INGAR KRAUSS
Birds of Passage
November 28, 2007 through February 2, 2008



ART GALLERIES-CHELSEA
December 17, 2007

INGAR KRAUSS



The German photographer’s remarkable new black-and-white portraits depict Eastern European migrant workers posed outdoors at the end of a day of harvesting. Facing the camera but rarely looking at it, the men stand alone, at once self-conscious and self-contained. Several of them are shirtless, and two are wearing nothing but knit undershorts, but there’s no preening here, and little attempt at seduction. Like August Sander, Krauss remains at a certain remove from his subjects and records them with careful specificity. In these portraits, masculinity, dignity, and strength of character are more than abstract ideas. Through Jan. 5. (Marvelli, 526 W. 26th St. 212-627-3363.)