Maryam Eisler’s photograph “Vintage Wheels and Roller Thrills” can be seen at Harper’s Gallery in East Hampton.
Maryam Eisler at Harper’s
“Summer of 69,” a solo exhibition of photographs by Maryam Eisler, a London-based photographer and author, will open Saturday at Harper’s Gallery in East Hampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show, which will run through July 1, coincides with the release of Eisler’s new book, also titled “Summer of 69.”
Though photographed in the present, the book is “a love letter to the late ’60s/early ’70s, an era of carefree elegance, heightened sensuality, and a romanticized idea of beauty,” says Eisler.
While the locations include Montauk (the Lunch restaurant on Napeague and a “Montauk cowboy”) and Palm Beach (palm trees, tennis courts, swimming pools), there are also tableaus featuring breakfast cereals, bedrooms, peacock chairs, and mah-jongg tiles, all populated by attractive but slightly louche models.
“Maryam Eisler occupies a unique space in contemporary photography,” said Harper Levine, the gallery’s proprietor. “As a natural heir to ‘Good Life’ photographers like Slim Aarons and Arthur Elgort, Eisler’s work in ‘Summer of 69’ both amplifies and subverts historical tropes of glamour and femininity"—Mark Segal