A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY
322 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA  70117
Telephone 504-568-1313
Fax 504-568-1322
www.agallery.com

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March 16, 1999

A Gallery for Fine Photography
presents an exhibition of original photographs by
WALTER ROSENBLUM: 
"In Search of Pitt Street" and photographs from D-Day  and the Normandy Invasion
March 15, 1999-April 15, 1999


With a camera given to him by his sister and a borrowed roll of film, Walter Rosenblum began strolling the streets of New York's Lower East Side photographing the people around him. These strolls led him to the Photo League, soon to become the heart of the New York photographic community.  There, while working with legends such as Lewis Hine and Paul Strand, his hobby turned to a passion. Challenged to focus his ingenuity, he spent six months on the same block chronicling the beauty of Pitt Street during the height of the Depression. Serving as a cameraman for the Army Signal Corps during World War II, Walter Rosenblum captured unforgettable glimpses of D-Day and the Normandy Invasion.

In my philosophy, the meaning of life derives from the people one has known and loved, who have made life inexhaustible in its richness.  I have met my share of evil people and know what they are capable of ( I was at the liberation of the camp Dachau) but I have always held that evil is not inherent in men and women. I still believe that given a caring society, only the best in people will flourish. That is the spirit that has moved me to photograph -Walter Rosenblum.

Walter Rosenblum lives in New York with his wife Naomi. The documentary
Walter Rosenblum: In Search of Pitt Street  by his award-winning director daughter, Nina Rosenblum was recently premiered.   

Book Available: Walter Rosenblum: Photographer, hardcover, signed, $49.95.

New Gallery Acquisitions:
W. Eugene Smith: Chaplin at work, 1952, 14" x 9", Silver Gelatin
           My Daughter Juanita, 1953, 13" x 11", Silver Gleatin
           Atoms For Peace: Mural Painting, 1958,  11" x 14", Silver Gelatin
Sandy Skoglund:   Shimmering Madness, 1998, 36" x 48", Cibachrome, Edition of 30
Roman Vishniac:   Photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1930-1939

Upcoming 1999 Exhibitions:
     David Redfern, The Unclosed Eye, music photographs, April 28-July 15, 1999
     Harry Benson, The Beatles: Now and Then, April 21-July 15, 1999
     E.O. Goldbeck, Panoramas, 1911-1980, June 15-September 15, 1999
     Franco Salmoiraghi, The Body and the Landscape, 
in conjunction with Art For Art's Sake, October 1- December 1, 1999
     Danny Lyon, People of the American Indian Nations, November 1- January 2, 2000. 

For more information, please call 568-1313.