tobykahnphotography

Exhibition November 5th-December 4th

2011-10-28T18:00:00.000-07:00

Corner Billboard: From The Billboard Series 2

2011-05-01T11:51:00.000-07:00

2011-05-01T11:47:00.001-07:00

EBOS Open Studio JUNE 4 - 5 and JUNE 11- 12

from 11:00 to 6:00

Lots of new work to see and talk about. Good eats & wine!

Setting Bricks, Embarcadero

2011-05-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

2011-05-01T11:33:00.000-07:00

About My Work:

For four decades I have been making photographs using the same 35mm format camera and a single lens. I look for irony, poignancy, and metaphor and am interested in translucency, layers, perforation of surfaces, veiled views, and glimpses of hidden worlds. Frames within frames, doors, windows, gates, and mirrors are recurring actors on my visual stage. I am a benign voyeur making up unverifiable stories from snippets of information snatched from an open gate or window.

I am fascinated by photography’s ability to consider and express the passage of time by stopping it or to suggest the past or future in one captured fraction of a second. I am interested in how a photograph may conjure or emphasize a subject by its very absence from the image. The edges of the frame are as important to me as the middle, and what I choose to leave out of the frame is as crucial to the meaning and content as what I choose to leave in. Therefore, I compose very carefully in the camera and always print the full frame.

Ultimately my work is a desire to recognize the unseen. That is, I seek to discover in the mundane a fragment of the world that may have been looked at but not perceived. I want to allow the viewer a moment’s pause to see what is normally so easily missed. My work uses light, texture, gesture, geometry, juxtapositions, and the play of scale and space within the frame. By isolating and combining objects I can reveal their overlooked importance or suggest new meanings.

The images that I make allow me to pose questions for which there are myriad possible stories and ideally make the viewer pause and ponder rather than know with certainty.

My portfolio includes black & white gelatin-silver prints, color photographs, handmade books, and photogravure prints.

My Resume:

Publications: 19 Views of Paris 2011
Billboards 2010

Legs Mostly Walking 2009

Exhibitions: Green, Berkeley Art Center 2010-2011

Berkeley Arts Festival 2009

Pro Arts Juried Annual 2008

Pro Arts Juried Annual 2007

New Visions: Introductions 2006, Pro Arts

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Art Institute

Collections: Chicago Art Institute

Getty Art Museum

MOMA, N.Y.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Art Institute

Private Collections

Residency, Kala Institute 2011

San Francisco Art Institute BFA, Photography 1972

Pratt Institute, 1967 – 1970

Window Sill: Late Afternoon Light

2011-04-28T13:46:00.001-07:00

A Walk In The park

2011-04-28T13:45:00.001-07:00

Seven Plus One

2011-04-28T13:44:00.001-07:00

Go Natural; From the Billboard Series 2

2011-04-28T13:42:00.001-07:00

Carousel, Bryant Park

2011-04-28T13:39:00.001-07:00

Billboards a handmade book.

2011-04-28T13:21:00.000-07:00

Beyond Imogen

2011-04-28T11:53:00.001-07:00

Shadow, Broadway

2011-04-28T11:46:00.000-07:00

New Snow In The Park

2011-04-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

Legs Billboard; From the Billboard Series 2

2011-04-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Open Studio June 2010

2010-06-30T23:49:00.001-07:00

Thanks to all who came to my open studio and made it such a success! In case you missed my open Studio here's a peak. (photos By Lynn Mueller)

East Bay Open Studio June 5-6 &12- 13

2010-04-28T16:06:00.000-07:00

Once again I hope you'll visit my studio, view my work, chat, ask questions and perhaps acquire a treasure to take home!
I'll be selling: prints, books,
note cards, singlely or boxed.
All at great prices.

Photogravure Three Wings

2010-04-28T15:52:00.001-07:00

Chine Colle Print 2010

Photogravure Empire State Building

2010-04-28T15:48:00.000-07:00

Chine Colle Print 2010

NOW AVAILABLE: LEGS MOSTLY WALKING

2010-03-31T15:46:00.001-07:00

A HANDMADE LIMITED EDITION BOOK (ONLY 50 COPIES) $36.00 + $4.00 postage & handling.

"Hey You Never" New York

2010-03-31T15:14:00.000-07:00

Lilly Pad With Clouds

2010-03-31T15:13:00.000-07:00

Shoe: From the Billboard Series

2010-03-31T15:09:00.000-07:00

Neil's Wheels

2010-03-31T15:08:00.001-07:00

WINGS SERIES: A BOOK IN PROGRESS

2010-03-31T14:24:00.000-07:00

Stay tuned for the publication of my big book,
now in production:

WINGS

Wing Series #50

2010-03-31T14:22:00.001-07:00

Wing series #45

2010-03-31T14:21:00.001-07:00

Wing Series #42

2010-03-31T14:20:00.000-07:00

Wings Series # 46

2010-03-31T14:19:00.000-07:00

North Beach

2010-03-31T14:15:00.000-07:00

From The Shopping Series

2010-03-31T14:14:00.000-07:00

Chris, Creekside

2010-03-31T14:06:00.000-07:00

Two Men Glass Sidewalk Lites

2010-03-31T14:05:00.000-07:00

Cooling Down

2010-03-31T14:04:00.001-07:00

From The Shopping Series

2010-03-31T14:02:00.002-07:00

From The Shopping Series

2010-03-31T14:02:00.001-07:00

Chinatown Walking

2010-03-31T14:01:00.001-07:00

Lucien Engrossed

2010-03-31T13:58:00.000-07:00

Lawn Series #3

2010-03-31T11:57:00.001-07:00

2009-05-19T00:06:00.000-07:00

EBOS Annual Open Studios:

Once Again I hope you can come join me to look at photographs, chat and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure.

2009-05-19T00:00:00.001-07:00

Bob's Workbench

2009-05-18T23:44:00.000-07:00

Shoppers -- Escalators: Grand Opening Day

2009-05-18T23:41:00.000-07:00

57th St;

Gallery View

Series

2009-05-18T23:30:00.001-07:00

< American

Icon Series

Midtown >

From The

Billboard Series

2009-05-18T23:02:00.000-07:00

Empire State building From 42nd St, Window

2009-05-18T23:00:00.000-07:00

Three Planes; From The wings series

2009-05-18T22:58:00.000-07:00

Central Park, Dusk

2009-05-18T22:54:00.001-07:00

banana tree

2009-05-18T19:01:00.000-07:00

Autumn Into Winter

Annual Open Studio 1st Two Weekends of June

2008-05-10T11:39:00.000-07:00

EBOS Open Studio June 7 - 8 & 14 - 15 11:00 - 6:00

Hope you can come join me to look at photographs, chat and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure.

SOLO SHOW - Berkeley Arts Festival 2008

2008-01-30T17:47:00.000-08:00

Berkeley Arts Festival • 2213 Shattuck Ave.-- Downtown Bekeley,• Great musical events and a gallery full of 36 of my photographs. What more could you want? February 2nd through March 3rd. Check www.berkeleyartsfestival.com for schedule.

PROARTS JURIED ANNUAL --I'M BATTING A THOUSAND!

2008-01-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

ONCE AGAIN I HAVE 2 PIECES SELECTED FOR THE PROARTS JURIED ANNUAL. (LAST YEARS JURERS ALSO PICKED 2 OF MY PIECES) This years guest juror is LAURA HOPTMAN, SENIOR CURATOR, NEW MUSEUM, NYC. THE SHOW IS OPEN FROM TODAY THROUGH MARCH 9TH 2008.
PLEASE JOIN ME AND OTHER OF THE 47 ARTIST'S IN THE SHOW FOR AN ARTISTS' TALK ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH AT 1:00.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. www.proartsgallery.org

Opening Day # 1 & #2

2007-12-20T12:11:00.000-08:00

From The Series: Museum Views

Urban Night Landscape &Off Road Vehicle

2007-12-20T11:51:00.001-08:00

Eqivocal Landscape

2007-12-20T11:50:00.001-08:00

Equivocal Views

2007-12-20T11:41:00.001-08:00

Peeping Tom

2007-12-20T11:36:00.001-08:00

EMBARCADERO PHANTASMA

2007-12-20T11:33:00.001-08:00

Ironic Ionic , & Screened Fence

2007-12-20T11:25:00.000-08:00

Matsushima Bridge

2007-12-02T16:26:00.000-08:00

HAPPY HOLIDAYS & Thanks to All of You Who Made My OPEN STUDIO So Successful!

HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIO NOV 24-25 & DEC 1-2

2007-11-05T11:27:00.000-08:00

I'LL BE SHOWING NEW WORK AND OFFERING SPECIAL DEALS AT MY HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIO FROM 11:00 TO 5:00 ON SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOV. 24 & 25, & DEC. 1 & 2.

Couple Walking Bryant Park

2007-05-26T19:44:00.000-07:00

Shoji Shadow, Lake Kawaguchiko, Japan

2007-05-05T16:22:00.000-07:00

Please Visit ProArts EBOS in JUNE!

2007-05-04T13:39:00.000-07:00

ProArts East Bay Open Studios 2007

June 2 -3, 9-10 11:00 - 6:00

1173 Sutter Street, Berkeley, CA 94707
(between Eunice & Yolo near the Solano Tunnel; Artist # 38 ProArts map B)
Black & White Prints, Color Prints, and handmade notecards direct from the artist.
Come join me to look at photographs, chat, and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure.

Pro Arts Gallery

Industrial View -- Urban Artifact

2007-05-04T13:30:00.000-07:00

Red Light

2007-03-27T16:24:00.000-07:00

NYC Street Corner, Morning, 10th Ave.

2007-03-27T16:22:00.000-07:00

Exit

2007-03-27T16:20:00.000-07:00

Worker On Roof

2007-03-27T16:18:00.000-07:00

Restoring The Pont Nuef

2007-03-27T16:16:00.000-07:00

Face Lift Pont Neuf

2007-03-27T16:15:00.000-07:00

Scaffolded Facade at Night

2007-03-27T16:11:00.000-07:00

2007-03-27T14:26:00.000-07:00

My open studio was a huge success with lots of traffic
and many satisfied customers.

Since then I have had work accepted into 2 juried shows:

PRO ARTS NEW VISIONS: INTRODUCTIONS 2006
JULY 18 - SEPT 3 2006
GUEST JURORS: DENNIS O'LEARY & GARY SANGSTER

I was honored to be one of 29 artists selected
out of hundreds of applicants for this exhibition.

PROARTS JURIED ANNUAL 2007
Janurary 27 - March 11 2007

Selections by BERIN GOLONU
associate Visual Arts Curator
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Berin selected 51 works by 41 different artists.
She selected two pieces from my portfolio which were both from my WING SERIES;

WING SERIES #11 (right) & WING SERIES #35 (left)

2006-05-08T21:32:00.000-07:00

ProArts East Bay Open Studios 2006
June 3 -4, 10-11 11:00 - 6:00

1173 Sutter Street, Berkeley, CA 94707
(betw Eunice & Yolo near the Solano Tunnel; E-7 0n ProArts map)
Black & White Prints, Color Prints, and handmade notecards direct from the artist.
Come join me to look at photographs, chat, and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure.

Artist's Statement

2006-05-08T21:04:00.001-07:00

For over a third of a century I have been making photographs with the same camera, working in the 35 mm format. I look for beauty, irony, poignancy and metaphor. I am interested in translucency, layers, perforation of surfaces, veiled views, and glimpses of hidden worlds through gaps and tunnels. Frames within frames, doors, windows, gates and mirrors are recurring actors on my visual stage. I am a benign voyeur making up unverifiable stories from snippets of information snatched from an open gate or window.

I am fascinated by photography’s ability to consider and express the passage of time by stopping it or to suggest the past or future in one captured fragment of a second. I am interested in how a photograph may conjure or emphasize a subject by its very absence from the image. The edges of the frame are as important to me as the middle, and what I choose to leave out of the frame is as crucial to the meaning and content as what I choose to leave in. Therefore, I compose very carefully in the camera and always print the full frame.

Ultimately my work is a desire to recognize the unseen. That is, I seek to discover in the mundane a fragment of the world that may have been looked at but not perceived. I want to allow the viewer a moment’s pause to see what is normally so easily missed. My work uses light, texture, gesture, geometry, juxtapositions, and the play of scale and space within the frame. By isolating and combining objects within the frame I can reveal their overlooked importance or suggest new meanings.

The images that I make allow me to pose questions for which there are myriad possible stories. Ideally my work will make the viewer wonder about something instead of knowing it. I suppose this is a more childlike state where less is known and more is questioned. In that sense I find a gentle pleasure in rediscovering the content of my own images and in sharing them.

2006-04-19T16:35:00.000-07:00

Deck Chairs

2006-04-18T22:26:00.000-07:00

Restaurant Window

2006-04-18T22:22:00.000-07:00

Pitcher & Glass

2006-04-07T00:15:00.000-07:00

Garden, Chateau Bergerac

2006-04-06T23:58:00.000-07:00

Seine Solitude

Waitng at the Gate, Palais Royale

2006-04-06T23:55:00.000-07:00

Pair Of Koi, Japan

2006-04-06T23:26:00.000-07:00

Great White Koi, Japan

2006-04-06T23:19:00.000-07:00

2006-04-06T22:58:00.002-07:00

Before The Tourists

Port Authority

2006-04-06T22:11:00.002-07:00

Chinatown Walk

2006-04-06T21:59:00.000-07:00