as sites of refuge and facilitate acts of resistance. His photo of the Women’s March on Washington, taken for the New York Times Magazine, became one of the most indelible images of the event. In it, an array of pink pussy hats forms a shimmering sea around the Washington Monument, which soars above the crowd stark and in focus. Pillsbury’s long exposures have a way of highlighting individuals who are lost in private moments as the city whirls around them—the man sitting by himself on a diner bench, the woman lost in the screen of her phone. That kind of atomized urban existence is on display in “Sanctuary,” too, such as in a photo of a woman taking a selfie at sunset on North Avenue Beach, in Chicago, standing alone on a vast stretch of sand that reaches back toward the skyline. But other images in the series emphasize the city as a collective space. Recently, Pillsbury went to Columbus Circle to photograph a protest against President Donald Trump’s plan to end daca. At the edge of one photo from the event, you can just make out the blurry slogan of a sign—“Protect daca! Here to Stay!”—but it’s the cloud of protesters, unified in their display of resistance, that keeps the eyes fixed to the frame.

  • Matthew Pillsbury’s Mesmerizing Summer – The New Yorker

    Matthew Pillsbury’s Mesmerizing Summer – The New Yorker

    Matthew Pillsbury’s Mesmerizing Summer

    via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/matthew-pillsburys-mesmerizing-summer

    Matthew Pillsbury’s 2013 book “City Stages” collected a decade’s worth of his stunning large-format black-and-white photographs of urban life and scenery

  • 11 Photographers Among Winners of 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships

    11 Photographers Among Winners of 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships | PDNPulse

    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of their 2014 fellowships today. Eleven photographers are among the 178 recipients. They are (links direct to their bios and image galleries on the Guggenheim site): Robert Dawson LaTo

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/04/11-photographers-among-winners-2014-guggenheim-fellowships.html

    They are (links direct to their bios and image galleries on the Guggenheim site):

    Robert Dawson
    LaToya Frazier
    Jason Fulford
    Phyllis Galembo
    Gregory Halpern
    Brenda Kenneally
    Andrew Moore
    Lori Nix
    Matthew Pillsbury
    Mark Ruwedel
    Rachel Sussman