Mitchell Hartman

Museum: Covid, Portraits with Masks

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Museums: Portraits from an Exhibition

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mitchell hartman is an illustrative photographer based in New York City, specializing in fine art photography using the street genre as a starting point for his work. He uses this form to express his view of the contemporary urban experience—particularly that of the five boroughs of New York. His current, ongoing series is called “Museums: Portraits from an Exhibition” explores various levels of observing using museums as his environment.

 

Mitchell received his BFA in commercial illustration from the School of Visual and has been exhibited by several prominent galleries, and has been represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport California since 2011.

Museums: Portraits from An Exhibition

 

This series of photographs,  “Museums: Portraits from an Exhibition”, explores various levels of observing.   People are captured in museums while looking at other depictions of reality, filtered through the artist’s sensibility and notions of reality. He is a watcher by trade and the subjects here are also incidental watchers. However, while in the museum, the act of watching is also complicated by dimensions of time: your time (the viewer of my photographs), the museum-attendee’s time, and in most instances, the original artist’s or exhibit’s time. Of course,  I’m not the first photographer to explore these themes, but there is much to be explored here.