We are opening a new gallery!
We are thrilled to announce that we are opening a brand new gallery in Hudson! As you know, we have always exhibited photography on the second floor of the Carrie Haddad Gallery - we felt it was only proper to create a separate space dedicated to showing the gallery's strong roster of photographers. Carrie Haddad Photographs will present the works of established and emerging contemporary photographers from all over the world with an emphasis on exhibiting photographers of the Hudson Valley region. We really look forward to creating a bold and exciting new space for photography in the Hudson Valley.
Our first exhibit, "Such Great Heights", opens Saturday November 29 from 6 to 8pm and runs through January 11.
Hope to see you in the new space!
Love,
Carrie & Melissa
Image: Vincent Laforet, Grand Central Station, New York, NY
Carrie Haddad Photographs
318 Warren Street, Hudson New York
SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
Curated by Melissa Stafford
John Griebsch
Jefferson Hayman
Kahn & Selesnick
Vincent Laforet
Keith Loutit
November 27 – January 4 2009
Reception: Saturday, November 29 from 6 to 8 pm
The inaugural exhibition at Carrie Haddad Photographs, the brand new exhibit space of Carrie Haddad Gallery, borrows its title from The Postal Services' song, Such Great Heights. The song romantically proclaims that, "everything looks perfect from far away" and the five photographers featured in this show explore a world seen from this same spectacular vantage point. Whether they attempt to transmit a narrative or not, they radiate a sense of great magnitude; the world appears immense and yet wholly intimate and personal. Standing on the edge of the photograph, the viewer feels fierce and full of possibility. The unbounded horizon has always stood as metaphor for the limitless nature of personal experience, inviting explorers and wanderers betokened by the grandeur of the expansive landscape.
Such Great Heights, speaks of an idyllic euphoria, a dizzying love affair, always aggressive, leaving you on a peak you are reluctant to depart: "They will see us waving from such great heights/ 'come down now,' they'll say / But everything looks perfect from far away, / 'come down now,' but we'll stay." The photographs included in this exhibition share this same intoxication.
In his essay, "Truth and Landscape'' Robert Adams states that landscape art is important because it can meet our need to experience the world as comprehensible: ''We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. It is the fitness of a landscape to one's experience of life's condition and possibilities that finally makes a scene important or not."
Carrie Haddad Photographs is located at 318 Warren Street in Hudson, NY. Gallery hours are from 10 am to 9pm Thursday through Saturday, 10 am to 6pm Sunday and Monday. For more information please call the gallery at 518-828-7655 (we will not be answering this phone number until the week of November 23rd!) or visit www.carriehaddadgallery.com
Our first exhibit, "Such Great Heights", opens Saturday November 29 from 6 to 8pm and runs through January 11.
Hope to see you in the new space!
Love,
Carrie & Melissa
Image: Vincent Laforet, Grand Central Station, New York, NY
Carrie Haddad Photographs
318 Warren Street, Hudson New York
SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
Curated by Melissa Stafford
John Griebsch
Jefferson Hayman
Kahn & Selesnick
Vincent Laforet
Keith Loutit
November 27 – January 4 2009
Reception: Saturday, November 29 from 6 to 8 pm
The inaugural exhibition at Carrie Haddad Photographs, the brand new exhibit space of Carrie Haddad Gallery, borrows its title from The Postal Services' song, Such Great Heights. The song romantically proclaims that, "everything looks perfect from far away" and the five photographers featured in this show explore a world seen from this same spectacular vantage point. Whether they attempt to transmit a narrative or not, they radiate a sense of great magnitude; the world appears immense and yet wholly intimate and personal. Standing on the edge of the photograph, the viewer feels fierce and full of possibility. The unbounded horizon has always stood as metaphor for the limitless nature of personal experience, inviting explorers and wanderers betokened by the grandeur of the expansive landscape.
Such Great Heights, speaks of an idyllic euphoria, a dizzying love affair, always aggressive, leaving you on a peak you are reluctant to depart: "They will see us waving from such great heights/ 'come down now,' they'll say / But everything looks perfect from far away, / 'come down now,' but we'll stay." The photographs included in this exhibition share this same intoxication.
In his essay, "Truth and Landscape'' Robert Adams states that landscape art is important because it can meet our need to experience the world as comprehensible: ''We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. It is the fitness of a landscape to one's experience of life's condition and possibilities that finally makes a scene important or not."
Carrie Haddad Photographs is located at 318 Warren Street in Hudson, NY. Gallery hours are from 10 am to 9pm Thursday through Saturday, 10 am to 6pm Sunday and Monday. For more information please call the gallery at 518-828-7655 (we will not be answering this phone number until the week of November 23rd!) or visit www.carriehaddadgallery.com
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