All posts filed under “Photography”

Masterpieces & Curiosities: Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage at The Jewish Museum, September 25, 2015 – February 14, 2016

“This exhibition focuses on Stieglitz’s enduring 1907 photogravure of steerage-class passengers aboard the ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm II. This much-reproduced image has often been regarded as evidence of the poor conditions under which many immigrants arrived in America, but in fact was taken on a voyage… Read More

When We Were Soldiers… once and young, a photographic installation by Bettina WitteVeen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital Building, September 19 – October 24

“We are not hard-wired for war. Warfare is a tragic aberration of the neurotic aspects of a society. Let me explain that I am an abolitionist of warfare. Like the abolitionists of slavery who published painful images to show the inhumanity of slavery and to rally support, I… Read More

Rock Palaces of New York, The Fillmore East and The Academy of Music by Amalie R. Rothschild and Bill Green at Morrison Hotel Gallery, through June 3, 2015

“This time capsule exhibit takes us back to when rock n’ roll was shamanistic, glamorous, and outrageous, and features the work of award-winning filmmaker and photographer Amalie R. Rothschild alongside lost treasures from photography wunderkind Bill Green.” — Morrison Hotel Gallery Images courtesy Morrison Hotel Gallery

Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971 at The Museum of Modern Art, May 17 – October 4, 2015

“The photographers Harry Shunk (German, 1924–2006) and János Kender (Hungarian, 1937–2009) worked together under the name Shunk-Kender from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, based first in Paris and then in New York. Shunk-Kender photographed artworks, events, and landmark exhibitions of avant-garde movements of… Read More