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Philip Perkis

Protected: “Correspondence”

by: A'Dora Phillips & Brian Schumacher

June 26, 2025

“I could go around with this camera and—there’s no words for it—I could express correspondence... I found things outside of me that matched what was inside me, my sadness and my loneliness, and my sense of beauty and my sense of space, and my sense of just the melancholy beauty and wonder of the world.”
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Philip Perkis

b. 1935
"The Last Photographs"  | 2021
A black and white photo of the bottommost parts of a small copse of trees, the mound where they're planted bordered with large stones. The primary focus of the photograph, however, appears to be on the pattern of shadow and light on the earth around the trees.
Stony Point, New York  | 2020-2021
"Cyrilla"  | 2014
A roiling sea and gray sky.
"East Sea, Korea"  | 2011
"New York City"  | 2008
S Korea  | 2008
"Warwick, NY"  | 2002
Mexico  | ca. 1994
A black and white photograph of a young, black cow tethered by a rope eating grass in a field. Behind it, small figures gather around three brush fires, scattered at a distance from one another. There are palm trees and mountains in the distance.
"Mexico"  | ca. 1994
A woman in a white headscarf sits in a chair, her back to the viewer, in a slab of sunlight, facing a stone wall.
"Bethlehem"  | 1983
"Connecticut"  | 1968
"Near Niagara Falls, New York"  | 1962
Philip Perkis, "The Last Photographs" (2021), Gelatin silver print.
A black and white photo of the bottommost parts of a small copse of trees, the mound where they're planted bordered with large stones. The primary focus of the photograph, however, appears to be on the pattern of shadow and light on the earth around the trees.
Philip Perkis, Stony Point, New York, 2020-2021, post-macular, gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 in., image: 8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. Image courtesy Philip Perkis
Philip Perkis, "Cyrilla" (2014), Gelatin silver print.
A roiling sea and gray sky.
Philip Perkis, "East Sea, Korea," 2011, Gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 inches; Image: 8 x 12 3/8 inches. Image courtesy Philip Perkis.
Philip Perkis, "New York City," 2008, pre-macular, gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 inches; image: 8 x 12 1/8 inches.
Philip Perkis, S Korea, 2008, pre-macular, gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 inches; image: 8 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches.
Philip Perkis, "Warwick, NY" (2002), Gelatin silver print.
Philip Perkis, Mexico, ca. 1994, pre-macular, gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 inches; image: 8 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches.
A black and white photograph of a young, black cow tethered by a rope eating grass in a field. Behind it, small figures gather around three brush fires, scattered at a distance from one another. There are palm trees and mountains in the distance.
Philip Perkis, "Mexico," ca. 1994, Gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 inches; Image: 8 ¼ x 12 ½ inches. Image courtesy Philip Perkis.
A woman in a white headscarf sits in a chair, her back to the viewer, in a slab of sunlight, facing a stone wall.
Philip Perkis, "Bethlehem," 1983, Gelatin silver print. Sheet: 18 x 16 inches; Image: 8 1/8 x 12 ¼ inches. Image courtesy Philip Perkis.
Philip Perkis, "Connecticut" (1968), Gelatin silver print.
Philip Perkis, "Near Niagara Falls, New York" (1962), Gelatin silver print.