June 12th, 2008: "Dead or Alive"
Following its successful and widely publicized inaugural exhibition, Coney Island of the Heart, Bond Street Gallery is pleased to announce Dead or Alive, opening June 12.This new exhibition presents images of nature in various stages of life and death by four superb photographers of diverse and complementary backgrounds. Many of the pictures explore the curious and rich aesthetic truth that [territory where] death and decay are often [become] beautiful, both visually and poetically. The artists include:

Jesse Frohman is a leading fashion photographer who also has two award-winning books to his name. Earlier on, he apprenticed for several years with Irving Penn, learning a thing or two about photographing flowers. His flowers show Penn’s influence while radiating Frohman’s own style, with its quiet energy and strength. The series in this exhibition shows decaying blooms in many colors and textures—nature’s variations on a theme.

Australian-born Warwick Orme’s specialty as a top fashion photographer—for Vogue and Elle, among others—is capturing models against a white background in a way that crisply isolates the model and the garment as the sole visual elements. His backlit botanical close-ups are similarly stripped of distractions, revealing the plants’ twisting, swirling structures suffused with light and color.

Kevin Twomey’s lens transforms an ordinary brown leaf into an iron fossil, rusty yet sharp. His highly graphic pictures of leaves and other flora caught between life and disintegration discover the immense variety and intricacy of things dead or ignored. Visual poems on brittleness, they won Twomey, who’s based in San Francisco, an International Photography Award in 2007. Instead of giving artistic life to biologically dying or dead specimens,

Cristine McConnell offers a dazzling array of live spiders found around her Santa Barbara home (and released after being photographed). The Montreal-born McConnell’s passions are photography and ecology, and her pictures investigate humans’ complex relationship to other animals. In this case, her spider images—framed to resemble specimen boxes—comment on old-school scientific collecting and ask questions such as why our species has collected others in the first place.

The perfect exhibition for spring, the season of rebirth, Dead or Alive turns a photographic cliché—flowers and leaves (plus some spiders)—into a fresh and fascinating survey of how four talented artists see and capture similar subjects in different ways as they explore the relationship between biology and beauty.


March 27, 2008: Harold Feinstein "Coney Island of the Heart" Gallery Exhibit
Bond Street Gallery’s inaugural exhibition is Coney Island of the Heart, centered on the work of Harold Feinstein. It celebrates the history of Coney Island as the playground of the working-class melting pot through exuberant and singular images of the Jews, Italians, African-Americans, Russians, Puerto Ricans, and others who have played there. 

Other photographers on display include: Bruce Davidson, Bruce Gilden, Sid Grossman, Harold Roth, and Henri Silberman. It runs from March 27th through May 22nd. There will be an opening night reception on March 27th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Click Here for Coney Island of the Heart opening night photos.



March 27, 2008: James White "James White Photographs"
Show Location: Bond Street Gallery Annex, Brooklyn, NY
Including 10 limited editions – 8 images of the Victoria's Secret models photographed for
Esquire Magazine in a custom made clam shell box.

February 21 - March 7, 2008: James White "James White Photographs"
presented by Bond Street Gallery, February 21st through March 7th, 2008
Show Location: Beady Minces Gallery, 1311 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice CA 90291

Click Here for event photos.