Muhammad Ali’s rise from an unremarkable boyhood in racially segregated Louisville, Kentucky into perhaps the most famous, most written about, most photographed, and most recognized figure in the world is one that explains much about our culture and society. The photographs in Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon reveal the story of a person’s remarkable rise to prominence as a boxer and a legend.
As the “Father of Environmental Portraiture,” Arnold Newman (1918-2006) redefined the art of the photographic portrait. With a career spanning 60 years, Newman’s distinct imagery captures the innovative minds and personalities that defined the twentieth century such as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, John F. Kennedy and Woody Allen; a portrait of a groundbreaking era from one of its own.
This exhibition brings together a definitive collection of Lois Greenfield's pioneering work in dance photography and encompasses incomparable images of the beauty and strength of the human body, inspiring us to re-evaluate how we see the world.
Heroes documents Schapiro's personally selected collection of iconic images from his encounters with artists, writers, actors, athletes, and politicians throughout the second half of the 20th Century. His work ranges from dramatic images of the Civil Rights movement, to archetypal images of several groundbreaking and influential personalities, newsmakers, and thinkers of the era.
Working in brilliant color and with a large format camera, photographers Jimmy and Dena Katz spent three seasons following the last authentic traveling Side Show in America. A powerful and unsettling new work, that explores the post-modern aesthetics of American sub-cultures.
Fascinated by his new home state’s marriage with the nuclear industry, Patrick Nagatani began the Nuclear Enchantment series when he moved to Albuquerque in 1987. This exhibition, featuring around 25 works from the series, is drawn entirely from the collection of the Akron Art Museum.
Following in the tradition of Man Ray's photo-montage and other
influences from Dada and the Surreal to fantasy and science fiction,
Deena des Rioux engages camera and computer to rethink the portrait
as a technological subject.
Liu Zheng is one of China's most celebrated contemporary photographers. Inspired by August Sander and Diane Arbus, Liu's monumental project “The Chinese” captures the people who inhabit the margins of Chinese society, those left behind by China's head-long rush towards modernization.
In 2001, after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, Joel
Meyerowitz spent 9 months photographing Ground Zero. The resulting World
Trade Center Archive consists of over 8,000 images. This exhibition
offers some of the most compelling of these images and an unparalleled view
of what it was like to be there, inside Ground Zero.
"With color, subtler things can be the subject of a photograph, the very
weight of the atmosphere, the termperature of a day, the quality of
someone's skin - these don't reveal themselves in black and white but become
palpable in color." - Joel Meyerowitz
These photographs are a lyrical re-creation of a day in summer, from the
first light of dawn through a period of dramatic storm, to a sun-filled
afternoon, the calm of evening, to the last glimmering of nightfall.
This exhibition capture a fascinating, transitional period in country music. It was a time when its stars received little airplay, honky tonks and country music parks were still thriving, today’s popular bluegrass music festivals were just beginning, and some musicians were nearing their end.
Photographer, poet, novelist, composer, musician and filmmaker, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) spent a lifetime shattering barriers in his pursuit of truth, beauty, social justice and artistic expression.
The upcoming Sixtieth Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel offers at once a cause for celebration, and a pause for reflection. This exhibit features sixty memorable photographs in both black-and-white and color by members of the acclaimed Magnum Photo Agency.
A result of a decade-long exploration of the human face, Mark Story has
crossed the continent and beyond for these haunting and compelling
portraits of supercentenarians, centenarians, and people who appear worn
beyond their years by living extraordinarily hard lives.
Groundbreaking photographic account of Jewish culture, community and identity represents the most extensive visual record of Jewish life ever created. A 25-year exploration spanning more than 40 countries on five continents, DIASPORA shatters conventional ideas about Jews by celebrating in images and in words, the many expressions of Jews and Judaism.
Awe-inspiring, provocative, spiritual -- the acclaimed aerial photographs of Marilyn Bridges reveal hidden connections between past and present cultures across four continents and five millennia.
An evocative multi-disciplinary recent project by one of Japan 's leading photographers, in which vividly-colored 18th century Japanese woodblock prints are projected onto the white-painted bodies of Butoh dancers
A seeringly intimate, Guggenheim award-winning, multi-year collaboration between the artist and an unusual girl in a rural community in upstate New York .
