Our second issue takes on the problems surrounding the youngest citizens of our planet and focuses on some of the solutions already in motion. Again we journey around the world from Manila, to Uganda, to Peru and even into the future.
Mark Cohen, “Pink Jump Rope” (1975) from the series titled “Grim Street”. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery.
Mark Cohen, “Improvised Beach” (1975) from the series titled “Grim Street”. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery.
Mark Cohen, “Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking, Scranton, PA” (1977) from the series titled “Grim Street”. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery.
Image Left: Mark Cohen, “(Balloon) Wilkes Barre” (1977). Image Right: Mark Cohen “(Bubble) Wilkes Barre” (1977). Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery.
Mark Cohen, “Girl Holding Blackberries, Wilkes Barre, PA” (1975). Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery.
Mark Cohen, our “artist in residence” for the Children’s Issue, approaches his street photographs, mainly taken in his hometown of Wilkes-Barres Pennsylvania, with what has become known as his iconic “grab shots”. The work featured in this issue, all dating from the late 1970s, presents a time when children were teetering between the idyllic notion of “childhood” and the complicated reality of childhood today.
In 1973 Cohen’s work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Since then his work has become part of major public collections such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
