Name Gail Halaban | ||
Education Yale School of Art, Brown University | ||
Wnyc cityscapes photographer gail albert halaban
Gail Albert-Halaban (born Gail Hilary Albert, 1970, in Washington, DC) is an American fine art and commercial photographer. She is noted for her large scale photographs of women and urban, voyeuristic landscapes.
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- Wnyc cityscapes photographer gail albert halaban
- Gail albert halaban paris views sd
- Life and career
- About Thirty series
- Hopper Redux series
- Out My Window series
- Out My Window Paris series
- Distinctions
- References
Gail albert halaban paris views sd
Life and career
Albert-Halaban earned her BA from Brown University and her MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art where she studied with Gregory Crewdson, Lois Conner, Richard Benson, Nan Goldin and Tod Papageorge.
Albert-Halaban is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City.
She married Boaz Halaban on 8 June 1997.
About Thirty series
Albert-Halaban's photographic series About Thirty examines the life of privileged women in New York City and Los Angeles. These scenes of mothers with their nannies or a group of women comparing engagement rings establish both a critique of this kind of lifestyle as well as what the artist calls her own "complicated desire" to be part of this world.
"Hopper Redux" series
Albert-Halaban's series "Hopper Redux" revisits the exact locations in Gloucester, Massachusetts where Edward Hopper painted. The photographs elicit an uncanny familiarity. They echo Hopper's paintings, but they are decidedly photographic and of the present day. In this sense they seem to oscillate between the historical past and the contemporary present.
Out My Window series
Albert-Halaban's ongoing series Out My Window consists of elaborately staged photographs of people in their homes, shot from a distance. The architecture of New York City apartment buildings features prominently in the pictures, but the focus is the intimate view of their inhabitants.
Out My Window, Paris series
Albert-Halaban's series "Out My Window, Paris" picks up where its namesake leaves off. Set in Paris, Albert-Halaban peers through and photographs what’s behind the windows in the French city’s apartments and courtyards. As with "Out My Window" the residents are knowingly photographed, as if actors on the film set. A set of the Paris photographs first appeared in the French publication Le Monde in November, 2012.
Distinctions
Albert-Halaban's work has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Time magazine, M, World Magazine, Slate (magazine), and The Huffington Post. Her fine art photography has been internationally exhibited.