Exhibition: 4&20 - Photographs by Chris Killip

Amador Gallery, 41 E. 57th St., NY 10022

September 15-November 13

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Amador Gallery proudly presents the work of Chris Killip, one of the most influential photographers to have come from Great Britain.  This will be Killip's first one-man exhibition in the USA.
Killip's work is widely praised as the most acute depiction of the human cost to Britain's process of de-industrialization.  The Twenty-four images in this exhibition, from 1974-88, are primarily from the North of England and cover the tenure of four very different Prime Ministers: Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.
"The term 'poetic document' to describe Killip's work has perhaps never been more apt, for as Ian Jeffry has written, Killip would seem to be no programmed sociologist, nor even much of a social observer.  He is, rather, suggests Jeffry, a storyteller, concerned primarily with the fabric of things, of life lodged in matter.  However his sense of one is completed only by a sense of the other." (Gerry Badger, The Photobook, Vol 2)
Chris Killip was born in 1946 on the Isle of Man.  He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Henri Cartier Bresson award, and his work is featured in the collections of major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.  The author of five books, including the highly acclaimed In Flagrante, 1988, which was reproduced by Errata Editions in their series on the photo-book, in 2009.  He is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991.
In 2012 Killip will have a retrospective exhibition of his work curated by Ute Eskildsen at the Folkwang Museum in Essen.  Many of the images that will be included in the retrospective, as well as in this exhibition, have never been exhibited or published before.
Amadore Gallery is located in the landmark Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street on the 6th floor.  Gallery hours are 11-6 Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment.  For additional information, please contact the gallery at 212-759-6740, or visit www.amadorgallery.com

The exhibition 4&20 - Photographs by Chris Killip will also be shown in Boston at Howard Yezerski Gallery, 460 Harrison Avenue.  Opening on November 12 2010, through January 4, 2011.