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International Center of Photography Announces 2024-2025 Winter Exhibition Program
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On View
January 23-May 5, 2025
Public Opening January 23, 5–8 PMLocation
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The International Center of Photography (ICP) is pleased
to announce its winter exhibition programming for 2024-2025:
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| Mickey Pallas, Sugar Striker, Reserve, Louisiana, 1955. International Center of Photography, Gift of Mickey Pallas, 1987 (601.1987) © Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation |
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| Drawing from works by more than 40 photographers in the ICP collection, with the addition of exhibition prints from contemporary photographers, American Job: 1940-2011 highlights the collection’s breadth and contemporary relevance by surveying the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity; race and gender discrimination in labor; organized labor’s role in politics; labor and activism and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century.
Organized chronologically in five sections, the exhibition explores the transformation of work in America and with it the rise of activism and new forms of solidarity in pursuit of humane working conditions and economic equity. Included are over 130 photographs, along with photobooks and a wide range of ephemera that underscore text and image based storytelling. American Job: 1940-2011 introduces lesser-known images from the ICP collection, provides new contexts for celebrated bodies of work, illustrates the contributions of professional photojournalists and community-based documentarians to the historical record of the twentieth century and demonstrates the breadth of ICP’s collecting of works from across the country.
The exhibition is curated by guest curator Makeda Best, photography historian and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Oakland Museum of California.
Exhibition Support
The exhibition is generously supported by The Andrew and Marina Lewin Family Foundation.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Caryl Englander, Almudena Legorreta, ICP Board of Trustees, Shubert Foundation, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. |
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| Koyoltzintli, Oficio Divino, 2022. © Koyolzintli |
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To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography
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| Bringing together the work of seven artists primarily working in photography, including Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville and Sasha Wortzel, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography reimagines what an archive can be or might look like. More than just a means of recuperating the past, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures.
Moving away from the centrality of the institutional archive, the artists in To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography expand its parameters by engaging with materials—clothing, instruments, the landscape and more—beyond photographs and documents alone. By working with a myriad of contemporary materials, these artists create new histories and material sensibilities. As artist and co-curator Keisha Scarville stated, “The artists in this show are locating archives in the elsewhere, the otherwise, the elusive, the familial, the obscure, the speculative, the sonic and in death. They hold lived histories and manifest languages for how narratives get carried forward. The work in this show engages errant archives in the service of uncovering latent futures. Each artist challenges the established linear structures and expands our understanding of what the archive can be.”
The exhibition is curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Keisha Scarville, Guest Curator and Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections.
Exhibition Support
The exhibition is generously supported by ICP Exhibitions Committee members – Luana Alesio, Deborah Brown, Romy Cohen, Marguerite Gelfman, Vasant Nayak, Elizabeth Rea, Benita Sakin, Magali Smith, Helena Sokoloff, and Richard Stern.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Caryl Englander, Almudena Legorreta, ICP Board of Trustees, Shubert Foundation, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. |
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| Weegee, Photographers at Premier, c.1951. © International Center of Photography/Getty Images |
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Weegee: Society of the Spectacle
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| Weegee: Society of the Spectacle marks the sixth major presentation of Weegee’s work at ICP and the first since it relocated to Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood, the very same one that Weegee transformed into an urban stage in his photographs. The exhibition arrives at a time when his commentary on the blurred lines between reality and performance and news and entertainment feel newly relevant and urgent in the age of smartphones and viral media where every individual has become both a voyeur and a consumer of spectacle.
Drawn largely from ICP’s Weegee collection, itself comprised of his entire studio archive and also the most comprehensive holdings of the photographer’s work in the world, Weegee: Society of the Spectacle is a re-examination of the photographer’s visual commentary on the society of his time, connecting his early career documenting New York City streets to his later work in Hollywood’s glamorized world of celebrity and working with experimental image distortions. Long regarded as two distinct periods in his career, the works in Weegee: Society of the Spectacle challenge this division by underscoring how Weegee’s exploration of spectacle persisted across different contexts—from crime scenes and fires to red carpet premieres. Weegee’s masterful depiction of the ‘society of spectators’ captures both the unfiltered, everyday urban experience and the glossy allure of fame.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication created by the Fondation and Thames & Hudson that explores the impact of Weegee’s art and his critical view of urban spectacle. ICP is excited to present the new English-language edition of this important study of Weegee’s work.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris and curated by Clément Chéroux, Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Exhibition Support
The exhibition is generously supported by the Trellis Charitable Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts and ICP Exhibitions Committee members – Luana Alesio, Deborah Brown, Romy Cohen, Marguerite Gelfman, Vasant Nayak, Elizabeth Rea, Benita Sakin, Magali Smith, Helena Sokoloff and Richard Stern.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Caryl Englander, Almudena Legorreta, ICP Board of Trustees, Shubert Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. |
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International Center of Photography
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The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Cornell Capa founded ICP in 1974 to champion “concerned photography”—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image. Since its inception, ICP has presented more than 700 exhibitions, provided thousands of classes, and hosted a wide variety of public programs. ICP launched its new integrated center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in January 2020. Located at 79 Essex Street, ICP is the cultural anchor of Essex Crossing, one of the most highly anticipated and expansive mixed-use developments in New York City. ICP pays respect to the original stewards of this land, the Lenape people, and other Indigenous communities. Visit icp.org to learn more about the museum and its programs.
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