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The Piers (portrait of a security guard), 1975—86. Gelatin-silver print, 6.25 × 4 inches.

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Street Scene (portrait of a girl), 1976. Digital c-print (2011), 5.75 × 9.25 inches.

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Missy, 1974-1980. Digital c-print (2011), 6 × 9.25 inches.

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In the Family, 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 4 × 6.25 inches .

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Pier 52 (Day’s End, Gordon Matta-Clark’s building cuts), 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 4 × 6.25 inches.

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Scumbag, 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 4.75 × 6.5 inches.

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The Piers (portrait of two men), 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 4 × 6.25 inches.

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The Piers (three men standing on dock), 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 8 × 12.5 inches.

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The Piers (man in front of window), 1977. Gelatin-silver print, 12.25 × 7.75 x inches.

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The Piers, 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 4.5 × 6.5 inches.

Baltrop22

Pier 52 (Day’s End, Gordon Matta-Clark’s building cuts), 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print, 6.25 × 9.25 inches.

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Pier 52 (Day’s End, Gordon Matta-Clark’s building cuts), 1975-1986. Gelatin-silver print (2011), 5.75 × 8.75.

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The Piers (two men sitting in window, graffiti on wall “Free Pier Warehouse Newsletter, take a copy, tell your friends the truth about the piers”, 1975- 1986, Silver Gelatin Print, 7.5 × 9.75 inches.

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Women Crossing Street, 1975-1986, silver gelatin print, 5.75x 4 inches.

Openwindow

The Piers (open window), 1975-1986, silver gelatin print, 7.25x 5 inches

Faucet

Faucet, 1972-1975, silver gelatin print, 8×10 inches

The piers (man standing on the dock)

The Piers (man standing on the dock), 1975-1986, silver gelatin print, 14×11 inches.

The piers (firemen)

The Piers (firemen), 1975-1896, silver gelatin print, 4.5×6.5 inches.

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Don’t Let them See You (The Piers), 1075-1986, silver gelatin print, 8.25×12.25 inches.

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The Alvin Baltrop Trust

Viewed individually and as a body of work, Alvin Baltrop’s photographs convey an idiosyncratic hybrid of Classicism and Film Noir. Baltrop’s ability to record spontaneous action as images with an aesthetic refinement transforms ‘street photography’ into a probing form of social introspection. With the use of blinding highlights and dark shadows, his photographs depict the familiar as curious, luring abstractions.

Baltrop’s work was rarely exhibited during his lifetime. It was however the cover story of the February 2008 issue of ARTFORUM, and is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Watermill Art Center, the Bronx Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston. Selected exhibitions include: Perspectives 179-Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, (2012), Looking Back/The Fifth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY (2010); Alvin Baltrop: Color Photographs 1971-1991, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, New York (2010); Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2010); and Darkside II – Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2009).

The Alvin Baltrop Trust is represented by Third Streaming.

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