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PHOTO
NEW YORK 2005
MICHAEL
GARLINGTON
Photocar is a group of six young artists on a transcontinental odyssey
in search of revelations about the real America. For several years
San Francisco photographer, Michael Garlington has traveled cross
country in Volkswagen sedans covered with black and white portraits
of subjects ranging from the sublime beauty of ingénues to
the unique visages of society’s outcasts. Photocar will be
accompanied by a documentary film crew to record the group’s
interaction with a diverse cast of the ordinary and the extraordinary:
factory workers, beekeepers, gandy dancers, circus performers, alligator
wrestlers, urban sculptors, poets and panhandlers. Photocar is a
magnet that draws people to the camera. This year’s trip will
be bigger than ever and the van will be covered with photographs
taken on the previous Photocar trips. Starting in San Francisco
in September it ends in October in Manhattan for photo new york.
Garlington, using a 4X5 camera, shoots whatever catches his eclectic
eye, from a sideshow contortionist to a Dairy Queen waitress. Much
of his work involves fantasy themes, some ethereally beautiful,
others darkly disturbing, but all characterized by a deeply felt
empathy for the human condition. Garlington's work is in the collections
of Yale University, Dartmouth College, Mt. Holyoke College, the
di Rosa Preserve in Napa county, and in the permanent collection
of the Minnesota Institute of Arts. He will have a one-man show
at the Institute in 2007.
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