Lawrence Gipe at Joseph Helman. (New York).(exhibition of photo-based portraits)(Brief Article)

Art in America | May 1, 2002| | Copyright

Lawrence Gipe continues to scout out vintage pictures from the 1930s and `40s as sources for an ironic art about the uses of propaganda in the creation of history. For "Schone" (Beauty), a 2001 series of photo-based portraits, he selected banal, cheerless and ambivalent images from German photography journals and manuals. Once intended to entertain and instruct, these pictures captured a dream norm of Nordic attractiveness and were consequently regarded as fit subjects for the gaze of a new Germany. Oil on panel, and for the most part 40 by 32 inches, they cover a relatively ...

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