March 13, 2023 - May 27, 2023
With works by
Berenice Abbott
William Eggleston
Walker Evans
Fred Herzog
Geoffrey James
Vivian Maier
George Tice
In collaboration with Westbank’s Pacific Gallery at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Paying Attention, a group exhibition featuring the work of Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Vivian Maier and George Tice. This exhibition looks at photographers whose work articulates fleeting, often overlooked moments in the evolution of their urban environments during periods of rapid growth and transition. Spanning several cities over the past 100 years, these photographers are united in the understanding that what is most familiar in modern life is often what is most impermanent, and its significance may only be felt once it has disappeared.
As wanderers through the city, the photographers in this exhibition utilize varying aesthetic strategies to present an alchemy of past, present, and future within a single image. From Berenice Abbott’s striking architectural images of New York City in the 1930s to Fred Herzog’s early colour scenes of a growing Vancouver on the precipice of modernity in the 1950s, the photographers in Paying Attention each explore the large and small ways our environments are shaped and reshaped over time.
Presented by Equinox Gallery for the Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver.
Installation View, 2023
Installation View, 2023
Installation View, 2023
Installation View, 2023
Fred Herzog
Hub & Lux
1958Archival pigment printEdition of 20
Fred Herzog
Arthur Murray
1960Archival pigment printEdition of 20
Fred Herzog
Hastings & Carrall
1968Archival pigment printEdition of 20
Fred Herzog
Granville Street from Granville Bridge
1966Archival pigment printEdition of 20
Fred Herzog
Granville/Robson
1959Archival pigment printEdition of 20
Fred Herzog
Granville/Smythe
1959Archival pigment printEdition of 20
Vivian Maier
Chicago, 1962
1962, printed in 2019Chromogenic printEdition 12/15
Walker Evans
Chrysler Building Construction, New York
1930Silver print
Walker Evans
Fulton Fish Market Area, New York
c. 1934Silver print
Walker Evans
Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1935, printed c. 1976Silver print
Walker Evans
Ford River Rouge (Ford Train Cars and Smoke Stacks)
1947Silver print
George Tice
Petit’s Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, N.J.
1974Brovira/selenium-toned silver print
Geoffrey James
The Pantheon
2000Inkjet print on archival Baryta paper Edition of 3
Geoffrey James
Compressed Air Building
2000Inkjet print on archival Baryta paperEdition of 3
Geoffrey James
Rue Figuier
2000Inkjet print on archival Baryta paperEdition of 3
Berenice Abbott
Rothman's Pawnshop
c. 1935; printed in 1979Gelatin silver print