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.
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“Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie” Exhibition
The International Center of Photography (ICP) will exhibit Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth,...More »
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William Klein “YES; Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013”
Street photographer. Fashion photographer. Painter. Graphic designer. Abstract artist. Writer. Filmmaker. Book maker. Few have transformed as many fields of art and culture as William Klein. From his wildly...More »
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“A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload” and “ACTUAL SIZE! Photography at Life Scale”
The International Center of Photography (ICP) announces the winter/spring 2022 exhibition schedule, featuring two thematic exhibitions that question basic assumptions about photography. A Trillion Sunsets:...More »
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Gillian Laub “Family Matters”
For the last two decades, American artist Gillian Laub has used the camera to investigate how society’s most complex questions are often writ large in our most intimate relationships. Her focus on family,...More »
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“INWARD: Reflections on Interiority” Exhibition
This fall, the International Center of Photography (ICP) presents a new exhibition focusing on the work of five emerging Black artists who have turned the lens inward to explore and capture the “unseen”...More »
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Diana Markosian “Santa Barbara”
This fall, the International Center of Photography (ICP) presents an exhibition by Diana Markosian that contrasts the idealized expectation of the American Dream with the often dark and startling reality...More »
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“But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World” Exhibition
Make an appointment to attend in-person. The International Center of Photography (ICP) proudly announces its winter/spring 2021 exhibition: But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, guest...More »
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James Coupe “Warriors”
British-born, Seattle-based artist James Coupe creates artworks that examine the often unseen and unacknowledged impact of surveillance and artificial intelligence on our everyday lives. The three new...More »
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“The Lower East Side Selections from the ICP Collection” Exhibition
In many ways, the Lower East Side is both quintessentially American and uniquely New York. Always changing, it has been one of the most densely populated, multiethnic, and modern places in the country....More »
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Tyler Mitchell “I Can Make You Feel Good”
“I often think about what white fun looks like, and this notion that Black people can’t have the same. Growing up with Tumblr, I would often come across images of sensual, young, attractive white models...More »
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“CONTACT HIGHA Visual History of Hip-Hop” Exhibition
CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop explores four decades of photography, from the late 1970s to today, documenting a revolution not just in music, but in politics, race relations, fashion, and culture....More »
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“Your Mirror: Portraits” Exhibition
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents its Winter/Spring 2019 exhibitions: For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? and Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection. Both are on view from...More »
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“For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?” Exhibition
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents its Winter/Spring 2019 exhibitions: For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? and Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection. Both are on view from...More »
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Eugene Richards “The Run-On of Time”
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time. This exhibition, the first museum retrospective devoted to Richards’s nearly 50-year career, will be on view...More »
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“Multiply, Identify, Her” Exhibition
This exhibition features an intergenerational group of women artists whose work explores the construction of hybrid and multiple identities. Working in photography, video, and film, through assemblage,...More »
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“RFK Funeral Train: The People’s View” Exhibition
On June 8, 1968, thousands of people lined the train tracks from New York to Washington, DC, paying their last respects and expressing bewilderment and sorrow at the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy....More »
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Henri Cartier-Bresson “The Decisive Moment”
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment examines Cartier-Bresson’s influential publication, widely considered to be one of the most important photobooks of the twentieth century. Pioneering for its...More »
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Elliott Erwitt “Pittsburgh 1950”
In 1950 Elliott Erwitt, then just twenty-two years old, set out to capture Pittsburgh’s transformation from an industrial city into a modern metropolis. Commissioned by Roy Stryker, the mastermind behind...More »
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Edmund Clark “The Day the Music Died”
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died, the award-winning British photographer’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. On view January...More »
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“Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II” Exhibition
Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II examines a dark episode in US history when, in the name of national security, the government incarcerated 120,000 citizens...More »
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Lauren Greenfield “Generation Wealth”
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents GENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield. This exhibit—an extraordinary visual record and thematic investigation of wealth obsession. GENERATION...More »
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“Magnum Manifesto” Exhibition
The International Center of Photography (ICP), the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, continues its designated “Year of Social Change” with Magnum Manifesto, which...More »
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“Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” Exhibition
Organized by ICP Curators Carol Squiers and Cynthia Young, ICP Assistant Curators Susan Carlson and Claartje van Dijk, and adjunct curators Joanna Lehan and Kalia Brooks, Perpetual Revolution: The Image...More »
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“Public, Private, Secret” Exhibition
Public, Private, Secret is the premiere exhibition at the new ICP Museum, located at 250 Bowery. Organized by Curator-in-Residence, Charlotte Cotton, with ICP Associate Curator Pauline Vermare and Assistant...More »
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Sebastião Salgado “Genesis”
Genesis, an exhibition comprising more than two hundred spectacular black-and-white photographs of wildlife, landscapes and indigenous peoples, has its United States debut at the International Center of...More »
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“Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1944–2013” Exhibition
“Urbes Mutantes” (Mutant Cities) takes the dynamic and occasionally chaotic Latin American city as its focus. Spanning seven decades, but focused particularly on works produced from the 1950s to the 1980s,...More »
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John G. Morris “Somewhere in France: John G. Morris and the Summer of 1944”
As a young photo-editor for Life magazine, John G. Morris (b. 1916) was based in London and assigned to oversee the photographic reportage of World War II. Most notably, he coordinated the dramatic photojournalistic...More »
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Caio Reisewitz Exhibition
One of Brazil’s leading contemporary photographers, Caio Reisewitz (b. 1967) has produced a remarkable body of work during the past 15 years, concentrating almost exclusively on Brazilian subjects. His...More »
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“Capa in Color” Exhibition
This exhibition presents Robert Capa’s color work for the first time. Capa regularly used color film from the 1940s until his death in 1954. Some of these photographs were published in magazines of the...More »
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“What Is a Photograph?” Exhibition
Organized by ICP Curator Carol Squiers, “What Is a Photograph?” will explore the intense creative experimentation in photography that has occurred since the 1970s. Conceptual art introduced photography...More »
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ICP Lecture Series “Who Shot JFK? A Conversation with Oliver Stone”
Presented in conjunction with the ICP exhibition, “JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History” on view through January 19, fillmmaker Oliver Stone will be in conversation with ICP Chief Curator...More »
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ICP Lecture Series “A Conversation with Zoe Strauss”
In conjunction with the ICP exhibition Zoe Strauss: 10 Years, on view October 4–January 19, Zoe Strauss will be in conversation with ICP Curator Kristen Lubben at School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue...More »
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“JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History” Exhibition
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, the event and its aftermath were broadcast to a stunned nation through photography and television. Reporters used...More »
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“The Future of America: Lewis Hine’s New Deal Photographs” Exhibition
Among the least known but most prescient photographs taken by social documentary photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940) were those he made as chief photographer for the National Research Project (NRP), a...More »
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Lewis Hine Exhibition
Lewis Hine (1874–1940) is widely recognized as an American original whose work has been cited as a precursor to modernist and documentary photography. While certain of Hine’s photographic projects—such...More »
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Zoe Strauss “10 Years”
For a decade between 2001 and 2010, Philadelphia photographer Zoe Strauss (b. 1970) showed her photographic works once a year in a public space beneath an I-95 highway overpass in South Philadelphia. In...More »
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“A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial” Exhibition
Every three years, ICP’s curators round up some of the most interesting contemporary photography and video works from around the world. The 2013 Triennial, A Different Kind of Order, focuses on artworks...More »
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"Roman Vishniac Rediscovered" Exhibition
This exhibition brings together four decades of work by an extraordinarily versatile and innovative photographer for the first time. Roman Vishniac created the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic...More »
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Chim "We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933–1956"
This retrospective exhibition traces the development of Chim's career as an intellectually engaged photojournalist, placing his life and work in the broader context of 1930s–50s photography and European...More »
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"Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life" Exhibition
"Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life" is a photographic exhibition examining the legacy of the apartheid system and how it penetrated even the most mundane aspects...More »
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Gordon Parks "100 Years"
To commemorate the centennial of the birth of photographer, filmmaker, musician, and writer Gordon Parks (1912–2006), the International Center of Photography in conjunction with The Gordon Parks Foundation...More »
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Christer Strömholm "Les Amies de Place Blanche"
Raising profound issues about identity, sexuality, and gender, Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche, presents 40 photographs, historical publications, and ephemera documenting young transgender...More »
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"President in Petticoats! Civil War Propaganda in Photographs" Exhibition
Slightly less than 150 years ago, the American Civil War was grinding to a dispiriting and unheroic end. After the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s rebel forces and the shocking assassination of President...More »
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"A Short History of Photography: From the ICP Collection Honoring Willis E. Hartshorn, Ehrenkranz Director" Exhibition
“The illiterate of the future,” someone has said, “will be ignorant not of reading or writing, but of photography.” —Walter Benjamin,“A Short History of Photography” (1931) This wide-ranging exhibition...More »
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Weegee "Murder Is My Business"
For an intense decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee (1899–1968) was one of the most relentlessly inventive figures in American photography. His graphically dramatic and often lurid photographs of New York...More »
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"The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet" Exhibition
Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving,...More »
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"Perspectives 2012" Exhibition
"Perspectives 2012," is the second installment of an exhibition series that focuses on innovative artists working in photography and video. These small group exhibitions highlight the individual ideas...More »
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"Magnum Contact Sheets" Exhibition
Often compared to an artist’s sketchbook, a contact sheet is the photographer’s first look at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into the working process. It...More »
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"Education Gallery: Life in Motion" Exhibition
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 »
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"Remembering 9/11" Exhibition
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 »
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"Harper's Bazaar: A Decade of Style" Exhibition
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 »
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"Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer" Exhibition
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 »
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Elliott Erwitt "Personal Best"
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 »
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"Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945" Exhibition
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 »
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"Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist" Exhibition
"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 »
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Wang Qingsong "When Worlds Collide"
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 »
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"Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan" Exhibition
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 »
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"Take Me to the Water: Photographs of River Baptisms" Exhibition
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 »
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"The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro" Exhibition
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 »
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"For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights" Exhibition
"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 »
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"Perspectives 2010" Exhibition
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 »
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"Atget, Archivist" Exhibition
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 »
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"Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris" Exhibition
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 »
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"Tichý" Exhibition
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 »
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"Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place" Exhibition
"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 »
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"Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video" Exhibition
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 »
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"Avedon and Fashion" Dialogue
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 »
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David Seidner "Paris Fashions, 1945"
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 »
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John Wood "Quiet Protest"
"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 »
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"Avedon Fashion 1944-2000" Exhibition
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 »
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"Deborah Turbeville 'Casa No Name' " Book Signing
"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 »
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"This Is Not a Fashion Photograph" Exhibition
'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 »
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"Munkacsi’s Lost Archive" Exhibition
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 »
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Edward Steichen "In High Fashion"
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 »
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"Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now" Exhibition
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 »
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"Living with the Dead: W. Eugene Smith and World War 2" Exhibition
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 »
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Susan Meiselas "In History"
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 »
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Cornell Capa "Concerned Photographer"
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 »
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"America and the Tintype" Exhibition
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 »
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"Heavy Light: A Conversation with Hiroh Kikai"
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 »
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"Heavy Light : Art and Photography in Japan Today" Symposium
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 »
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"Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan" Exhibition
"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 »
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"Bill Wood's Business" Exhibition
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 »
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"Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection" Exhibition
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 »
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Archive Fever "Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art"
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 »
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Barbara Bloom "The Collections of Barbara Bloom"
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 »