COREY ARNOLD
Fishing with My Dad 1978 to 1995
October 15 to November 27, 2011
Ampersand is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs curated by Portland photographer, Corey Arnold. The show is a collaboration of sorts between Corey & his father, Chris Arnold, who made several of these photographs throughout his son’s childhood as he grew up an avid sport fisherman in Southern California. The photographs speak to the fact that fishing & story telling go hand in hand & that cameras & their snapshots have historically served to verify the truth of often questionable narratives. Recently published by Nazraeli Press in One Picture Book #69, the photographs also record the trajectory of a life in which fishing & photography have never been far apart. Indeed, Arnold is best known for his ongoing photographic project entitled Fish-Work, which chronicles commercial fishing throughout the world. He brings to this body of work not only his own firsthand experience as an Alaskan commercial fisherman; but a life-long passion for fishing, the roots of which we see here in snapshots that were made while fishing with his dad.
View Corey Arnold’s website here.
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Corey Arnold
ampersand
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Corey Arnold's photographs have been exhibited worldwide. He is represented by Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland & Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica. His first book, Fish-Work: The Bering Sea (2010), was named one of the best photo books of the year by PDN & American Photo magazines. He has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Esquire, Whitewall, Outside, Juxtapoz, Art Ltd & Italian Rolling Stone; was chosen for the 2010 Portland Biennial & named one of PDN's 30 top emerging photographers in 2009.
Photographs sold as archival pigment prints, each in an edition of eight. $225 for print. $275 as framed.
Please inquire to purchase.
Installation views here.