Robert Mann Gallery
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Robert Mann Gallery is a New York based fine art gallery specializing in photography, established in 1985. The gallery’s program includes exhibitions of vintage masterworks as well as installations of contemporary photography that contextualize and promote newer movements in the field. The gallery is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) where Mann has served on the executive board of directors for over 10 years.
Gallery owner Robert Mann's career began in 1977 when he started working with veteran dealer Harry Lunn at his gallery in Washington, D.C.,one of the first and few art galleries devoted to the exhibition and sales of fine art photography. After six years, by which time Mann had been promoted to gallery director, Mann decided to move back to New York City to take a job as the director of Light Gallery, legendary for launching the careers of such masters as Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Two years later, in 1985, Mann was ready to strike out on his own. Doing business as fotomann, inc, he started dealing privately on East 76th Street. Practitioners like Joe Deal, Richard Misrach and Aaron Siskind, whose trust he'd earned at Light Gallery, came along. Gradually Mann transitioned into a public space, expanded, and ultimately moved to Chelsea in 1999, where the gallery remains today at 210 Eleventh Avenue. The Robert Mann Gallery was the first photography gallery to move into the then new art neighborhood of Chelsea. With a 6000 square feet (557.4 m²) space it was also the largest photography gallery in New York at the time.
When the gallery relocated to Chelsea it expanded its roster with international mid-career and emerging photographic artists, reflecting its position within the heart of New York’s contemporary art scene.
Mann was the first New York dealer to exhibit Richard Misrach in the 1980s at Light Gallery and then at fotomann and Robert Mann Gallery. The gallery became well known for its close dealings with luminaries like O. Winston Link and Aaron Siskind, as well as its expertise in the markets of Ansel Adams and W. Eugene Smith. Significant historical exhibitions have included monographic shows of Ansel Adams, Ellen Auerbach and ringl+pit, Robert Frank, O. Winston Link, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith and Margaret Watkins. The gallery has been the long-time representative of well-known artists such as Jeff Brouws, Joe Deal, Wijnanda Deroo, Robbert Flick, Michael Kenna, Leo Rubinfien, Susan Rankaitis, Jem Southam, and Silvio Wolf, while also taking on younger artists like Gail Albert Halaban, Holly Andres, Julie Blackmon and Mary Mattingly.
The gallery has published catalogues of work by – among others – Wijnanda Deroo, Elijah Gowin, Chip Hooper, Artur Nikodem, Susan Rankaitis, and Aaron Siskind (The Fragmentation of Language, Vintage Works, Aaron Siskind 100).
Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams
, Gail Albert Halaban, Holly Andres, Diane Arbus, Ellen Auerbach, Julie Blackmon
, Jeff Brouws, Harry Callahan, Joe Deal, Wijnanda Deroo, Walker Evans
, Robbert Flick, Robert Frank, Masahisa Fukase, Leslie Gill, Elijah Gowin, Chip Hooper, Stephen Hughes, Michael Kenna, O. Winston Link, Mary Mattingly, Laurent Millet, Richard Misrach, Lisette Model
, Artur Nikodem, Charles Pratt, Susan Rankaitis, Man Ray, res, ringl+pit, Leo Rubinfien, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Jem Southam, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, David Vestal, Margaret Watkins, Weegee, Dan Weiner, Henry Wessel, Silvio Wolf
Gallery owner Robert Mann's career began in 1977 when he started working with veteran dealer Harry Lunn at his gallery in Washington, D.C.,one of the first and few art galleries devoted to the exhibition and sales of fine art photography. After six years, by which time Mann had been promoted to gallery director, Mann decided to move back to New York City to take a job as the director of Light Gallery, legendary for launching the careers of such masters as Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Two years later, in 1985, Mann was ready to strike out on his own. Doing business as fotomann, inc, he started dealing privately on East 76th Street. Practitioners like Joe Deal, Richard Misrach and Aaron Siskind, whose trust he'd earned at Light Gallery, came along. Gradually Mann transitioned into a public space, expanded, and ultimately moved to Chelsea in 1999, where the gallery remains today at 210 Eleventh Avenue. The Robert Mann Gallery was the first photography gallery to move into the then new art neighborhood of Chelsea. With a 6000 square feet (557.4 m²) space it was also the largest photography gallery in New York at the time.
When the gallery relocated to Chelsea it expanded its roster with international mid-career and emerging photographic artists, reflecting its position within the heart of New York’s contemporary art scene.
Mann was the first New York dealer to exhibit Richard Misrach in the 1980s at Light Gallery and then at fotomann and Robert Mann Gallery. The gallery became well known for its close dealings with luminaries like O. Winston Link and Aaron Siskind, as well as its expertise in the markets of Ansel Adams and W. Eugene Smith. Significant historical exhibitions have included monographic shows of Ansel Adams, Ellen Auerbach and ringl+pit, Robert Frank, O. Winston Link, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith and Margaret Watkins. The gallery has been the long-time representative of well-known artists such as Jeff Brouws, Joe Deal, Wijnanda Deroo, Robbert Flick, Michael Kenna, Leo Rubinfien, Susan Rankaitis, Jem Southam, and Silvio Wolf, while also taking on younger artists like Gail Albert Halaban, Holly Andres, Julie Blackmon and Mary Mattingly.
The gallery has published catalogues of work by – among others – Wijnanda Deroo, Elijah Gowin, Chip Hooper, Artur Nikodem, Susan Rankaitis, and Aaron Siskind (The Fragmentation of Language, Vintage Works, Aaron Siskind 100).
List of Exhibited Artists
Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
, Gail Albert Halaban, Holly Andres, Diane Arbus, Ellen Auerbach, Julie Blackmon
Julie Blackmon
Julie Blackmon is a photographer who lives and works in Missouri. Blackmon's photographs are inspired by her experience of growing up in a large family, her current role as both mother and photographer, and the timelessness of family dynamics...
, Jeff Brouws, Harry Callahan, Joe Deal, Wijnanda Deroo, Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
, Robbert Flick, Robert Frank, Masahisa Fukase, Leslie Gill, Elijah Gowin, Chip Hooper, Stephen Hughes, Michael Kenna, O. Winston Link, Mary Mattingly, Laurent Millet, Richard Misrach, Lisette Model
Lisette Model
Lisette Model was an Austrian-born American photographer.Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Stern in Vienna, Austria...
, Artur Nikodem, Charles Pratt, Susan Rankaitis, Man Ray, res, ringl+pit, Leo Rubinfien, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Jem Southam, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, David Vestal, Margaret Watkins, Weegee, Dan Weiner, Henry Wessel, Silvio Wolf
History of Exhibitions
- Epilogues 2 July 14 - August 27, 2010
- Laurent Millet: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant May 14 – July 9, 2010
- Joe Deal - West and West: Reimagining the Great Plains Mar 18 - May 8, 2010
- Michael Kenna: Venezia Jan 14 - Mar 13, 2010
- Robert Frank Sep 24 - Jan 9, 2010
- Right Through the Very Heart of It Jun 4 - Jun 26, 2009
- Mary Mattingly: Nomadographies Apr 2 - May 23, 2009
- Gail Albert Halaban: Out My Window Feb 5 - Mar 28, 2009
- Leo Rubinfien: Wounded Cities Dec 11 - Jan 31, 2009
- Holly Andres: Sparrow Lane Oct 23 - Dec 6, 2008
- Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski: The Early Sequences 1977-1982 Sep 4 - Oct 18, 2008
- Of the Refrain Jul 2 - Aug 22, 2008
- Aaron Siskind: The Egan Gallery Years, 1947-1954 May 15 - Jun 28, 2008
- Jem Southam: The Rockfalls of Normandy Mar 20 - May 10, 2008
- Silvio Wolf: Voyager Jan 31 - Mar 15, 2008
- Michael Kenna : New York / New Work Nov 27 - Jan 26, 2008
- Luis González Palma : Jerarquías de Intimidad (La Anunciación) Oct 18 - Nov 24, 2007
- Wijnanda Deroo : Interiors Sep 6 - Oct 13, 2007
- Epilogues : Recent works by artists exhibited 2005 - 2007 Jul 11 - Aug 24, 2007
- Elijah Gowin : Of Falling & Floating May 17 - Jun 30, 2007
- Chip Hooper: New Zealand's South Pacific & Tasman Sea Mar 29 - May 12, 2007
- Susan Rankaitis: Limbicwork Feb 15 - Mar 24, 2007
- Henry Wessel Jan 10 - Feb 10, 2007
- Gail Albert Halaban: This Stage Of Motherhood Nov 30 - Jan 6, 2007
- res: Conatus (in collaboration with Constanza Piaggio) Oct 19 - Nov 25, 2006
- Jeff Brouws : Approaching Nowhere Sep 6 - Oct 14, 2006
- Joe Deal: New Topographics 1974-1977 Apr 27 - Jun 10, 2006
- Silvio Wolf: Thresholds Mar 2 - Apr 22, 2006
- Mary Mattingly: Second Nature Jan 5 - Feb 25, 2006
- W. Eugene Smith Nov 3 - Dec 23, 2005
- Laurent Millet Sep 15 - Oct 29, 2005
- Michael Kenna: 30 Year Retrospective Jun 23 - Aug 26, 2005
- Stephen Hughes Jan 13 - Mar 5, 2005