Friends by Roberta Fineberg, Black-and-White Portrait Photography in Paris, France

Friends, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a black-and-white photograph of friends in a Parisian bar in the Marais. The silhouetted figure is contrasted against the contours of a female face with an eye both soft and wide open. In Paris of the 1980s the carefree young spent spirited evenings in cafes everywhere in The City of Light. Friends, Paris, France, 1989 is a 14” x 11” signed gelatin silver print, in an edition of 5.Provenance: RF Archive***Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed