Post War Photography

POST WAR PHOTOGRAPHY

Let nobody turn me ‘round: the struggle for school integration 1954-63
art2art is proud to present this new exhibition depicting the decade-long struggle in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education to integrate the public schools and universities throughout the South. The prints in this exhibition are original vintage press prints culled from the archives of several leading regional newspapers. Many of these photos appeared on front pages across the country and helped sway public opinion and force the hand of the Justice Department.

Portraits in Courage: Icons of the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s-60s was a heroic time in American history. This timely show tells the story of the movement by focusing on its iconic figures. The 75 photos in the exhibition are original vintage press prints curated from the archives of several leading regional newspapers, i.e., the very prints that appeared on the front pages of the nation’s newspapers while these remarkable stories were unfolding in real time.

Martin Luther King: Selma
Art2art is proud to announce the show Martin Luther King: Selma, memorializing in 67 original vintage news photos one of the pivotal events in the Civil Rights movement which directly led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. With voting rights once again under attack, this moving and memorable exhibition is as timely as ever. And it is especially evocative that it features the actual press prints culled from the archives of several of the nation’s leading newspapers; i.e., the very prints that appeared on the front pages at the time and did so much to move the needle of public opinion.

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.”

©Danny Lyon

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.

©Bill Owens Archive

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.

©Elliott Erwitt/
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.