In what is proving to be an amazing fall for photo shows, it is easy to forget about smaller galleries when faced with the big, splashily advertised shows such as Ansel Adams' or Annie Leibovitz's latest.
However, tucked in in Georgetown, just blocks away from the Key bridge, as of last week Govinda Gallery (ALWAYS a rock photographer's haven) opened up their John & Yoko: A New York Love Story, an exhibition of photographs by Allan Tannenbaum.
The show contains over fifty black and white and color photographs taken from 1973 to 1983, this exhibition also accompanies the publication of your new coffee table must: John & Yoko: A New York Love Story by Allan Tannenbaum (Insight Editions 2007), with a preface by Yoko Ono.
Tannenbaum first encountered the couple in 1975, when he photographed John Lennon’s last public performance at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. In 1980, he shot Yoko Ono in his Tribeca studio for a feature story for the Soho News.
He went on to photograph John and Yoko on walks through Central Park, at their office Studio One, outside their residence at the Dakota and during the making of their video Just Like Starting Over. Tannenbaum’s photographs and stories are a rare document of John and Yoko’s life together in New York City, as intimate as you will get to these two people (and lovers). As the galleries' press release: His skill and sensitivity as a photographer and the warm relationship he established with his subjects are apparent in the images gathered in this exhibition.
The space itself, in an inconspicuous corner of Georgetown, allows for these photos to be viewed in a setting as intimate as they are.
The show is open till November 10th and you should make a point not missing it.
Oh an for those of you in search of an impressive present for the Lennon (or Ono) fan in your life:
A stunning limited edition John and Yoko: A New York Love Story is available to collectors for $200.00. This edition is limited to 1250 signed and numbered books in a white cloth bound portfolio box with embossed title. An original, signed photograph by Allan Tannenbaum, produced especially for this edition, has been included in a portfolio sleeve unique to this edition. Also included is a facsimile compilation of three articles in the Soho Weekly News from December 1980 featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
God loves a cheerful giver.
If he hadn't already been, I would have shot him by now.
Her too.
Ugh.