Photography at the Steven Kasher Gallery

The Steven Kasher Gallery in New York displays photograpic works by its artists online through its 'exhibitions' and 'artists' links. Although this sounds pretty straightforward, not all galleries do archiving and displaying of works this well. Steven Kasher does. There are a few broken or slow-to-load links here and there (took me a while to find a link to photos by Lou Reed) but, all in all, this is an excellent site.

I started out exploring the site by looking for works by Fred W. McDarrah after the New York Times did a short review of his 2006 show at the Gallery. Once upon a time the review was reproduced along with the exhibition pictures on the Press page for McDarrah. Alas, the Press page for this photographer is full of broken links to PDF files of the reviews. The NYT seems to be allowing free access to some articles from their archives, including the review and McDarrah's Obituary just a year after his show at Kasher.

Some of the exhibits are by current photographers, but the real joy of this site is in the many exhibitions of vintage photos. The first archived exhibit is from 2005, "Original Disfarmer Photographs", by Mike Disfarmer. The Wikipedia page for Disfarmer is very short but the links at the bottom of the page include a gallery/sales location and a wonderful video.

This is definitely a website where it's very easy to find yourself wandering down all sorts of photograph-lined distractions. Like all good webwise galleries, Kasher has a Facebook page, which could be updated more often but offers some very good photos from their exhibits.