Post War Photography

POST WAR PHOTOGRAPHY

Arbus, Frank, Penn: Masterworks of post-War American Photography
Featuring three pillars of American photography, this exhibit comprises 37 glorious vintage prints of many of the most iconic images of the post-War era, including Diane Arbus’s “Identical Twins,” Robert Frank’s “Trolley, New Orleans,” and Irving Penn’s “Mountain Children, Cuzco, Peru.”

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Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon was the SNCC photographer who covered many of the major Freedom Movement campaigns and projects. This is his narrative and a collection of some of the most moving and powerful images to come out of the Movement.

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.

Witness to History: Selma Photography of Stephen Somerstein 1965 
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for people from across the country to join the demonstration, a 24-year-old City College of New York student photographer named Stephen Somerstein jumped on a bus in New York city with his fellow college students and headed to Alabama to join the marchers.

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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.

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Bill Owens: Suburbia
Bill Owens' slyly subversive photo-essay on tract-home culture and the American Dream was an instant classic when it was first published in 1972, and has never looked fresher nor more relevant than it does today.

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Magnum Photos

Elliott Erwitt: Dog Dogs
Following the publication of his book "Son of Bitch," he became famous as a maker of funny pictures where dogs play the starring role, In his vast range of sentiment, and in his easygoing but precise mastery of the abstract elements of composition, Elliott Erwitt is an acute observer of the canine world.

Paul Caponigro: the Polaroid Years
Paul Caponigro is America’s leading elder statesman of landscape and still life photography. It was Ansel Adams who introduced Caponigro to the Polaroid Corporation, and thus began a fruitful multi-year collaboration between Caponigro and Polaroid. The rare vintage prints in this path-breaking exhibition, originally from Polaroid’s extensive corporate collection, cover the years 1959-1968, which was arguably the most prolific decade in Caponigro’s storied career.

©Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
For four years in the 1960s, Danny Lyon was a member of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. He emerged with one of the defining photo-essays of the 1960s, which seared motorcycle counterculture into the American psyche, and helped inspire the film Easy Rider.

Bill Owens: Working/Leisure
The 72 photographs in Bill Owens: Working/Leisure – narrated in the subjects’ own words – capture Americans hard at work and equally hard at play. With 40 years' hindsight, they stand as individual pieces in the grand puzzle that is the American Dream.

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.