| Dates: | 1957 - | | Born: | US, NY, New York City | | Active: | US / Canada / Iceland / Italy / Norway / New Zealand / Scotland / Greece | | Website: | www.kosoff.com |
American contemporary photographer.
Artist statement:
I don’t really have an artistic statement. That’s why I produce images. I believe they should stand for themselves and I shouldn’t have any need to explain myself, or them. Maybe that’s old school but if I needed the written word to express myself I’d be a writer.
After having spent 30 years producing photographs on assignment for magazines and advertisements I choose to photograph whatever it is that catches my eye that day. Having been cooped up in a studio for 3 decades I happen to prefer landscape now. It’s very different than contriving photographs and I like having to adapt to what I have been presented, rather than having the complete control I was accustomed to in the studio.
One thing I have noticed in the time I have been doing landscape photography, we’re losing our planet to the strip mall and parking lot. And while one of my early requirements in my landscape work was to produce work without the hand of man appearing in the scene, that requirement proved unrealistic. You can find the presence of Man in even the most unlikely of places. Some of my newer work embraces that unfortunate reality.
Hmmm, maybe I do have an artist’s statement after all.
(August 2009)Preparing biographies
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Solo or Two Person Shows
2008-2009 Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007-2008 Gallery 270, Westwood, NJ
2007-2008 Iris Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2006-2007 Photographers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006-2007 Gallery 270, Westwood, NJ
2006 Indian Hill Gallery, Wells, VT
2005 June Bateman Gallery, NYC, NY
2003 Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX
2003 The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI
2002 Edward Carter Gallery, NYC, NY
2001 Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY
Group Shows
2007 “We All Live in Bordertowns”, Migration Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Group Show, Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 “The Black & White Photograph”, Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Director’s Choice, The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI
2005 “Objects Of Desire”, June Bateman Gallery, NYC, NY
2005 “Moore, Christopher, Kosoff”, Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 “Leipzig, Plowden, Kosoff”, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 “Terrain”, Tatar Gallery, Toronto, CA
2003 “Fire & Ice”, Edward Carter Gallery, NYC, NY
2003 “In the Stillness of Time”, JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Delicate Objects”,Jne Bateman Gallery, NYC, NY
2002 “Visions of Iceland”, The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI
2001 “America the Beautiful”, Edward Carter Gallery, NYC, NY
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