Bookstore Project Space: Opening, Artist Reception, and Book Signing Saturday February 26th – Karen Kuehn: Maverick Camera

photo-eye Bookstore Project Space Bookstore Project Space Exhibition – Karen Kuehn: Maverick Camera photo-eye welcomes Karen Kuehn to our Bookstore Project Space for an Exhibition Opening and Book Signing from 3 – 5pm on Saturday, February 25th.

Maverick Camera
KAREN KUEHN

BOOK SIGNING & EXHIBITION OPENING
Saturday, February 25th, 2017 3–5pm

photo-eye Bookstore Project Space
376 Garcia Street
Suite A
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-988-5152 x 201

ABOUT THE EVENT

photo-eye welcomes Karen Kuehn to our Bookstore Project Space for an Exhibition Opening and Book Signing from 3 – 5pm on Saturday, February 25th. Kuehn will be present to sign copies of her latest monograph Maverick Camera, a collection of color and black-and-white photographs released in 2016 by FARMHOUSE Girl Productions. A selection of works by Kuehn from Maverick Camera will be on view in the Bookstore Project Space through Saturday, April 29th, 2017.


ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Maverick Camera is a collection of Karen Kuehn’s work primarily centered on her time as a professional photographer in New York City. Previously a Ranger for the US park service in Montana, Kuehn arrived in NYC in the late 1980’s just as The Factory, Interview Magazine, and Punk Rock were exploding on the scene. Maverick Camera is a memoir of sorts, where personal recollections and anecdotes mix with images lending an intimacy to the book while giving readers insight as to how a particular model or experience affected Kuehn. Karen’s beliefs, desires, and interests are delineated in her poetic text but also illustrated in her images, as Reid Callanan of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops states:

“…Karen is one of my favorite portrait photographers because her portraits express an unwavering belief in the goodness of people. Her portraits reveal as much about her worldview as they do about the person sitting, standing, leaning or jumping in front of her lens.” 

The Bookstore Project Space exhibition includes black-and-white celebrity portraits from Kuehn’s time working in New York City, including Bill Murray, Brian Eno, Cher, The B-52’s, James Taylor, Robin Williams, and Tom Hanks among others.

Cher, 1989 – © Karen Kuehn

Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live, 1987 – © Karen Kuehn

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Karen Kuehn is a photographer with a knack for seeing with a unique point of view. The past 25 years and her images have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, People, The New York Times, National Geographic, and numerous other publications. In her personal projects, she is committed to documenting and preserving aspects of Americans, viewing each as an individual. Karen lives and works on a small farm in Peralta, New Mexico.

• Purchase a Signed Copy of the Maverick Camera Book •

For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Lucas Shaffer at 505-988-5152 x 114 or lucas@photoeye.com