LANGUAGE OF HANDS
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BUHL COLLECTION

EXHIBITION DATES:
September 5th - October 28th, 2017

8 black and white photographs of hands in various positions and scenes arranged 4 by 2

Black and white close up photograph of a hand in motion in front of the World Trade Center

Cast paper sculpture of 8 green and brown hands emerging from a table and reaching toward the center of the table

Sculpture of a hand making a Buddhist gesture covered in blue sequins

Black and white photograph of Henry Buhl holding his face in his hand, looking at the viewer, and smiling

Four similar photographs of a woman’s face, with bulging eyes and hand covering her mouth in shock, arranged in a square grid

Double exposure photograph of two photographs of a young blonde girl’s face with her hand on her cheek

Digitally-altered photograph of a pair of hands emerging from the top edge with glowing red particles spilling from them, on a black background

Black and white photograph of the palm of a hand with spread fingers pressed against flat and glowing white

Photograph of two topless women holding hands, with one pinching the other’s nipple, both looking at the viewer

Collage of printed bronze plates forming an image of a hand holding an orb

Black and white photograph of a bald man with his hands covering his face on a white background

Black and white photograph of lit Shabbat candles with a woman and a child with their hands covering their faces behind them facing the viewer

Black and white negative photograph of a hand holding butterfly wings against a city background

Black and white photograph of a young girl looking at a pair of arms emerging from the right side, with animal figurines resting on the back of the left hand and forearm

Black and white photograph of a shadow cast by an object with a hand protruding from the top and a hand shape cut out of the middle

Purple-toned photograph of a man, a woman, and two children reaching their hands towards the viewer, with palms highlighted in white

Black and white photograph of a Native American man facing away from the viewer, with 2 pairs of white handprints and white dots on his back

Polaroid photograph of a pair of hands in prayer on a black background in a wide golden frame

Red-toned solar print of the palm of a hand with spread fingers, a keyhole shape in the top right, a key in the bottom right, and a ladder in the bottom left

Paper collage of two hands with the ring fingers folded in on yellowed paper with handwriting and a grid, with curvilinear black and red motifs

Black and white negative photograph of a pair of open palms, one with white cursive handwriting overlaid

Black and white partially blurred photograph of a figure walking past a large sculpture of a hand emerging from the ground

Photograph of a pair of cupped open palms emerging from a black background

A major exhibition of photographs from The Buhl Collection entitled Speaking With Hands was on view at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 2004. The exhibition traveled internationally from 2005-2007 to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2008, an exhibition of both photography and sculpture was on view at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida and from 2009–2011, an exhibition of 150 works from the collection toured Asia (on view in museums in Korea, Taiwan and Macao). The 2012 Sotheby’s sale of selected photographs from The Buhl Collection was the largest single-owner sale of a privately owned photography collection; bringing in over $12 million.

Mr. Henry Buhl is an active philanthropist, in addition to A.C.E. with programs for job training and placement for homeless men and women. He also founded The Buhl Foundation to assist non-profit programs within its mission.

GALLERY II: 1849 - 1970S

Pink-tinted black and white photograph of the hand and head of an ancient Roman sculpture with the name “HADRIAN” on the pedestal

Black and white negative photograph of a standing man placing his hand on another sitting man’s forehead, with a skull visible on a table

Photograph of an open locket with a mid-19th century photograph of a baby inside

Photograph of an open locket with a mid-19th century photograph of a man inside

Sepia-toned photograph of a man looking to the left and holding a violin and bow

Black and white portrait of an older man with his right hand tucked in his suit and his left arm resting on a chair looking to the right

Black and white photograph of a young girl in folk dress holding an accordion and looking to the upper right

Black and white photograph of a woman in a bodice and long skirt holding her open palms up and looking upwards

Black and white photograph of a pair of hands writing a letter

Black and white photograph of two hands reaching in from the right and adjusting a camera lens

Black and white photograph of a young nude woman posing and holding a sheer textile over her torso

Black and white photograph of a pair of ink-stained hands holding a rod

Black and white photograph of a pair of hands reading a braille text

Black and white photograph of a woman in a wide-brim hat touching her neck and looking to the left in front of a sculpture of a hand

Photo collage of a pair of hands appearing to drop a goblet onto three men sitting at a table, on a blue background

Solarized black and white photograph of a woman looking to the bottom right with a figure behind her, touching her face with both hands

Photograph of a group of people wearing bonnets and hats kneeling in a semicircle around a standing central figure, all with hands held up

Solar print of distorted hand silhouettes

Black and white photographs of a sculpture of a vessel held by arms segments with a hand on either end

Photograph of an illustration of a hand poking out the eyes of a man’s face, with the text “HUMAN RELATIONS 1932” below

Black and white photograph of a man’s hand holding the hand of a baby

Black and white photograph of a surreal scene with wood, sand, and a disembodied hand with claw-like fingernails

Black and white photograph of a hand reaching in from the upper right corner onto a black background with a white curvilinear line drawing

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon • Anon. Mid-1850s • Laure Albin-Guillot • William Anastasi • Laurent Elie Badessi • Pavel Banka • Dawoud Bey • Werner Bischof • Koo Bohnchang • Alphonse de Brébisson • Dan Budnik • Daniele Buetti • Keith Carter • Julia Margaret Cameron • Ellen Carey • Paula Chamlee • Andrey Chezhin • Lucien Clergue • Conce Codina • Vernoll Coleman • Marianne Courville • Richard D’ Amore • Louise Dahl-Wolfe • Judy Dater • Wouter Deruytter • Claudio Elisabetsky • Alfred Eisenstaedt • Ray Fisher • Andrew French • Adam Fuss • Hector Garcia • Marco Glaviano • Gerlovina-Berghash-Gerlovin • Joseph Grigely • Ralph Gibson • Jan Groover • Lewis Hine • Birney Imes • Yasuhiro Ishimoto • John Heartfield • Horst P. Horst • Connie Imboden • Barbara Jaffe • Sid Kaplan • György Kepes • Douglas Kirkland • Paul Laster • Ann Lislegaard • Klaus Laubmayer • Gina Lollobrigida • Lucien Lorelle • Jacques Lowe • Danny Lyon • Jenny Lynn • Elemérné de Marsovszky • Daniel Masclet • Mary Ellen Mark • John De Mirjian • Barbara Morgan • Martin Munkácsi • Edward Mapplethorpe (Maxey) • Maria Miesenberger • William Mortensen • Alfons Mucha • John Muller • Joo Myung Duck • Kristin Oppenheim • Patrick Nagatani • Arnold Newman • Jack Nisberg • Leonard Nimoy • Tetsu Okuhara • Tatiana Parcero • Cornelia Parker • Christopher Pekoc • Roy Pinney • Miguel Ribeiro • Eugene Richards • Klaus Rinke • Mick Rock • Michal Rovner • Gary Schneider • W. Eugene Smith • Accra Shepp • Rosalind Solomon • Drew Tal • Christer Strömholm • S. Thompson • Yasu Suzuka • JoAnn Verburg • Edward Weston • Harry Weber • Marion Post Wolcott • René Zuber

LANGUAGE OF HANDS PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BUHL COLLECTION

LANGUAGE OF HANDS
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BUHL COLLECTION