"My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history.“ Stein explores the paradoxical relationship between man and the natural world: The primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance refer to our modern every day life.
The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from American provincial life. In the photo above Stein shows how not only humans have been tricked by the industrialized world. The street lamp plays the moon and thus, the coyote is fooled.
By contrast, the setting of Halloween in Harlem is the City: kids are posing in colourful costumes in the streets of New York. With their unconscious commitment to the traditions and rituals of this typical American holiday, the protagonists appear proud and isolated at the same time.
Pool Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition of Amy Stein in Germany.
The New York based photographer has built up a successful career since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2006. She has been exhibited in a number of group shows immediately after graduating, won the 2006 Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize, has been named one of the world’s top 15 emerging photographers by American Photo magazine and won the Critical Mass Book Award in 2007.
Opening Reception
Friday 25. April 2008
19.00-23.00
Exhibition 26.April-24. May 2008
Opening Hours
Mo. - Fr. 12.00 - 20.00
Sa. 12.00 - 18.00
/ pool gallery
tucholskystr.38
10117 berlin germany
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