The Gallery at Burlington College Presents
Summer of Love, the Photographs of Nathan Farb
Opening Reception and Talk by Nathan Farb.
Friday, November 2, 5:00 p.m.
Summer of Love, Nathan Farb’s photographic journal of the East Village during the late sixties, opens at the Gallery at Burlington College on Friday, November 2, at 5 pm. The artist will give a gallery talk and answer questions between 6 and 7 pm. Summer of Love will be the featured exhibit at the Gallery at Burlington College the entire month of November.
Farb is considered the preeminent photographer of the Adirondacks, yet he began his career in 1966 by photographing the emerging hippie counter culture growing and focusing itself around New York’s Tompkins Square Park. Summer of Love is a visual journal of Farb’s first years as a photographer and the simultaneous emergence of the East Village as a cauldron of American counter culture and workplace of cultural icons such as the photographer Diane Arbus and the poet Allan Ginsburg. Farb’s photographs depict the culture clash between the seekers of a new and better way to live who would become known as “New Agers,” and what was left of the Lower East Side way of life as the portal to America for waves of European immigrants.
Farb’s new wave journalism of that period has been seen throughout the world. Farb says at the time he was trying to construct a new form, something of a cross between a novel and the traditional photographic essay. Farb produced a powerful and important document of the times through the lens of a young artist’s first works, taken before he achieved fame as a nature photographer, published his books, and displayed his work at the Museum of Modern Art and New York Public Library. As he turned on, tuned in, and dropped into the world flower children, and drugs, and murder, Farb simultaneously reported on and participated in the revolutionary counter-culture that would profoundly change American culture.
Farb grew up across the lake in The Adirondacks and he maintains a studio in Jay, NY. He has many friends in the Burlington area and this is his first Burlington show.
This exhibition was put together with generous support from Paul Frank and Collins, PC and St. Lawrence University.
Farb can be contacted for interviews at (917) 572-5680.
Reviews of Summer of Love
“Wonderful…everything we see is nature, and these indelible images from our murky cultural past will stand with anything Farb has done."
— Chris Shaw, Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism.
“Farb is generous toward his subjects without romanticizing them.”
— Martha Swan, Executive Director of John Brown Lives.
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