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Photography in the Raw
The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own.
The Japanese artist Ichiwo Sugino achieves his impersonations in “Photo Brut” mostly with adhesive tape and posts them on his Instagram account. Subjects include cultural figures from Thomas Edison to Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Andy Warhol.Credit.Ichiwo Sugino
Feb. 4, 2021
It’s great that the American Folk Art Museum doesn’t charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark exhibition “Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie.”
This jaw-dropping, sometimes heart-rending show a larger version of which was seen at a photography festival in Arles, France, last summer is a cornucopia of established and unfamiliar names, from the celebrated Henry Darger to the all-but-unknown Ichiwo Sugino; improvised mediums and often painful stories of isolated l
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Ichiwo Sugino. Except as noted, photographs courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
Difficult times for the American Folk Art Museum went public in 2011, when its building, a gem by the architects’ Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, was sold to the Museum of Modern Art. Despite much vocal opposition, MoMA eventually reduced that gem to rubble in 2014, making way for nothing comparable on 53rd Street. So much for the legacy of the brave little folk art museum? Not at all. Even during its darkest days, the museum soldiered on with solid exhibitions in its tidy galleries at 2 Lincoln Square, and then, in 2015, roared back with something more surprising, pathbreaking, and revelatory than anything MoMA can claim to have done.
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A detail of one of the photographs taken by the unnamed civil servant (Christian Berst Gallery)
H
e was an unsung genius toiling in obscurity, dedicated to his art and his beloved mother, upon whose death he took his own life.
Or was he a dirty old man who for years sneaked around Paris cafes, shops, and streets, secretly photographing women’s legs?
Whatever the truth, his oeuvre is now on display in a Paris art gallery and is making a tidy sum for the gallery owner.
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