The Press Department, Bell Telephone Department, New York World’s Fair, 1939. Images courtesy W. M. Hunt / Collection Blind Pirate, New York and International Center of Photography.
Expositions du 28/9/2015 au 8/1/2016 Terminé
International Center of Photography (ICP) 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street New York NY 10036 USA Site web: http://www.icp.org
International Center of Photography (ICP) 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street New York NY 10036 USA Site web: http://www.icp.org
HUNT’S THREE RING CIRCUS
AMERICAN GROUPS BEFORE 1950
The exhibition features more than 100 photographs and video from a private collection of unusual vintage images of American crowds, rallies, assemblies, teams, organizations, fraternities, unions, clubs, tribes, conventions, and alliances, all made before 1950.
This colorful, touching, and often humorous look at American cultural and social history is not, as scholar Alison Nordström writes, “an objective survey of a genre but a subjective and personally chosen collection of found photographs, each of which departs in some delightful way from the typical.”
“As ICP prepares for our move to the Bowery, we’re collaborating with other organizations to continue to present exhibitions before our new space is open. We’re pleased to be partnering with the W. M. Hunt Collection and the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery to feature this uniquely American work,” said Mark Lubell, ICP’s executive director.
Hunt’s Three Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950is organized by ICP and W. M. Hunt, a collector and curator based in New York.
It is sponsored by the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, in partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle, as a community-based public service. Highlights from this collection were on view at Foto/Industria in Bologna in 2013 and Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles in 2014, after debuting at the Houston Center for Photography in 2012. Dancing Bear Press has published a limited-edition book of selected works from the collection of W. M. Hunt.
