“Rear Windows” Exhibition

The Invisible Dog

poster for “Rear Windows” Exhibition

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Curators Pauline Vermare, International Center of Photography ICP & Martine Fougeron

Here are five photographers captivated with the stories they have found hidden within the shadows of New York City. The subjects of their work remain in the dark corners by choice or inadvertently by the situation in which they have found themselves: they live in the “Hole,” a neighborhood in Brooklyn below sea level, squatting in trailers; they strip in Times Square’s last peep show; they roam the streets as a chapter of the Latin Kings gang; they are addicted to drugs and alcohol in a tent city; and they gamble at a crumbling aqueduct on the edge of Queens.

That’s a secret private world you’re looking into out there. People do a lot of things in private they couldn’t possibly explain in public” -Lieutenant Doyle, from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window

As the photographers embed themselves into these small self-contained societies, they observe and study but make no claim on objectivity; objectivity is impossible with true intimacy. Just like the camera, the window acts as a portal into another world but it is also a barrier. The glass and mirrors are a trick to make you believe you are really there.

Hitchcock was inspired by the great photographer Robert Capa, whose brother Cornell founded the International Center of Photography. All five photographers completed the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program at ICP last year, and met the curators through it as well; the circle is complete.

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Schedule

from June 25, 2015 to June 28, 2015
Friday 26, Saturday 27 from 1 to 7pm Sunday 28, from 1 to 5pm.

Opening Reception on 2015-06-25 from 18:00 to 22:00

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