Past Exhibitions

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS

©Ted Diamond

Americana: The Flag in Popular Culture
This exhibition of 50 color photographs by Ted Diamond explores the phenomenon of the Flag in American culture.

©Arnold Newman/ Getty Images

Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture
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 their own.

America in Black and White: The Photographs of John G. Zimmerman
The exhibition includes many never-before-seen photos and showcases both Zimmerman’s diversity and visual ingenuity. Zimmerman’s pictures cover a remarkable range of subjects, from sports, fashion, arts and architecture to politics and the Jim Crow South. Many of the images in the exhibition were originally shot by for Life and Ebony in pre Civil Rights America. They resonate today as racial and gender inequality and the divide between urban and rural life continue to pose challenges for the country.

From Today, Painting Is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France

February -May, 2019
The Barnes Foundation, PA

Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972–1990
Nathan Benn embraced color photography before it was considered an acceptable medium for serious documentary expression. Revisiting his archive of photography for National Geographic Magazine, he discovered hundreds of unpublished pictures that appeared inconsequential to editors of the 1970s and 1980s, but now resonate with empathic perspectives on everyday life in forgotten neighborhoods.

Michael Cohen

The Faces of Syrian Refugees
Since the war began in 2011, millions of Syrian have been displaced from their homes, and their country. You’ve already seen some of the tragic images of Syrians desperate to get out. What you haven’t seen is what happens next.
“The Faces of Syrian Refugees” profiles twenty Syrians who fled their war-torn homeland and resettled in new countries in Europe and North America. They have new homes and are building new lives.

The exhibition consists of life sized color portraits and Proust Questionnaire style interviews that offer an intimate visit with a Syrian refugee. They come from all walks of life and now are engaged in everything from teaching art classes to museum docents to conducting a Syrian expat orchestra. The untold story of the Syrian refugee crisis unfolds before your eyes as you walk through “The Faces of Syrian Refugees”.

Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A
In 1979 African American photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A. Though raised in Queens, Bey and his family had roots in Harlem, and it was a youthful visit to the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that gave him the determination to become an artist. In Dawoud Bey: Harlem, USA, the artist takes viewers on a journey through this historic neighborhood. This work resonates for it is accessible, engaging and timeless.

Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement
Strategies of Engagement examines this eminent American artist’s diverse and innovative career through both celebrated and rarely exhibited projects made during the last thirty years. The exhibition focuses on the relational aspect of Weems’s art, recreating original installations in which viewers wander among suspended images on translucent fabric, enveloped by the artist’s audio narration, or stand confronted with video and photographic works that expose systems of power and injustice.

Maya Healers
Fran Antmann’s photographs taken in Guatemala over a period from 2006 to 2012 evokes the life and culture of the indigenous communities that live along the shores of Lake Atitlán. The healers, who are believed to have connections with the supernatural, use ancient Maya practices and derive their power and knowledge from dreams.

©Tomasz Tomaszewski

Crisis and Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession
Exhibition curated by Glenn Ruga/ SocialDocumentary.net
four renown photographers working in four countries, responding to the theme of the global recession that began in 2008.

©David Pace

West Africa Today: Contemporary Village Life in Burkina Faso
Since his initial visit in 2007, Photographer David Pace spends 2-3 months a year in Burkina Faso, West Africa, photographing all aspects of life in the village. His goal is to present Africa in a positive and realistic light, and to show that even in a very traditional village like Bereba, the villagers are very much connected with and part of contemporary global life.

©Michael Whitaker

On the Road to Forever: The Elvis Phenomenon
On the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, Michael Whitaker set out to document what he called "The Elvis Phenomenon," i.e., the extraordinary manner in which fan devotion continues to grow across generations extending from those who first experienced Elvis in 1954 to those unborn at the time of Elvis' death.

©Steve Schapiro

Heroes: Photographs by Steve Schapiro
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.

©Art Shay

Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon
Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon represents a comprehensive cross-section of Ali’s life and times. The exhibit gives viewers the chance to glimpse rarely seen moments of his personal life as well as more famous episodes from his career. These images not only illustrate the enormous changes that he went through from a patriotic Olympic champion to a draft-resisting member of the Nation of Islam to a figure of racial reconciliation, but also show that Ali’s gregarious, funny, and likable core personality remained intact even as a super-charged political atmosphere swirled around him.

©Joel Meyerowitz

Aftermath: Images from Ground Zero, Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz
In 2001, after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, Joel Meyerowitz spent nine months photographing Ground Zero. The resulting World Trade Center Archive consists of over 8,000 photos. 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, at a poignant and unforgettable time in history.

©Mark Story

Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age, Photographs by Mark Story
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.

Julia Margaret Cameron

For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron
alone among Cameron's presentation albums, the Mia Album fulfills several distinct functions in Cameron's oeuvre: it is not only a family album, but also a multi-year exposition of Cameron's evolving career. As the former, it features a wealth of portraits of Mia's beautiful daughter Julia Duckworth, several of them unique, as well as of Cameron's daughter-in-law Annie Chinery. As the latter, the pictures range from Cameron's earliest camera successes to her late mature work.

©Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks: Crossroads
In collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation, is proud to present Gordon Parks: Crossroads, a 45-photograph retrospective celebrating the life work of one of America‘s most accomplished 20th century artists. 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.

Israel: 60 Years
The history of modern Israel is the latest chapter in what Abba Eban once called “the miracle and mystery of Jewish history – self preservation, resonance, suffering and renewal.” The upcoming Sixtieth Anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel offers at once a cause for celebration, and a pause for reflection. The exhibition Israel: 60 Years , featuring sixty memorable photographs by members of the acclaimed Magnum Photo Agency.

World of Wonders: photographs by Jimmy and Dena Katz
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.

Robotic Portraiture by Deena des Rioux
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.

Daufuskie Island Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
In addition to paying tribute to the people and culture of South Carolina's sea islands Daufuskie Island serves as an important historical record of the last bastion of Gullah tradition and unspoiled island life.

Radical Vision: The Revolution In American Photography, 1945-1980
The decades after the Second World War were a time of incredible growth and change in the American photography scene. Parallel to the rise of Abstract Expressionism, American photography in the post-war years was marked by innovation and discovery and, like Abstract Expressionism, it made the United States the center of the art world in photography.

©Pirkle Jones

The Black Panthers 1968: Photographs by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones
The work of Baruch and Jones stands in radical contrast to mass media images of the time depicting the Panthers as thugs, criminals, or dangerous subversives. Their pictures reflect the dignity and humanity that animated the young revolutionaries, and also suggest universal themes of family, commitment, and hope for the future.

Looking at Animals Photographs by Henry Horenstein
“Looking at Animals” is a collection of the best animal photographs by noted photographer Henry Horenstein. In his unique style, Horenstein makes us look at animals as we have never seen them before— not as mere documents of what animals look like, but as a creative interpretation by one of our best photographers of the subject.

Across the Polar Sea: With Robert E. Peary on the North Pole Expedition
A narrative of Robert E. Peary’s 1908-09 North Pole Expedition, told through the glorious hand-tinted lantern slides and words of one of his assistants, Donald B. MacMillan.

SCIENCE IS BORING
ART IS STUPID
PROVE US WRONG:
The Princeton University Art of Science Competition: a celebration of the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science and engineering inform art and vise versa.