exhibition

Nat Finkelstein: From One Extreme to the Other

20.Jan.10 - 14.Feb.10
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat&Sun 12-5pm.
£ Free, Free advance, Free concession

Idea Generation Gallery
Idea Generation Ltd
11 Chance Street
London
London E2 7JB
020 7749 6850
rachel.wood@ideageneration.co.uk
www.ideageneration.co.uk
Tube Old Street, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Nat Finkelstein was one of the most respected photojournalists of modern times. Renowned for his iconic and intimate documentation of Andy Warhol’s infamous Factory, and later for his political activism including an allegiance with The Black Panthers that forced him to live abroad for 15 years, Finkelstein remained at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist up until his death aged 76, 2nd October 2009.

Finkelstein captured all the Factory’s faithful inhabitants, who famously included Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and of course Warhol himself, as well as the luminaries whose cultural factions merely collided with the Factory set – Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan and more. His images presented one of the most comprehensive and intimate insights into this exclusive world ever seen: from some of the most intimate and unguarded photographs of Warhol, to hauntingly soul-capturing photographs of Sedgwick and the moment where Warhol met Dylan.

Co-curated by Nat Finkelstein’s widow Elizabeth, IG Gallery’s retrospective brings together Finkelstein’s diverse portfolio of work achieved across five decades: from the Factory scenes, to the civil rights and anti-war protests of mid-60s America, to his continuing exploration of the subcultures of 80s and 90s New York; Nat’s photographs not only depict their subjects and scenes, but also provide a visual record of the life and times of the photographer himself.