Mark Cohen, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1973. vintage gelatin silver print, 12 x 17 1/2
inches, printed on a 16 x 20 inch sheet. Signed, titled and dated on the print verso.

Condition is very good, minus faint handing crease and impressions on left side.

Close-up wide angle street photograph of a man gesturing the photographer's camera by exteneding his hand toward the lens creating an active image of the flux of the sidewalk and the aggresive gesture of a passerby.

Biography:

American photographer best known for his innovative street photography.
Cohen was born and lives in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He attended Penn State University and Wilkes College between 1961 and 1965, and opened a commercial photo studio in 1966. Cohen’s photography was first exhibited in the 1969 exhibition Vision and Expression organised by Nathan Lyons at George Eastman House. He has twice been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1975. A monograph of black and white photographs, Grim Street, was published in 2005 by powerHouse Books. A second book, True Color, followed in 2007.

The majority of the work for which Cohen is known is shot in the neighbourhoods of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. Characteristically he shoots his subjects close in, often using a wide-angle lens and flash, frequently cropping the subjects’ heads from the frame, concentrating on small details and moments.

Very Good