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| John Goodman's techincally brilliant "The Times Square
Gym" may well takes its place as one of those works of
memoralist beauty dedicated boxing and the myriad ways
it has gotten into our blood.
-Joyce Carol Oates / DoubleTake Magazine
The Times Square Gym monograph
Photographs by John Goodman, text by Pete Hamill.
60 photographs, 80 pages, Evan Publishing, NY
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Cate McQuaid review of John Goodman's solo exhibition "Moving Pictures,"
Boston Globe, February 2008
"...."Father's Day, Coney Island" couldn't be crisper; you can see the grains of sand on the beach blanket as a couple smooches, heads hidden beneath a towel. For all that clarity, there's an aching sense of urgency. Right next to that is the gorgeously textured "Blanket," empty and half-buried in the sand, still but filled with the suggestion of what has happened there.
Most of Goodman's photos move, suggesting a speedy ride through the country, giddily taking in country singers and ballet dancers. But it's those pauses that give the show its expressive rhythm."
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Rebecca G. Dorr " Making Pictures," Boston Magazine, November 2008
"Boston photographer John Goodman has earned a national reputation with his striking, revelatory portraits. In this portfolio of highlights spanning more than 30 years, he provides a rare glimpse into what the photographs don't show."
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Peggy Roalf on John Goodman's
photos appearing in Devil Wears Prada, Design Arts Daily, June 2006
"..In
an unusual product placement for the visual arts, production
designer Jess Gonchor consulted with New York art dealer
June Bateman to build an on-screen photography collection
that reflects the style and taste of the title character,
the high-powered fashion editor Miranda Priestly. When seated
in her exquisite office suite at Runway magazine, an elegantly
moody portrait by photographer John Goodman can be seen
behind her desk. As you watch the movie, try to find three
more of Goodman's eclectic black-and-white images."
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Christopher Millis's review of John Goodman's exhibition at Art Institute of Boston, Sept. 2004
"...for John Goodman the gesture is
the equivalent of the human voice. Hands abound in his images-fretful,
poised, world-weary, guarded-and in their shape, in the kind and amount
of tension they carry, we come to know the person to whom they're
connected. Goodman makes us the reader of human signs.
Throughout his career, John Goodman has invited contradictions. His photography marries the tumult of personality with the symmetry of design, the visceral with the deliberate, guts with formality. By embracing these contradictions he has given us a body of work that compels us to see"
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In August 2002, photographer John Goodman taught a class entitled 'In Search of the Personal' at the Maine Photographic Workshops. His assistant, Brad Hamilton, took notes, and by week's end, had shaped those notes into a poem. What follows could perhaps more accurately be described as a collage of Goodman's quotes, meant to reflect the kinetic spirit of Goodman's personal stream of consciousness.
you need to kind of find the soul
shoot the shadow and the light and the mystery
don't tell the whole story, parts of people are great
just look at something moving and move the other way
you can have an ill composed, out of control picture and it resonates with people
ambiguity's really important
Read the poem in its entirety here.
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Vince Aletti's review of John Goodman's exhibition at June Bateman Gallery, Village Voice, June 2004
"Goodman over-uses blur and jarring out-of-register effects, but his results are often so moody, sexy and intriguing that you don't mind.
Although his best shots here are of street and beach scenes in Havana, a number of fragmented portraits--hands, eyes, a neck, a torso, a
gesture--make us curious to see what comes next. June Bateman Gallery, 560 Broadway."
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Duane Michals's review of John Goodman's The Times Square Gym monograph, 2002
"John Goodman's 'The Times Square Gym' is the best book about
boxing that I've ever seen. It is very reminiscent of the great
Brodovitch's book 'Ballet' in the way it captures the atmosphere
of the boxer's world. You can almost hear the thud of the gloves
hitting each other and smell the smoke and perspiration. All in
all this is a wonderful accomplishment."
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Joyce Carol Oates review of John Goodman's The Times Square Gym, DoubleTake, Issue #10, Fall 1997
"John Goodman's technically brilliant 'The Times Square Gym'
may well take its place as one of those works of memoralist beauty
dedicated to boxing and the myriad ways it has gotten into our blood."
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Pete Hamill, introduction to John Goodman's The Times Square Gym monograph
"The Times Square Gym is a gritty, passionate series of black-and-white
photos of the middle-aged trainers and the young boxers they coach
in a dilapidated space in what until recently had been this country's
pre-eminently seedy neighborhood. Published as a book in 1996, it
represents that rarest of artistic achievements: a monumental homage
to the lower working class. Its poignancy owes to its unflinching
lack of sentimentality."
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Christopher Millis's review of John Goodman's Embody exhibiton, Boston Phoenix, 2002
"It easy to wish for more of his work.... particularly since the
vast majority of his images are marked not by abstraction but by
their fleeting figurativeness. (Even his posed stills have momentum.)
I was grateful to be introduced to his enormous talent."
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