photos of Frank Horvat at the In camera gallery

The exhibition ” New York Up & Down »At the In camera gallery in Paris, presents a series of color photographs by Frank Horvat devoted to New York: prints from the 1980s which reflect all the exuberance of this city-world and its power of attraction. These photos are part of one of three photographic projects undertaken without commission by Frank Horvat from 1976, when the news magazines for which he works are going through a period of crisis.

“New York Up & Down”: photographs by Frank Horvat at the In camera gallery

To photograph New York, Frank Horvat chose color, to thwart any nostalgia, any aestheticism that is too obvious and repeated, but also to embark on an experience. It is this same original research that led the French photographer to choose “bad seasons, winter or summer, when it was too cold or too hot”. It is from discomfort that his lucid and authentic images of New York were born: the city is captured there without pretense, with its share of brutality and its visual profusion.

Frank Horvat photographs 1980s New York in color

By photographing “New York Up & Down”, Frank Horvat is especially interested in strangers he crosses at random on the streets and subway stations of Manhattan. However, it is less the faces or the particular situations that he seeks to capture than “the accuracy of the composition”: the individuals are an integral part of reality and the scene anchored in its natural environment. Whatever the subjects immortalized by Frank Horvat, his photographs, by their details, have the gift of suggesting the off-camera; they are always open to the city and to life and act as the beginnings of stories that engage the spectator’s imagination.

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