Fine Print: Manhattan, 2001 Signature Drop

Fine Print: Manhattan, 2001 Signature DropHarry Gruyaert is known for his extraordinary photographic work with color. Born in Antwerp in 1941, he originally dreamed of becoming a film director. In the late 1970s, Pop art and a trip to Morocco inspired him to become one of the first photographers in Europe to devote his work entirely to color photography. Gruyaerts cinematographic background instilled in him an aesthetic conception of photography. Rather than telling stories or documenting the

and some foreign television crews

the faint spread of stretch marks across the waist

“In those days there were practically no movie cameras

both forensic and imaginative

Death of a loyalist militiaman

and others that followed his non-violent approach

he soon turned his strong vision inward

mounted in a hardcover folio

This unfolds in his poetic trademark of overexposed figures that appear simultaneously angelic and ghostly

when the town’s tech-savvy youths posed as American political news portals and flooded the internet with clickbait articles

bearing witness to the tumultuous events

communists and liberals formed to fight the rising tide of fascism in the inter-war period