Many
of Kalisher’s black-and-white photographs from the nineteen-sixties
and seventies were taken in New York, and they share a casually
incisive style with Garry Winogrand’s, Tod Papageorge’s, and
Joel Meyerowitz’s pictures of the city. Included in this smart
selection of new and vintage prints are a few MOMA party pictures,
but Kalisher worked primarily on the street, yielding photographs
that are anecdotal and full of characters: a pugnacious child
outside church, a driver sticking his tongue out, a fed-up guy
pushing his stalled car. A group of earlier pictures in the
office here grounds the show in atmospheric urban noir.
-Vince
Aletti
