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This video is part 1 of 2 (part 2 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNMRFd...
Opening night at the Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. Sam Cher...
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This video is part 1 of 2 (part 2 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNMRFd...
Opening night at the Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. Sam Cherry's son, poet Neeli Cherkovski, is discussing his father's photography and his relationship with Charles Bukowski. This exhibit ran concurrently with a William S. Burroughs exhibit.
Here's the text from Track 16's website:
Sam Cherry:
Photographs of Charles Bukowski, The Black Cat, and Skid Row
April 4 May 2, 2009
Track 16 is pleased to present Sam Cherry: Photographs of Charles Bukowski, The Black Cat, and Skid Row. The exhibition runs from April 4 to May 2, 2009, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 4 from 6 to 9 PM.
Sam Cherrys Photographs of Charles Bukowski, The Black Cat, and Skid Row take the viewer on an historical journey through intimate moments with Charles Bukowski, the 1940s Bohemian scene at The Black Cat Café (San Franciscos hub for the creative), and Los Angeles Skid Row in the 1980s.
Cherry was born in 1913 in Philadephia, the son of Russian emigrants who barely escaped persecution in the Ukraine. His father a tailor, dabbled in bootlegging whiskey in their basement. Eventually he was caught and jailed, and the entire family fled to Los Angeles where they lived in poverty for many years in Hollywood.
At the age of 16, Sam joined the ranks of thousands of downtrodden men and youth around the country, and hit the rails. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he picked up a camera and began to capture the Great Depression the down and out, the hungry, the vulnerable, crooked cops, religious fanatics, and Hobo Jungles. With a keen sense for composition and humanity, Sam turned his attention toward documenting his own pre-Beat Generation Bohemian scene at the The Black Cat Café in San Francisco, an establishment that encouraged a creative and lively environment frequented by artists, writers and the fringe element.
Years later, through mutual friends, Sam was introduced to the writer Charles Bukowski, who once stated that Sam Cherrys tough character was an influential component in his creation of his own tough guy persona and protagonists. Cherrys son, poet Neeli Cherkovski, and Bukowski became life-long friends, eventually starting their own literary magazine together. (Neeli would later write Bukowskis biography). Sam and Neeli spent a great deal of time with Bukowski, during which Cherry captured took some of Bukowskis most iconic images. In the early 1960s Sam opened up Cherrys Bookstore and Art Gallery, an intellectual and artistic sanctuary in San Bernardino, well-known as a stopover for hippies and cultural explorers traveling along route 66.
During the 1970s, Sam spent a great deal of time documenting the destruction of the California citrus industry- perhaps the only photographic study of this important change in California History. In the 1980s, Cherry spent time documenting Los Angeles Skid Row, photographing the new homeless a modern-day Depression and a mirror of his youth. Cherrys photographic archive also includes portraits of artist/writer friends like Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso, as well as important California historical figures such as Cesar Chavez and Jerry Brown.
Track 16 Gallery & Smart Art Press will publish seventeen portfolios of Sam Cherrys photographs of Charles Bukowski. The portfolio/prints will be available in two sizes, 16 x 20 in., Edition of 12, and 11 x 14 in., Edition of 5. Each will contain eleven silver gelatin prints, signed and numbered. The 11 x 14 in. portfolio will come in a hand-made box.
The exhibition will be shown concurrently with Malcolm McNeill and William S. Burroughs: The Lost Art of Ah POOK IS HERE. For more information, please visit our website at www.track16.com.
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CheeRs, ~SeB~