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"Modernist photography" Ã New York
Selections from the Daniel Cowin collection
The years between the World Wars witnessed a burst of extraordinary innovation in visual culture, nowhere more so than in the realm of photography. Enthusiasm for the advent of an urban, technological civilization reached a peak during this period. By the late 1920s, in both Europe and America, a host of inventive young photographers—often allied with such avant-garde movements as Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and the New Objectivity—had created an image of dynamism and glittering prosperity that was widely felt to mirror the new metropolis. By the early 1930s this euphoric image was shatter...
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André Kertész à New York
André Kertész (1894-1985) has been hailed as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Working intuitively, he captured the poetry of modern urban life with its quiet, often overlooked incidents and odd, occasionally comic, or even bizarre juxtapositions. He endeavored "to give meaning to everything" about him with his camera, "to make photographs as by reflection in a mirror, unmanipulated and direct as in life." Combining this seemingly artless spontaneity with a sophisticated understanding of composition, Kertész created a purely photographic idiom that celebrates direct observation of the everyday. Neither a s...
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"El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers" Ã New York: acquisitions de photographies
The entire set of exhibition prints that comprised El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers was recently donated to ICP's collection. These images were first presented at ICP in 1984, at the height of that country's civil war; following its premiere at ICP, the exhibition traveled extensively throughout the U.S.—to museums as well as churches, college galleries, and public libraries—and became a notable instance of photographers' working collaboratively to raise public awareness about an urgent political situation.
Background of the conflict In 1979, a coup d'etat in El Salvador initiated a bloody twelve-year civil war. The subsequ...
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