DATE: March 13, 2009
Gail Albert Halaban, Out My Window, Upper East Side, 1438 Third Avenue, 2008.
©Gail Albert Halaban, Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York.
The creation of these photographs was funded in part by the Design Trust for Public Space.A man plays with his dog; a young couple cuddle with their baby; the solitary stand in Hopperesque isolation. The fact that Halaban has staged these moments doesn't make them any less resonant of the contradictory impulses of metropolitan life: the desire to connect and the need to be left alone. Voyeurs will be frustrated by Halaban's polite scenarios, but she's playing the good neighbor.
From The New Yorker.
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Review: Gail Albert Halaban at Robert Mann
Like so many New Yorkers, Halaban can't help staring into her neighbors' windows, but she's made an art of it. Most of her big color photographs are views across streets, alleyways, or airshafts into apartments.
Gail Albert Halaban, Out My Window, Upper East Side, 1438 Third Avenue, 2008.
©Gail Albert Halaban, Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York.
The creation of these photographs was funded in part by the Design Trust for Public Space.From The New Yorker.
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