| Allen Tannenbaum Gets Photographically Intimate With John and Yoko |
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Allan Tannenbaum: John and Yoko and New York in the 70sOct. 4-Nov. 3, 2007Opening: Oct. 4, 6 pm-8 pm Steven Kasher Gallery 521 W. 23rd St., 2nd floor, (Just west of the Half King and 10th Avenue) 212-966-3978 stevenkasher.com  Allan Tannenbaum's "John and Yoko: A New York Love Story"  "John Playing Air Guitar" (1980) by Allan Tannenbaum  "John and Yoko in Kimonos on Pedestal" (1980) by Allan Tannenbaum In November of 1980, just before John Lennon’s untimely murder, photographer Allan Tannenbaum had unique and total access to John and Yoko, who were emerging from five years of seclusion. As one of the few photographers with whom John and Yoko were close, Tannenbaum was privileged to be able to capture many intimate moments between the two. The resulting photographs, many of which have never before been available to the public, portray a couple deeply in love. They are playful, spiritual, and remarkably at home as they express their feelings for each other in front of Allan’s camera. While he was chief photographer and photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News, Allan Tannenbaum made a remarkable body of work that documents New York in the 70s, a crucial chapter in New York City’s history. These black and white photographs capture the heady exuberance of the 1970s and early 1980s. SoHo culture and the art world were his primary subjects; the images also provide a broad chronicle of the city’s politics and uptown society too. The music scene and night life – from the Mudd Club and CBGB to Studio 54 – are a featured part of the mix. The collision of continuing 1960s counterculture with the stagnant city economy was a catalytic force that resulted in an explosion of creativity. By photographing everything from street gangs to disco divas, from the homeless to Hollywood stars, Tannenbaum assembled a personal diary of his journey through a painful and incandescent era in New York. |
