Laurence Bach
Nightspells
Photography @ Zygos Gallery, Washington, D.C.
From June 2-29, 1987, Zygos Gallery in collaboration with Dolan/Maxwell Gallery of Philadelphia, presented "Nightspells", the excellent portfolio of photographs by American photographer Laurence Bach. "The mystery of the night is challenged by the harsh, unyielding light of Paros, one of the Greek islands where the artist has spent his summers since 1970". Bach's photographs made from a 4 x 5" negative and printed approximately 20 x 24", are most powerful and impressive in their ability to convince the viewer that the impossible he has invented really does exist.
Laurence Bach was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1047. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art with Ray Metzker and at the Allegemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland with Armin Hofmann and Max Mathys. He has taught at the Aegean School of Fine Arts in Paros, Moore College of Art, SUNY/College at Purchase and then at the Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts as Chairman of the Graphic Design Dept. Bach has been the recipient of a Faculty Research Fellowship from DUNY, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant for the publication of the Paros Dream Book; an artists' grant from the Polaroid Corporation and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Photography.
Laurence Bach was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1047. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art with Ray Metzker and at the Allegemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland with Armin Hofmann and Max Mathys. He has taught at the Aegean School of Fine Arts in Paros, Moore College of Art, SUNY/College at Purchase and then at the Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts as Chairman of the Graphic Design Dept. Bach has been the recipient of a Faculty Research Fellowship from DUNY, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant for the publication of the Paros Dream Book; an artists' grant from the Polaroid Corporation and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Photography.
"Nightspells #3, 20 x 24", 1987, photograph by Laurence Bach.
"Nightspells #13, 20 x 24", 1987, photograph by Laurence Bach.
"Nightspells #9, 20 x 24", 1987, photograph by Laurence Bach.
