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Did he too believe, as he made his solitary way through the streets of pre-industrial Paris, that "everything had changed"? Atget's early twentieth-century Paris was still a city full of dusty light and robust trees and little gardens and cobblestone courtyards and medieval ornamentation.
By virtue of walking through fields and streets, and focusing on the small and the unexpected, and conferring attention on the helter-skelter juxtapositions of time and space, the photographer reminds us that the actual world is full of surprises, which is exactly what most people, imprisoned in habit and devoted to the familiar, tend to forget.
The Hedgehog Review: Our forthcoming fall issue includes a photo essay with the work of, among others, American photographer John Rosenthal. John, please describe your background and how you came to photography.
But we can focus on one of them, John Rosenthal, who in many ways is the ideal representative for them all. For decades Rosenthal has defined what it means to see the world through an artist’s eyes, and, as both a writer and a photographer, he lays claim to a unique perch, capturing existence through the lens of a camera and the lens of language.
As a young photographer based in Chapel Hill, John Rosenthal would travel with his Pentax camera to New York City where Manhattan, like the cobblestone streets of the Marais for Eugene Atget, offered endless possibilities.
Oct 1, 2023 · GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art opens a retrospective exhibition of photographs by John Rosenthal entitled LIVING IN THE ORDINARY WORLD on July 22, running through November 4, 2023. Finding the luminous in ordinary things has been a pursuit for Rosenthal for five decades.
John Rosenthal. John Rosenthal’s photographs have been exhibited throughout the Northeast and South. His one-person shows include exhibits at the National Humanities Center; the Asheville Museum of Art; the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Duke; the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland ...
