International Center of Photography - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for International Center of Photography. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Education Gallery: Life in Motion" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-12-09 - 2012-01-08
ICP, Happy Families, Inc., and the Artist Foundation present the "Life in Motion" exhibition, part of a greater program called "I Want to Walk," created by Happy Families to raise awareness about disabled...More »
"Remembering 9/11" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-09-09 - 2012-01-08
In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the International Center of Photography is collaborating with the National September 11 Memorial Museum on Remembering 9/11,...More »
"Harper's Bazaar: A Decade of Style" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography - Fashion
- 2011-09-09 - 2012-01-08
In the ten years since Glenda Bailey became Editor in Chief of Harper's Bazaar, she and Creative Director Stephen Gan have carried on the magazine's tradition of publishing high-impact photography. This...More »
"Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-09-09 - 2012-01-08
The Danish documentary photographer Peter Sekaer (1901–1950) was one of the key contributors to U.S. government photographic projects during the Great Depression. Sekaer photographed alongside Walker Evans...More »
Elliott Erwitt "Personal Best"
[4][1]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-20 - 2011-08-28
This major retrospective showcases the career of photographer and filmmaker Elliott Erwitt, the recipient of this year's ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement. Distinguished as both a documentary...More »
"Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945" Exhibition
[4][1]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-20 - 2011-08-28
Once-classified images of atomic destruction at Hiroshima will be displayed in a new exhibition "Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945" drawn from ICP’s permanent collection. The Hiroshima archive includes more...More »
"Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-20 - 2011-08-28
"Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist" celebrates the life, vision, and heroic tenacity of one of the 20th century's great humanitarians and photojournalists. Born in 1911 to Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, Gruber...More »
Wang Qingsong "When Worlds Collide"
[4][1]- Media: Photography
- 2011-01-21 - 2011-05-08
This exhibition will mark the first U.S. solo show of Beijing artist Wang Qingsong, one of China's most highly regarded contemporary artists. Trained as a painter at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Art, Wang...More »
"Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-01-21 - 2011-05-08
The quiet East Texas town of Jasper achieved notoriety as the site of one of the most brutal race crimes in U.S. history: the June 7, 1998 killing of a forty-nine-year-old African American named James...More »
"Take Me to the Water: Photographs of River Baptisms" Exhibition
[4][2]- Media: Photography
- 2011-01-21 - 2011-05-08
Religious rituals in America are not often public spectacles. A key exception was the tradition of river baptisms that flourished in the South and Midwest between 1880 and 1930. These outdoor communal...More »
"The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-09-24 - 2011-05-08
Considered lost since 1939, the so-called "Mexican Suitcase" is in fact three boxes containing 4,500 negatives documenting the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), and Gerda Taro. There...More »
"For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights" Exhibition
[5][0]- Media: Photography - Prints - Film
- 2010-05-21 - 2010-09-12
"For All..." explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s....More »
"Perspectives 2010" Exhibition
[11][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-05-21 - 2010-09-12
This is the inaugural installment of a new annual series focusing on significant recent works by contemporary artists, photographers, and filmmakers. These five artists are not concerned only with the...More »
"Atget, Archivist" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-29 - 2010-05-09
This presentation of 31 vintage prints by the celebrated French photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) is drawn from the ICP permanent collection. Surrealists such as Man Ray were fascinated by Atget's...More »
"Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-29 - 2010-05-09
Paris was a city of fantasy and chance encounters for Surrealist artists of the 1920s and '30s. During this period of unprecedented social and cultural transformation, photography played a dramatic new...More »
"Tichý" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-29 - 2010-05-09
This is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of the reclusive and mysterious Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. Now over eighty years old, Tichý is a stubbornly eccentric artist, known...More »
"Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-29 - 2010-05-09
"Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place" is an intimate exhibition that explores photography, memory and some of the meanings associated with "place." Guest curator and native Montrealer, David Deitcher,...More »
"Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video" Exhibition
[9][4]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2009-10-02 - 2010-01-17
The Third ICP Triennial is a global survey of today’s most exciting and innovative photography and video art. As ICP’s signature exhibition—and the only one of its kind in America—this year’s Triennial...More »
"Avedon and Fashion" Dialogue
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-09-10
An evening dialogue devoted to the changing paradigm of fashion with Harold Koda, Curator, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; China Machado, Avedon's 60s supermodel; and Lizzie Himmel,...More »
David Seidner "Paris Fashions, 1945"
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-05-15 - 2009-09-20
In 1944, the war-battered French couture industry decided to revive its international reputation by conceiving a small exhibition entitled Théâtre de la Mode. The exhibition organizer enlisted the major...More »
John Wood "Quiet Protest"
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-05-15 - 2009-09-20
"Quiet Protest" is a series of photographic works by the noted mixed media artist and educator John Wood, spanning a period from the 1960s through the 1990s. Part of a larger retrospective at New York...More »
"Avedon Fashion 1944-2000" Exhibition
[5][3]- Media: Photography
- 2009-05-15 - 2009-09-20
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. This exhibition will be the most comprehensive exploration...More »
"Deborah Turbeville 'Casa No Name' " Book Signing
[0][0]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2009-04-24 - 2009-04-24
"Casa No Name" is the embodiment of internationally acclaimed photographer Deborah Turbeville's love affair with her profoundly storied house in Mexico. First appearing on the scene in the ’70s with moody,...More »
"This Is Not a Fashion Photograph" Exhibition
[4][0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-01-16 - 2009-05-03
'This Is Not a Fashion Photograph,' is an exhibition of approximately seventy photographs from 1888 to the present organized by ICP adjunct curator Vince Aletti. Drawn primarily from ICP’s permanent collection,...More »
"Munkacsi’s Lost Archive" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-01-16 - 2009-05-03
Hungarian photographer Martin Munkacsi (1896–1963) created dynamic and elegant images of models and athletes in motion. His unique style—inspiring photographers from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Richard Avedon—grew...More »
Edward Steichen "In High Fashion"
[5][2]- Media: Photography
- 2009-01-16 - 2009-05-03
An exhibition of 175 works by Edward Steichen drawn largely from the Condé Nast archives, this is the first presentation to give serious consideration to the full range of Steichen's fashion images. "Edward...More »
"Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now" Exhibition
[2][2]- Media: Photography
- 2009-01-16 - 2009-05-03
This exhibition, organized by Carol Squiers and Vince Aletti, will present the most innovative fashion photography of the last few years, from photographers who draw on a range of influences, including...More »
"Living with the Dead: W. Eugene Smith and World War 2" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-19 - 2009-01-04
Among the most compelling and heart-rending photographs ever taken of warfare are those made by W. Eugene Smith during World War II. On assignment from Ziff-Davis and LIFE magazine, Smith (1918–1978) covered...More »
Susan Meiselas "In History"
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-19 - 2009-01-04
Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated...More »
Cornell Capa "Concerned Photographer"
[0][0]- Media: Calligraphy
- 2008-09-19 - 2009-01-04
Cornell Capa chose the phrase "concerned photographer" to describe those photographers who demonstrated in their work a humanitarian impulse to use pictures to change the world, not just to record it....More »
"America and the Tintype" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-19 - 2009-01-04
One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography is the tintype. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype...More »
"Heavy Light: A Conversation with Hiroh Kikai"
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-17 - 2008-05-17
On the occasion of the publication of "Asakusa Portaits" by ICP/Steidl, Mr. Kikai will discuss his photographic work with Noriko Fuku and Christopher Phillips. Hiroh Kikai has carried out an ongoing series...More »
"Heavy Light : Art and Photography in Japan Today" Symposium
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-17 - 2008-05-17
Join selected artists from ICP's upcoming exhibition "Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan" for an afternoon symposium to discuss their work. The moderators of the sessions will be exhibition...More »
"Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan" Exhibition
[7][7]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2008-05-16 - 2008-09-07
"Heavy Light" will present the exciting and highly individualistic work of a new generation of Japanese artists who have come of age following the Asian economic crash of 1990. For the last several years,...More »
"Bill Wood's Business" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-16 - 2008-09-07
Bill Wood's business was photography—and he produced tens of thousands of images over the course of his career. From 1937 (the tail end of the Great Depression) through the boom years that followed World...More »
"Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection" Exhibition
[2][1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-16 - 2008-09-07
This exhibition brings together works by three of the most important photographers of the 1960s: Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Lisette Model. The intense creative relationships between these three artists...More »
Archive Fever "Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art"
[6][1]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2008-01-18 - 2008-05-04
Organized by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents...More »
Barbara Bloom "The Collections of Barbara Bloom"
[2][2]- Media: Photography
- 2008-01-18 - 2008-05-04
Photographer, designer, and installation artist Barbara Bloom (b. 1951) has built her career out of questioning appearances, exploring the desire for possessions, and commenting on the act of collecting....More »
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