Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. presents Summer's Almost Gone, an exhibition celebrating summer and the memories that remain. We all have recollections of summertime - laying by the pool, hot days and sticky nights, lazy days on the beach, a cool breeze from the ocean, beating the heat of the city, the smell of wet grass, exotic travels, and family trips that will always be remembered whether good or bad.

The photographs in this exhibition bring some of those memories back to us through the eyes of these photographers. Some have traveled to far off distant lands, some to their own backyards. All have been able to capture the moments of summer that are held in our memories.

The works in the exhibition range from Stieglitz's intimate portrait of a mother and child at Lake George in 1920, through the decades to contemporary photographers' interpretations of summer and its activities. Todd Webb shows us children at play in the streets of Harlem in the 1950's - a joyous look of summer in the city. Nino Migliori, in 1951 offers us a glimpse of the perfect dive. Harry Lapow documented Coney Island in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's capturing the essence of New Yorkers on the beach and under the boardwalk. David Scheinbaum's images of Miami Beach in the 1970's before its gentrification, documents the retirees who made Florida their home. Ocean themes continue with Elliott Erwitt's photograph of group exercise on the beach in Germany. Using early photographic processes, both the Ambrotype and Tintype, Joni Sternbach is able to make the modern surfer look like a figure from another time.

Away from the beach we have scenes of serenity and calm. Eliot Porter, although more known for his work in color, worked extensively in black & white in the late 1930's and early 1940's. His beautiful photographs from Penobscot Bay in Maine are gems - blending land and sea. Ralph Steiner in his Rural American Baroque photograph of a rocking chair on a porch evokes the memories of relaxation and times gone by. Janet Russek's contemporary images of empty chairs waiting to be filled call to each of us to take a seat and look out on the natural world.

The traveling vacation is spotlighted by Mark Mann, Patrick Nagatani, Richard Misrach and Jamey Stillings. Mann, who plays with memories using old postcards of motels in the American 1960's and 70's, shows us the Kodachrome vacation. Patrick Nagatani uses found images from the American Southwest for his mixed-media studies. Richard Misrach captures the sky above the San Francisco Bay and the Pyramids of Egypt. Finally, Jamey Stillings reminds us what it is like to be a child again - taking that great leap of faith into the waiting water.

Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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For more information contact:
Janet Russek, David Scheinbaum or Andra Russek
at 505-988-5116. or reach us by email at srltd(@)photographydealers.com.