Mitchell Algus Gallery

About the Presention
Mitchell Algus Gallery presents works from the estate of Charles Henri Ford, a prolific and mercurial figure in 20th-century culture. Variously associated with the Surrealists and Neo-Romantics, the Beats and Pop art, Ford published 16 books of poetry, edited the pioneering magazines Blues and View, co-wrote The Young and Evil, an infamous autobiographical 1933 novel portraying gay life in Greenwich Village, and introduced Andy Warhol to underground film in the 1960s. The presentation will include photography by Ford as well as George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Herbert List; drawings by Pavel Tchelitchew and Romaine Brooks; and photographs and collages by Indra Tamang, Ford’s Nepali-born assistant and longtime collaborator. Advance copies of Tamang’s autobiography, My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford, published by Turtle Point Press this September, will be available at the gallery’s booth during the fair.