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Book Signing and Conversation with Manfred Heiting and Richard Ehrlich

23 Oct 2021

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Sat, 23 Oct
15:00 – 17:00

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Book Signing and Conversation with Manfred Heiting and Richard Ehrlich -- October 23 at 3 PM 2525 Michigan Ave, Ste B7, Santa Monica, CA

About

Manfred Heiting is an internationally acknowledged curator, writer, designer and renowned collector of photographs and photobooks; he lives and works in Los Angeles. He is a founding member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and a UCLA Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities since 2016.

His recent publication through Steidl, ‘Shigeru Onishi: A Mathematical Proposition’ presents an overview of the avant-garde photographic work by Shigeru Onishi created in the 1950’s. Heiting discovered Onishi at a gallery in Japan and soon dove into his philosophies and photographic creations. Onishi utilized unorthodox printing methods such as coating photographic paper with a brush and creating discoloration with acetic acid, which resulted in intentional and unique pieces of work. His interest, in his words, was the visual “formation of ideas,” and bringing out “the flavors of the image as they change.”  To do so, he embraced all aspects of chance involved in the photographic process.

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Richard Ehrlich is an internationally recognized fine art photographer held in esteemed public and private collections, including twenty permanent museum collections. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

His recent publication, ‘The Arolsen Holocaust Archive’ showcases the first photographic recordings of the interiors of the Arolsen Holocaust Archive, the largest archive on the Holocaust. Ehrlich was invited by the Archive to be the very first person to photographically capture the space and its records, which chronicle the history of the Nazi repository containing voluminous prisoner records from World War II. These document in excruciating exactitude the Nazi Campaign to murder millions and eradicate European Jewry and other minorities the Nazi regime deemed as ‘less than.’ The J. Paul Getty Museum houses the seminal original portfolio.

This publication includes a foreward from the artist, a preface from Reto Meister, former director of the International Tracing Service, an Introduction by Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, PhD, and edited and designed by Manfred Heiting. 

'Homage to Rothko'

Ehrlich's recent publication 'Homage To Rothko: Abstract Sublime' showcases an extensive collection of works that focuses on the abstraction and constant re-invention of photography as an art form. In collaboration with R. Mac Holbert, Ehrlich created a series of montages composed from original Malibu sky images as an Homage to Mark Rothko. As said in the introduction to the book "photography is dead, long live photography," which underscores the "inexorable migration of photography into the digital era." 

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We hope you will join us for this book signing and conversation. Kindly reach out to sophi@rosegallery.net with any inquiries or to RSVP.

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Manfred Heiting

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Richard Ehrlich

Shigeru Onishi

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