Poland: From Romanticism to Kitsch
Robert Walker
January 19 to February 29, 1996
| After having walked the streets of New York, Montreal and many other
cities, Robert Walker wandered through Warsaw, and other regions of Poland.
The same atmosphere seems to prevail everywhere. American Blues or European
elegy : it's all the same. The world has become a vast shopping centre.
People occupy a corner of land which seems to reject them.
In Warsaw, Walker draws our attention to Cricoland, an itinerate Luna
Park, and a German one at that. —Michel Denée |
| Biography Robert Walker was born in Montreal in 1945. He graduated from Sir George Williams University in 1969 where he studied painting. Although self-trained as a photographer, he participated in photography workshops given by Lee Friedlander and Gary Winogrand. In 1978, he moved to New York City where he lived and worked for ten years. The results of this period were published by Oxford University Press in a book titled New York Inside Out, with an introduction by William S. Burroughs. In 1980, he was commissioned by Columbia Pictures to document the making of the John Huston film Annie, for publication in the book Annie on Camera. He has participated in several major exhibitions including Color as Form: a History of Color Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester; Personal Choice: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Color in the Street, California Museum of Photography; New American Photographs, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and New York: The City and it's People, Beijing Workers Cultural Palace, China. In Montreal, he is represented by Galerie Christiane Chassay. |
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