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Robert Koch Gallery

June 20 - August 25, 2013

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49 Geary Street, 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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Hesitating Beauty Hesitating Beauty, Joshua Lutz
The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of photographs from Joshua Lutz’ newly released monograph, Hesitating Beauty. Seamlessly blending his own photographs with family records, interviews and letters, Joshua Lutz offers a startling yet intimate portrait of a family consumed by the tragedy of mental illness. In Hesitating Beauty, Lutz deftly builds a cumulative, non-linear narrative, echoing the mental decline of the artist’s mother. Lutz offers a somber portrayal of the family unit; presenting images that are simultaneously nostalgic and foreign. Hospital beds, medical bracelets and sunspots through spider-web covered, overgrown suburbs, bestow the glancing semblance of time and our own conception of reality. As Susan Sontag states in her essay, On Photography, “the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses...only that which narrates can make us understand”. Lutz challenges the traditional function of the photographic medium in portraying narrative and shows us what it feels like to cope with a family member slipping away into psychosis. Joshua Lutz received his BFA from Bard College in 1997, and his MFA from Bard College at the International Center of Photography in 2005. The recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, Best Editorial awards from Photo District News and Communication Arts, Lutz was also named one of Photo District News’ top 30 emerging photographers. His work has been featured in publications ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to The New York Times Magazine. He is currently on the faculty at the International Center of Photography. Joshua Lutz’s first monograph, Meadowlands, was published by Power House Books in 2008. Please contact the gallery for further information or press images. Robert Koch Gallery 49 Geary Street, 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108