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July 3rd — August 30th, 2008
Opening Reception
Saturday July 12th
1:00 - 5:00pm
Lucienne Allen, grand-daughter of Lucienne Bloch will be
present to share her grandmother's stories.
Scott Nichols Gallery is proud to announce our latest exhibition Frida & Diego, A Personal Memoir, Photographs by Lucienne Bloch. Celebrating the centennial of Kahlo's birth and coinciding with San Francisco MOMA's Frida Kahlo exhibit, this show reveals a collection of personal and intimate photographs taken by artist Lucienne Bloch over a three year period in the early 1930's. This is the first exhibition to show this work in the Bay Area.
Lucienne Bloch and Frida Kahlo met in New York City in 1931. Originally hired by Diego Rivera as an assistant to grind colors for his political frescoes, Bloch was befriended by Kahlo and quickly developed a kinship and strong bond with her. Their independent spirits and shared scorn for the social dichotomy of the Depression era in which they lived inspired Bloch to hide her Leica in her blouse, and steal past security guards at The Rockefeller Center and make the only photographic record of Rivera's controversial mural before it was destroyed. The photographs resulting from her three years spent traveling with Frida & Diego, reveal poignant moments between the two women and the fierce creative spirit that they shared.
"Bloch shows the multiplicity of "Frida", confidante, and god-mother to her first born son: the cool artist smoking beneath one of her ubiquitous self-portraits, the good times girl with doily whimsically plopped on her head, the devoted wife, [to] Rivera, the object of her lifelong passion."
— By Meg McConahey, Santa Rosa Press Democrat |
Lucienne Bloch, Frida in Front
of the Unfinished Unity Panel,
New Worker's School,
New York, 1933 |
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Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo,
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Imogen Cunningham, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand,
Brett Weston, Edward Weston, and Reid Yalom.
July 3rd — August 30th, 2008
Scott Nichols Gallery will concurrently present photographs by contemporaries of Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera who photographed in Mexico. Amongst these will be rare and vintage photographs as well as a selection of work by San Francisco based photographer, Reid Yalom. |
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Edward Weston,
Diego Rivera, 1924 |
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo,
Portrait of the Eternal, 1935 |
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Paul Strand, Gateway,
Hidalgo, 1933 |
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July 3rd — August 30th, 2008
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The Scott Nichols Gallery is proud to present The Summer Online Show III, a selection of photographs from the gallery's collection. Included in the show are over 100 vintage and contemporary prints by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Imogen Cunningham, Monica Denevan, William Garnett, Lucy Goodhart, Rolfe Horn, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon, Barbara Morgan, Michael Rauner, George Tice, Brett Weston, Edward Weston and others. |
Ron Church, Watching the Waves, Waiema Bay, 1962 |
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