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men on the streets
(1978-84) Exploring gender discrimination by employing role reversal - returning the gaze towards men.
The Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress on March 22, 1972, was sent to the states for ratification. In response, my first photographic series Men on the Streets (1978-82, primarily in the Wall Street area, near the World Trade Center and in downtown Los Angeles) investigated parameters of “the personal” in relationship to the universal. I employed role reversal, challenging notions of a woman walking alone on city streets, playing the “bad” girl. Propositioning male strangers to pose for portraits (not sex), for them to be looked at rather than being the looker. First exhibited in the group show Six Young Photographers, Soho Aldrich Center for the Visual Artists, NYC.
See the exhibition and press list at the bottom of the page.
Hope Sandrow, Keith, New York Man from the series “New York Men,” 1979, silver print.
Image and review published in Artforum
Steve Erle, At The Met 1979 Silver Print Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
James Brady, 1979 silver print, commissioned for Interview Magazine by Bob Collacello
David, NYC
George, NYC
Peter, Los Angeles
Keith, Castle Clinton, South Ferry, NY
Tom, NYC
Serge, NYC
John, Los Angeles
Jeff, NYC
Rusty, Los Angeles
Christopher, NYC
Tim, Los Angeles
Richard, NYC
Robert, NYC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1983 Hope Sandrow Men on the Streets Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Hope Sandrow Philadelphia College of Art curated by Ben Lifson
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1984. Neo York, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
Investigations: Face to Face, ICA Philadelphia, PA
The New Portrait, P.S.1, NY
New Galleries of the Lower East Side, Artists Space; and Spring Street Pier, NYC.
1983 Season Preview curated by T. Greathouse, Oggi Domani, NYC.
Six Photographers, curated by T. Greathouse 411/12 Gallery, NYC.
Spring Street Pier, curated by David Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo NYC.
Urban Artists, curated by Carlo McCormick and Christine Zounek Kamikaze NYC
1982 A Flag for the Eighties, curated by Nicolas Mouferrege, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
The Famous Show, curated by Gracie Mansion, Gracie Mansion Gallery NYC.
1979 Six Photographers, curated by Catherine Lamagna, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, NYC.
PRESS: (selected)
Nicolas Moufarrege, The Famous Show, Flash Art, January 1982
Bob Colacello, James Brady, Interview, 1980, p. 34 repro