Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. - Harry Roseman: Utopia Parkway: A Photographic Portrait of Joseph Cornell

UTOPIA PARKWAY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC MARCH 3 - MARCH 28, 2009

PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH CORNELL

The exhibition will consist of 20 photographs, both Type C (color) prints and gelatin silver (black and white) prints.

Harry Roseman was Joseph Cornell’s last studio assistant. Roseman began working for Cornell in 1969, and continued until 1972, the year Cornell died. During that time Roseman photographed Cornell and his surroundings. While most of the photographs were taken at Roseman’s inspiration alone, others were made with input from Cornell, and a few entirely at Cornell’s request. The photographs can be seen as a visual conversation between the two artists, their collaborative nature sometimes stated openly, sometimes indirectly. Coming full circle, Cornell later incorporated some of these photographs into his own collages.

Man sitting in wooden lawn chair in garage, looking at boo, with plastic lawn chair at right

Harry Roseman’s photographs of Joseph Cornell were the subject of an exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, Utopia Observed: A Photographic Portrait of Joseph Cornell by Harry Roseman. Roseman’s work is represented in many public collections, including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio; the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego, La Jolla, California; the Philadelphia Art Museum, Pennsylvania; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Roseman’s 600 foot relief sculpture of curtains is on permanent public display in the International Air Terminal at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.