People Take Pictures of Each Other
Simon and Jessica kissing in the pool, Avignon, 2001
© Nan Goldin
If you’re in the Boston area, you have until tomorrow to see “People Take Pictures of Each Other” before it closes at LaMontagne Gallery. The title of the show is borrowed from a song written by Ray Davies for his band The Kinks.
The exhibition was full of photographers that I admire: Richard Aldrich, David Armstrong, Gil Blank, Larry Clark, Anne Collier, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, William Eggleston, Roe Ethridge, William Gedney, Nan Goldin, Wayne Gonzales, Dana Hoey, Peter Hujar, Alex Katz, Judy Linn, Tim Lokiec, Ryan McGinley, Mark Morrisroe, Alice Neel, Catherine Opie, Paul P., Elizabeth Peyton, Walter Pfeiffer, Jack Pierson, Torbjorn Rodland, Tom Sandberg, Collier Schorr, Stephen Shore, Shellburne Thurber, and Wolfgang Tillmans. In addition to photographs, there were also drawings and paintings of people with whom the artists were close to. A very simple concept that made for a really nice, intimate group show. And I’ll say this: it was worth biking through bad weather for.People take pictures of each other, Just to prove that they really existed, Just to prove that they really existed, People take pictures of each other, And the moment to last them forever, Of the time when they mattered to someone.