International Center of Photography

"I'm thrilled to teach my first course at ICP. When I started my career in photography, I took several courses and attended lectures at ICP that were instrumental in shaping my vision and now coming full circle back. Born in Cuba and raised in NYC, I earned my photography degree from SVA. I will be teaching the foundation course Photography 1: The Camera, which requires no previous knowledge and is perfect for beginners. Together, we will explore the camera as an amazing tool and use it as a voice and a ticket to a world of experiences. "With over 30 years of global travel...My portfolio is a rich tapestry of diverse people and stories. This will be a fantastic opportunity to share my passion and expertise with my students...empowering them to feel confident and inspired with their cameras in hand." Starting September 8 (Sunday) Dario Acosta teaches Photography I: The Camera at ICP. This is the perfect course for those looking to get started using their cameras! Find this course and all 20 upcoming beginner-level courses at https://bit.ly/3XjEH06. Images © Dario Acosta, final image - Dario Acosta

This coming fall, it's all about street photography at ICP! We are taking to the streets with courses that will bring you on imagemaking journeys throughout NYC. Join us soon for: ⭐️ The Beach As Street: A Snapshot of Calm and Chaos, Erica Reade, August 28–Sept 25 ⭐️ From the Museum and into the Streets, Saul Robbins, Sept 4–Oct 2 ⭐️ Photographing New York: The Lower East Side, Brian Rose, Sept 5–Nov 7 ⭐️ Street Photography: Curiosity, Instinct, and Comfortable Shoes, Matthew Septimus, Sept 9–Oct 7 ⭐️ Where Were We? A Queer Poetics of the Street, Patricia Silva, Sept 26–Oct 24 ⭐️ iPhone Street Photography, Hannah La Follette Ryan, Oct 9–Nov 11 ⭐️ On the Street: Approaching Strangers, Greg Miller, Oct 19 & 20 ⭐️ Urban Photography - Finding Your Point of View, Jayne Wexler, Oct 26 & 27 Learn more at https://bit.ly/4dQm3T6. Images © Jayne Wexler, Patricia Silva, Hannah La Follette Ryan, Brian Rose (detail)

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born today in 1908. His photographs may be summed up through a phrase of his own: "the decisive moment," the magical instant when the world falls into apparent order and meaning, and may be apprehended by a gifted photographer. Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup, and studied literature at Cambridge University in 1928-29. He began photographing in 1931 and purchased a Leica in 1933. He joined an ethnographic expedition to Mexico the next year, and in 1935 studied cinematography with Paul Strand. Through 1944 and 1945, Cartier-Bresson photographed the occupation of France and its liberation. In 1947 he co-founded the Magnum agency with Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), and George Rodger and he spent the next twenty years traveling around the world. He received the Overseas Press Club Award four times; the American Society of Magazine Photographers award in 1953; and the Prix de la Société Française de Photographie in 1959, among other honors. See more works by Cartier-Bresson in ICP's collection by visiting https://lnkd.in/e446_tiE Text by Lisa Soccio Images: 1: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Romania, 1975, Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, in memory of Robert Capa and David Seymour, 1994 (288.1994) 2: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Valencia, Spain, 1933, Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, in memory of Robert Capa and David Seymour, 1994 (271.1994) 3: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roman amphitheater, Valencia, Spain, 1933, Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, in memory of Robert Capa and David Seymour, 1994 (203.1994) 4: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Boston Common, 1947, Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, in memory of Robert Capa and David Seymour, 1994 (222.1994) 5: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Acapulco, Mexico, 1964,Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, in memory of Robert Capa and David Seymour, 1994, Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, in memory of Robert Capa and David Seymour, 1994 (235.1994)

We have a jam-packed lineup of programming for Photobook Fest this September! Leading figures in the photobook world discuss new releases and trends in publishing, plus we host a full slate of tours and hands-on workshops. Saturday includes talks on new photobook releases “Keep the Kid Alive” & “Rotting from Within” presented with Aperture and Loose Joints, looks at The Cities We Need with MIT Press and To the Ends of the Earth with GOST, a discussion on publishing in South America presented with Foto Féminas / LA CHANCLETA VOLADORA + RAYA EDITORIAL, a feature on the “Class of 2024:” The Future of Photography," with SCAD and Thames and Hudson, and much more. Sunday, join us for programs like workshops on Polaroid emulsion lifting, DIY zines, and personal memoirs, plus a discussion on new release "Omen: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive" with Artbook DAP / RM, Elevating Artists through Publishing and Design with KGP Monolith, a screening of Good Nature with 'cademy, and a look at risograph printing presented in partnership with Printed Matter. Watch this space for more info on programs. The full programming and list of artist signings is at pbf.icp.org. All programs are free with your Photobook Fest ticket! Thank you to MPB for supporting Photobook Fest. Images of 2023 Photobook Fest © Scott Rudd for ICP

Responsible for taking the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the world wars, Vishniac's work spans early engagements with modernism in Weimar Berlin to his pioneering scientific research and color photomicroscopy in the 1950s and 60s.⁠ ⁠ Here are images of him with his daughter, Mara, a picture of his wife in 1920, and pages from his personal scrapbook documenting Vishniac's ideas, collages, and inspiration.⁠ These items come from ICP's collection, which comprises over 200,000 images. Explore highlights from the collection in Selections from ICP at 50, currently on view in the galleries through January 6! ⁠ Images:⁠ 1: [Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara, Wertheim department store, Berlin], 1930, Gift of James Fraser, 2011 (2011.56.1)⁠ 2: Arnold Newman, Roman Vishniac, New York, 1978, Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, 2005 (436.2005)⁠ 3: Roman Vishniac, [Roman Vishniac’s wife Luta, Latvia], 1920 (printed 2012) (2012.80.59)⁠ 4: Roman Vishniac, Enterance to Kazimierz, the Jewish district of Krakow, 1935-38, Krakow, Poland, Museum Purchase, International Fund for Concerned Photography, 1974 (101.1974)⁠ 5-10: Roman Vishniac, [Roman Vishniac's personal scrapbook], 1940s-1950s, Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, 2013 ⁠ (MVK.2008.scrapbookpage.4)⁠ (MVK.2008.scrapbookpage.20)⁠ (MVK.2008.scrapbookpage.34)⁠ (MVK.2008.scrapbookpage.30)⁠ (MVK.2008.scrapbookpage.37)⁠ (MVK.2008.scrapbookpage.38)⁠

Lotte Jacobi was born in 1896 today, in Thorn, Germany. She took her first photograph with a pinhole camera at the age of twelve and studied literature and art history at the Academy of Posen. Continuing the tradition established by her photographer father, grandfather, and great-grandfather (who had studied with Daguerre), she attended the Bavarian State Academy of Photography and the University of Munich. ⁠ ⁠ Jacobi's Berlin portraits of such figures as Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill and László Moholy-Nagy, were stylistically influenced by both Alfred Stieglitz and Albert Renger-Patzsch, and illustrate the city's vibrant cultural life. She fled the Nazis and opened her own studio in New York, which she maintained until 1955. After closing her studio, Jacobi moved to Deering, New Hampshire, where she maintained a studio and gallery. She co-founded the photography department at the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester in 1970. ⁠ ⁠ Jacobi's work was shown at ICP in the 1979 exhibition Recollections: Ten Women of Photography, and also featured in a retrospective at the museum in 1993. She built her reputation on the strength of her portraiture, but later in her career as her surroundings changed, so did the character of her work: in the 1950s, she began to make abstract images and landscapes. Her "photogenics" of the 1950s are cameraless photographs, in which pieces of glass or twisted cellophane were used to interrupt the beams from a flashlight positioned above a piece of photographic paper.⁠ ⁠ Text (reduced) by Meredith Fisher⁠ Images by Lotte Jacobi⁠ ⁠ Images:⁠ 1: Beate Sauerlander, Amityville, Long Island, New York, 1940, Gift of Bernadette Hunter, 1986 (48.1986)⁠ 2: Anton Walbrook, actor, Berlin, Germany, 1933, Gift of Bernadette Hunter, 1986 (42.1986)⁠ 3: Pauline Koner, dancer, New York, New York, ca. 1937, Gift of June Sidman, 1981 (129.1981)⁠ 4: Anna Mae Wong, actress, Berlin, Germany, ca. 1931, Gift of Bernadette Hunter, 1986 (38.1986)⁠ 5: Mrs. Limbosch, Brussels, Belgium, 1963, Gift of Bernadette Hunter, 1986 (53.1986)

Happy (almost) World Photography Day! Come visit this weekend, we are FREE Saturday–Monday, August 17–19.⁠ Tix must be reserved in advance—find those here: https://lnkd.in/e2NMGqZm ⁠ Image: ⁠ 1: Weegee, [Weegee's hand holding the shutter release cable of Graflex Speed Graphic camera], 1943 (19922.1993)⁠ 2: Weegee, [Afternoon crowd at Coney Island, Brooklyn], 1940 (weegee portfolio 4)⁠ ⁠

This fall, explore street photography from around the world, as seen through the lens of more than 30 international artists! Opening at ICP on the evening of September 26, We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets will be an expansive re-viewing of street photography that highlights the genre's unique viewpoints on local culture and unfolding events. Guest curated by Isolde Brielmaier, PhD, with Noa Wynn, We Are Here opens up important discussions on how street photographers document dramatic and everyday moments in our public spaces—from street style to protests—inviting viewers to confront the complexities and richness of our world. Reserve your tickets at icp.org/wearehere. Images © Trevor Stuurman, Feng Li, Janette Beckman (detail)

World Photography Day is August 19— Celebrate with us at ICP all weekend long! The museum will be FREE from Saturday August 17–Monday August 19. ⁠ ⁠ Reserve your tickets in advance at the link in bio to come enjoy the exhibitions on view: Selections from ICP at 50, Shared Spaces: 2024 Recent Graduates Exhibition, and Yto Barrada: Part–Time Abstractionist. ⁠ ⁠ We are also open Friday August 16 at our $10 Summer Fridays price. ⁠ ⁠ Image:⁠ Weegee, [Self portrait distortion}, ca. 1950, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox (3051.1993)⁠

As the 2024 Olympics comes to a close– let's take a dive into these sporty collages from 1928.⁠ ⁠ Just a decade after Russian Revolution, the Soviet government launched the Spartakiada, a kind of proletarian Olympics intended to demonstrate physical and political superiority and planned as a counterweight to the official 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. ⁠ ⁠ The Supreme Council of Physical Culture commissioned avant-garde artist Gustav Klutsis (1895-1938) to design promotional materials and mailers for the games. Klutsis immediately set to work creating nine color postcards, one for each sport, including diving, equestrian events, and motorcycle racing—and they are each tiny masterpieces of modernist design. ⁠ ⁠ Klutsis even added little portraits of the late Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin to link the sporting activities to the achievements of the state—a point underscored by propagandistic slogans such as “Love live the unity of the worker sportsmen of all countries!” ⁠ ⁠ Images:⁠ Gustav Klutsis, [Postcard for the Spartakiada (All-Union Olympiad), Moscow], Moscow, Russia, 1928, Museum Purchase, Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Acquisitions Fund, 2012 ⁠ 2012.64.1⁠ 2012.64.2⁠ 2012.64.3⁠ 2012.64.4⁠ 2012.64.5⁠ 2012.64.6⁠ 2012.64.7⁠ 2012.64.8⁠ 2012.64.9