ICP Lecture Series 2014: Justine Kurland International Center of Photography 2024-10-23 | ICP Lecture Series 2014: Justine Kurland
Curator Helen Molesworth on Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie | ICP: Face to Face International Center of Photography 2023-04-03 | Writer and curator Helen Molesworth explains her approach to organizing portraits of art world luminaries by three prominent portraitists as part of the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie,” which is on view through May 1, 2023.Learn more about the exhibition here: bit.ly/3nu13wGBe sure to follow ICP onInstagram: instagram.com/icpFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/internationa...Twitter: twitter.com/ICPhotog
Catherine Opie on Portrait Photography in the Instagram Age | ICP: Face to Face International Center of Photography 2023-04-03 | Photographer Catherine Opie talks about incorporating the history of portraiture in her work and how historical photographic techniques can "hold" the viewer.Opie’s work is on view as part of the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie” through May 1, 2023. The show presents portraits of art world luminaries by three prominent portraitists.Learn more about the exhibition here: bit.ly/3nu13wGBe sure to follow ICP onInstagram: instagram.com/icpFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/internationa...Twitter: twitter.com/ICPhotog
Julie Mehretu on How You Really Capture a Portrait | ICP: Face to Face International Center of Photography 2023-04-03 | Artist Julie Mehretu discusses her role in Tacita Dean’s film “One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting” (2021), which records a conversation between the 49-year-old artist and 99-year-old painter Luchita Hurtado about how to really capture a portrait of someone.The film is on view as part of the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie” through May 1, 2023. The show presents portraits of art world luminaries by three prominent portraitists.Learn more about the exhibition here: bit.ly/3nu13wGBe sure to follow ICP onInstagram: instagram.com/icpFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/internationa...Twitter: twitter.com/ICPhotog
Fran Lebowitz on Why She Prefers a Flattering Photograph to a Great One | ICP: Face to Face International Center of Photography 2023-04-03 | Author Fran Lebowitz discusses her preference of having a flattering photograph over a great one, as well as the Brigitte Lacombe portrait prominently displayed on her MetroCard and passport.Fran Lebowitz’s portrait by Lacombe is on view at the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie,” through May 1, 2023. The show presents portraits of art world luminaries by three prominent portraitists.Learn more about the exhibition here: bit.ly/3nu13wGBe sure to follow ICP onInstagram: instagram.com/icpFacebook: facebook.com/internationalcenterofphotographyTwitter: twitter.com/ICPhotog
2023 Infinity Award: Contemporary Photography and New Media—Poulomi Basu International Center of Photography 2023-03-30 | The International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. In 2023, we recognize artists working in photojournalism, contemporary photography, new media, and critical writing, research, and theory. All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical funding for the entire institution.Poulomi Basu has become widely known for her influential works Blood Speaks, Centralia, To Conquer Her Land, Fireflies, to name a few. Her focus on the intersectionality of ecological, racial, cultural, and political issues experienced specifically by womxn of the global south, such as herself gives agency to those often considered voiceless, ferociously advocating for womxn through her practice as an artist and activist for more than a decade. Shifting between mediums, Basu has to date worked with photography, performance, installation, virtual reality, and film influenced by magical realism, sci-fi, and speculative fiction. Her first photobook Centralia was published by Dewi Lewis in 2020. The book and exhibition won the 2020 Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award Jury Prize, and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize among many others. She was invited to SXSW 2019 and 78th La Bienale Cinema Venezia ‘Production Bridge.’ Basu was selected for Sundance Fellowship, she is a National Geographic Explorer, and Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellow. Her works are part of public collections such as Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Autograph, London (UK); Museum of Modern Art (Special Collections) Martin Parr Foundation (UK); Rencontres d’Arles (FR) amongst others.
2023 Infinity Award: Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism—Zora J Murff International Center of Photography 2023-03-30 | *This video contains depictions of police violence regarding Michael Brown at 0:38–1:01.The International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. In 2023, we recognize artists working in photojournalism, contemporary photography, new media, and critical writing, research, and theory. All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical funding for the entire institution.Zora J Murff (born in Des Moines, Iowa, 1987) is an artist and educator living in Northwest Arkansas. In 2019, Murff was named an Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist, a PDN 30 honoree, and a Light Work Artist-in Residence; he was one of eight artists chosen for the most recent iteration of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography series, Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020. Murff’s books include Corrections (2015); LOST, Omaha (2018); and At No Point In Between (2019). His work was presented at the 2021 Rencontres d’Arles, France, as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award and his works are housed in many notable US institutions and collections. “Zora J Murff. He is Black; therefore, he is.”
2023 Infinity Award: Critical Writing, Research, and Theory—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay International Center of Photography 2023-03-30 | The International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. In 2023, we recognize artists working in photojournalism, contemporary photography, new media, and critical writing, research, and theory. All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical funding for the entire institution. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University, a film essayist, and curator of archives and exhibitions. Her books include: Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019); Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012); The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008); From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, (Pluto Press, 2011). Her potential histories, archives and curatorial work include: The Natural History of Rape (Berlin Biennale, 2022); Errata (Tapiès Foundation, 2019, HKW, Berlin, 2020), Enough! The Natural Violence of New World Order, (F/Stop photography festival, Leipzig, 2016), Act of State 1967-2007 – Israeli Regime of Occupation 1967-2007, (Centre Pompidou, 2016, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa Fotografico, 2020); The Body Politic [in Really Useful Knowledge, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW], Reina Sofia, Madrid; Potential History of Palestine (2012, Stuk / Artefact, Louven), Untaken Photographs (2010, Igor Zabel Award, The Moderna galerija, Lubliana; Zochrot, Tel Aviv). Among her film-essays: The world like a Jewel in the Hand – Unlearning Imperial Plunder II (2022); Un-documented: Undoing Imperial Plunder (2019); Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47-48 (2012); I Also Dwell Among Your Own People: Conversations with Azmi Bishara (2004) & The Food Chain (2004).
2023 Infinity Award: Trustees Award—Joyce Cowin International Center of Photography 2023-03-30 | The International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. In 2023, we recognize artists working in photojournalism, contemporary photography, new media, and critical writing, research, and theory. All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical funding for the entire institution.
2023 Infinity Award: Lifetime Achievement—Ming Smith International Center of Photography 2023-03-30 | The International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. In 2023, we recognize artists working in photojournalism, contemporary photography, new media, and critical writing, research, and theory. All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical funding for the entire institution. Harlem-based, Detroit-born, Ming Smith attended the famous Howard University, Washington, DC. Ming Smith first became a photographer when she was given a camera, and was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers in New York in the 1960s, working to document black life. Smith would go on to be the first black woman photographer to be included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Smith’s photography focused on black-and-white street photography, a format that she described as ‘you have to catch a moment that would never ever return again, and do it justice.’ Smith has often described her work as ‘celebrating the struggle, the survival and to find grace in it.’ Many of Smith’s subjects were well-known black cultural figures from Nina Simone, Grace Jones and Alice Coltrane: all from her neighborhood. Smith has cited music as being a big influence in her work, specifically the genres of jazz and the blues. She has likened her work to the blues, saying, “in the art of photography, I’m dealing with light, I’m dealing with all these elements, getting that precise moment. Getting the feeling — to put it simply, these pieces are like the blues.” As an artist, recognition for her work only came recently thanks to several high-profile exhibitions. Not limited to photography she also uses post production techniques, collage and paint to create her works. Smith was recently included in Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern in collaboration with Brooklyn Museum, Crystal Bridges and The Broad. She was also featured in Brooklyn Museum’s We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85. Smith’s work is in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. She was included in MoMA’s 2010 seminal exhibition, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography.
Paul Pfeiffer: Still Life International Center of Photography 2023-02-23 | Paul Pfeiffer: Still Life, presented by ICP in partnership with MTA Arts & Design, features site-specific artwork by artist Paul Pfeiffer in the cultural corridor of Grand Central Madison, a new 700,000-square-foot Long Island Rail Road terminal below Grand Central along Madison Avenue between 43rd and 48th Streets in Manhattan. Learn more by visiting bit.ly/3R80raO. Still Life—which was made in collaboration with the iconic street performer known as “Da Gold Man,” who has appeared as a living statue on the sidewalks of Times Square for over seventeen years—pays homage to the performer with large-scale photographs installed in double-sided light boxes. Still Life will be the first in a series of site-specific public art installations commissioned and curated by ICP for Grand Central Madison. Still Life is curated by ICP's Executive Director David E. Little with Izzy Dow.
2021 ICP Spotlights International Center of Photography 2021-11-04 | Since 2012, ICP’s annual Spotlights benefit has honored women in visual arts working in photography and film. Through intimate conversations that dive deep on critical issues of the day, our annual benefit spotlights a broad range of voices and raises critical funding for ICP’s education and exhibition programs.Co-chaired by ICP Trustee Peggy Anderson and Debby Hymowitz, this year’s benefit celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Spotlights and recognizes photographic artist Catherine Opie. All proceeds provide important funding for ICP’s education and exhibition programs. Visit bit.ly/icpspotlights2021 to donate today! Visit ICP’s Instagram page for more ICP Spotlights content and upcoming activations at instagram.com/icp Thank you to Christian Louboutin (http://christianlouboutin.com) for making this inspiring event possible, and to our creative production partners at Makeout (https://makeout.nyc/) for producing this year’s event.
2020 ICP Spotlights International Center of Photography 2020-10-27 | Since 2012, the International Center of Photography’s annual Spotlights benefit has honored women in visual arts working in photography and film. Each year, this event raises critical funding for ICP’s education and exhibition programs through the celebration of artists, imagemakers, and leaders in the field of imagemaking. Co-chaired by contemporary artists Zoë Buckman and Sheree Hovsepian and presented by Christian Louboutin, this year’s benefit will recognize director of Michelle Obama’s documentary Becoming, Nadia Hallgren, photographer and visual artist, Deana Lawson, and Editor in Chief of Teen Vogue, Lindsay Peoples Wagner, who will be in conversation with ICP Curator-at-Large, Isolde Brielmaier. The online program will be followed by a ticketed live Q&A with the 2020 Honorees. All proceeds provide critical funding for ICP’s education and exhibition programs. Visit http://bit.ly/icpspotlights or text SPOTLIGHTS to 44-321 (US only) to donate today! Visit http://icpalumniprints.com now to browse our first online ICP Alumni Print Sale! To support our ICP family during this challenging moment, this new initiative will deliver 100% of proceeds back to alumni artists who have been financially impacted by the events of 2020. Visit ICP’s Instagram page for more ICP Spotlights content and upcoming activations at instagram.com/icp/. Thank you to Christian Louboutin (http://christianlouboutin.com) for making this inspiring event possible, and to our creative production partners at Makeout (https://makeout.nyc/) for producing the sensational 2020 ICP Spotlights Benefit!
COVID New York: Jeff Mermelstein International Center of Photography 2020-10-23 | In March 2020, ICP commissioned five photographers based in various parts of New York to make work in response to the COVID-19 crisis. They are Yuki Iwamura, Sarah Blesener, Jeenah Moon, Gaia Squarci, and Jeff Mermelstein. Although they are from very different cultural backgrounds, all are alumni of ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs. They worked through the month of April, when the virus was at its initial peak in the city.Each photographer’s experience was different, and each made a distinctive approach. The results include reportage, image-text storytelling, autobiography, fiction, and street photography. The restrictions under which they worked were severe, but restrictions often motivate image makers to be resourceful, to find new means of expression. Breaking with expectations of themselves and the medium, they experimented in pursuit of visual strategies to shed important light upon what the people of the city endured that month.The work is on view as part of COVID New York: Five ICP Alumni.
COVID New York: Jeenah Moon International Center of Photography 2020-10-23 | In March 2020, ICP commissioned five photographers based in various parts of New York to make work in response to the COVID-19 crisis. They are Yuki Iwamura, Sarah Blesener, Jeenah Moon, Gaia Squarci, and Jeff Mermelstein. Although they are from very different cultural backgrounds, all are alumni of ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs. They worked through the month of April, when the virus was at its initial peak in the city.Each photographer’s experience was different, and each made a distinctive approach. The results include reportage, image-text storytelling, autobiography, fiction, and street photography. The restrictions under which they worked were severe, but restrictions often motivate image makers to be resourceful, to find new means of expression. Breaking with expectations of themselves and the medium, they experimented in pursuit of visual strategies to shed important light upon what the people of the city endured that month.The work is on view as part of COVID New York: Five ICP Alumni.
COVID New York: Yuki Iwamura International Center of Photography 2020-10-23 | In March 2020, ICP commissioned five photographers based in various parts of New York to make work in response to the COVID-19 crisis. They are Yuki Iwamura, Sarah Blesener, Jeenah Moon, Gaia Squarci, and Jeff Mermelstein. Although they are from very different cultural backgrounds, all are alumni of ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs. They worked through the month of April, when the virus was at its initial peak in the city.Each photographer’s experience was different, and each made a distinctive approach. The results include reportage, image-text storytelling, autobiography, fiction, and street photography. The restrictions under which they worked were severe, but restrictions often motivate image makers to be resourceful, to find new means of expression. Breaking with expectations of themselves and the medium, they experimented in pursuit of visual strategies to shed important light upon what the people of the city endured that month.The work is on view as part of COVID New York: Five ICP Alumni.
COVID New York: Sarah Blesener International Center of Photography 2020-10-23 | In March 2020, ICP commissioned five photographers based in various parts of New York to make work in response to the COVID-19 crisis. They are Yuki Iwamura, Sarah Blesener, Jeenah Moon, Gaia Squarci, and Jeff Mermelstein. Although they are from very different cultural backgrounds, all are alumni of ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs. They worked through the month of April, when the virus was at its initial peak in the city.Each photographer’s experience was different, and each made a distinctive approach. The results include reportage, image-text storytelling, autobiography, fiction, and street photography. The restrictions under which they worked were severe, but restrictions often motivate image makers to be resourceful, to find new means of expression. Breaking with expectations of themselves and the medium, they experimented in pursuit of visual strategies to shed important light upon what the people of the city endured that month.The work is on view as part of COVID New York: Five ICP Alumni.
COVID New York: Gaia Squarci International Center of Photography 2020-10-23 | In March 2020, ICP commissioned five photographers based in various parts of New York to make work in response to the COVID-19 crisis. They are Yuki Iwamura, Sarah Blesener, Jeenah Moon, Gaia Squarci, and Jeff Mermelstein. Although they are from very different cultural backgrounds, all are alumni of ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs. They worked through the month of April, when the virus was at its initial peak in the city.Each photographer’s experience was different, and each made a distinctive approach. The results include reportage, image-text storytelling, autobiography, fiction, and street photography. The restrictions under which they worked were severe, but restrictions often motivate image makers to be resourceful, to find new means of expression. Breaking with expectations of themselves and the medium, they experimented in pursuit of visual strategies to shed important light upon what the people of the city endured that month.The work is on view as part of COVID New York: Five ICP Alumni.
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis International Center of Photography 2020-10-23 | With contributions from over sixty countries, this evolving exhibition draws from the tens of thousands of images being posted with the hashtag launched by ICP in March, inviting our global community to make and share images of their experiences. From COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter to the California fires and demonstrations against authoritarian regimes, #ICPConcerned will present 1000 images of our time, wrapping around ICP’s largest gallery space.
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis International Center of Photography 2020-09-22 | With contributions from over sixty countries, this evolving exhibition draws from the tens of thousands of images being posted with the hashtag launched by ICP in March, inviting our global community to make and share images of their experiences. From COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter to the California fires and demonstrations against authoritarian regimes, #ICPConcerned will present 1000 images of our time, wrapping around ICP’s largest gallery space.
2020 Infinity Award: Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism—Hannah Reyes Morales International Center of Photography 2020-05-20 | Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate. All proceeds directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs.Hannah Reyes Morales documents tenderness amidst adversity. Her photography, both visceral and intimate, explores how resilience is embodied in daily life. She grew up in Manila, witnessing loved ones depart from home each year. These departures, along with the discovery of a shelf of dusty photographic magazines, stirred her interest in concerned photography. Morales has reported on forced marriages in Cambodia, documented women’s experiences with assault in the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, explored the long-term effects of colonization on women’s bodies in the Philippines, photographed the toll of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, and documented the Filipino Diaspora. In 2019, she participated in the World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass and received the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award. She is a 2020 National Geographic Explorer and the World Economic Forum named her a cultural leader in its ASEAN forum. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Geographic Magazine, among others.Thank you to Harbers Studios for executive producing and MediaStorm for producing this captivating film.
2020 Infinity Award: Applied—Nadine Ijewere International Center of Photography 2020-05-20 | Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate. All proceeds directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs.Nadine Ijewere is a south-east London born photographer. Her work focuses primarily on the subjects of identity and diversity, informed by her own Nigerian/Jamaican background. She is drawn to non-traditional faces with the aim of showcasing a new standard of beauty and giving life to the uniqueness of disparate cultures. When she photographed Dua Lipa, Binx Walton, and Letitia Wright for a Vogue cover story in 2018, she became the first woman of color to shoot the cover of any Vogue in the magazine’s then 125-year history. Ijewere studied photography at the London College of Fashion and while there, became concerned about the unsettling undertones in fashion imagery, particularly the stereotypes used in the portrayal of non-Western cultures. During her final year she started casting mixed-race models who fell outside the industry norm—something that has become central to her work. She has worked with Dior, Hermes, Nina Ricci, Valentino, Vogue, British Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, and Garage magazine.Thank you to Harbers Studios for executive producing and MediaStorm for producing this captivating film.
2020 ICP Infinity Awards: Online Platforms and New Media—The 1619 Project, New York Times Magazine International Center of Photography 2020-05-20 | Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate. All proceeds directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs.The 1619 Project by the New York Times Magazine commemorates the 400th anniversary of the start of American slavery. It is a multimedia editorial initiative that catalogs the legacy of slavery in contemporary American society, as well as the contributions of black Americans in actualizing this country’s founding ideals of democracy, liberty, and equality. It has sparked an overdue reckoning with how the story of America is told, and has radically reframed how millions of Americans understand their own history. The project includes eleven essays that reveal how slavery has affected key facets of contemporary America, including modern capitalism, health care, the prison system, music, sugar, and even rush-hour traffic. It also includes a special broadsheet section, literary timeline, and multi-episode podcast series. Combined, these works make the case that slavery and its vestiges, as well as the African presence in the United States, account for much that makes this country unique: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its commitment to equality, its diet and popular music, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, its slang, its legal system, and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that plague it to this day.Thank you to Harbers Studios for executive producing and MediaStorm for producing this captivating film.
2020 Infinity Award: Lifetime Achievement—Don McCullin International Center of Photography 2020-05-20 | Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate. All proceeds directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs.Sir Don McCullin was born in London and spent his childhood in the economically depressed area of Finsbury Park. He left school at the age of fourteen following the death of his father and worked at odd jobs to support himself joining the Royal Air Force as an aerial photography assistant. His first reportage on “The Guvnors,” a youth gang from his childhood neighborhood, was published in The Observer in February 1959. In 1961, he travelled to Berlin to witness the construction of the wall that came to symbolize the Cold War. He photographed his first open conflict essay about the civil war in Cyprus in 1964. In 1966 he began an eighteen-year affiliation with the London Sunday Times Magazine, covering major conflicts and battlefields — the Congo, Biafra, Israel, Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Bangladesh, Lebanon, El Salvador, Iraq, and Syria — and became recognized both as a master of black-and-white photography and as a legendary war photographer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including his acclaimed autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour. Previous recognition includes two Premier Awards from World Press Photo, the 2006 ICP Infinity Awards Cornell Capa Award, and the 2016 Master of Photography at Photo London. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and was knighted in 2017. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including a full retrospective of his career presented by London’s Tate Britain in 2019.Thank you to Harbers Studios for executive producing and MediaStorm for producing this captivating film.
The 2020 International Center of Photography Virtual Infinity Awards International Center of Photography 2020-05-19 | Join us for the virtual ICP Infinity Awards, a new way to celebrate our longstanding event honoring the community of artists, journalists, and honorees who remind us of the importance of “concerned photography” on which ICP was founded.Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate and the ICP Board of Trustees will match your gift dollar-for-dollar, up to $200,000. Donate today and double your impact.Update: Due to overwhelming response, our website is experiencing slight technical difficulties - please email membership@icp.org if you're having trouble donating! All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical crisis funding for the entire institution.Our 2020 Honorees are:Lifetime Achievement: Don McCullin icp.org/infinity-awards/don-mccullin-2020Online Platform and New Media: The 1619 Project of the New York Times Magazine icp.org/infinity-awards/the-1619-projectDocumentary Practice and Visual Journalism: Hannah Reyes Morales icp.org/infinity-awards/hannah-reyes-moralesApplied: Nadine Ijewere icp.org/infinity-awards/nadine-ijewereDuring the gala, share a selfie using #InfinityAwards and see who else is joining at ICP’s Instagram page: instagram.com/icpThank you to Hearst Corporation for their sponsorship, and to Harbers Studios for executive producing and MediaStorm for producing tonight’s captivating films.
ICP Opening Party at 79 Essex Street International Center of Photography 2020-01-24 | We had lines around the block for our opening night party!
International Center of Photography School - Fall 2019 Promo International Center of Photography 2020-01-09 | School’s in session at ICP! We offer inspiration and education for imagemakers at every level, from Teen Academy to Continuing Education to Part-Time, One-Year Certificate, and MFA programs. Join us this fall in Midtown or this winter at our new home at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side.
Highlights from the 35th Annual ICP Infinity Awards International Center of Photography 2020-01-09 | The International Center of Photography’s annual Infinity Awards honors outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts.2019 Award WinnersLIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Rosalind Fox SolomonART: Dawoud BeyCRITICAL WRITING AND RESEARCH: Zadie Smith, “Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory” for the New Yorker; excerpted from Deana Lawson: an Aperture Monograph (September 2018) EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER: Jess T. DuganSPECIAL PRESENTATION: Shahidul Alam
2019 Infinity Award: Lifetime Achievement—Rosalind Fox Solomon International Center of Photography 2019-09-05 | Rosalind Fox Solomon travels the world to find her subjects. She enters closed circles and takes risks in terms of personal experience and artistic practice. Her unflinching gaze at human vulnerability provokes strong emotions. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies from 1981 to 1984. Fox Solomon has had residencies at the Banff Center, Blue Mountain Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Corporation of Yaddo. Bruce Silverstein represents Fox Solomon in New York, where she has had four solo gallery exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of more than 50 museums around the world, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; George Eastman House, Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo de Arte de Lima; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Canada, Ontario; Photographische Sammlung, Cologne; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 1988, the Grey Gallery of Art at NYU mounted the 65-print exhibition Portraits in the Time of AIDS, selections of which were exhibited in 2015 at Paris Photo in the Salon d'Honneur. Books of her photographs include Chapalingas (Steidl 2003), Polish Shadow (Steidl 2006) THEM (Mack 2014), Got to Go (Mack 2016), and Liberty Theater (Mack 2018). Fox Solomon lives and works in New York.
2019 Infinity Award: Critical Writing and Research—Zadie Smith International Center of Photography 2019-09-05 | Zadie Smith’s first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Award. Her second, The Autograph Man, won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize. Smith’s third novel, On Beauty, won the Orange Prize for Fiction, a Commonwealth Writers’ Best Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her fourth novel, NW, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Swing Time, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker 2017. Her first essay collection, Changing My Mind, was published in 2009 and her second, Feel Free, in 2018. Smith is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists. She writes regularly for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and is a tenured professor of creative writing at New York University.
2019 Infinity Award: Emerging Photographer—Jess T. Dugan International Center of Photography 2019-09-05 | Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity, gender, sexuality, and community through photographic portraiture. She holds a BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a master of liberal arts in museum studies from Harvard University, and an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Diego Museum of Art; the Aperture Foundation, New York; the Transformer Station, Cleveland; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Dugan’s books include Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015) and To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults (Kehrer Verlag, 2018). She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and was selected by the White House as a Champion of Change. She is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, IL.
2019 Infinity Award: Special Presentation—Shahidul Alam International Center of Photography 2019-09-05 | Time magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, photographer, writer, and human rights activist Shahidul Alam, obtained a PhD in chemistry from London University before taking up photography. Returning to his native Bangladesh in 1984, he campaigned to bring down autocratic general Hussain Muhammad Ershad. In his pursuit of social justice, he set up the award-winning Drik Picture Library, Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, and Chobi Mela international photography festival. His book My Journey as a Witness has been described by John Morris, the legendary picture editor of Life magazine, as the “most important book ever written by a photographer.” A recognized public speaker, Alam has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale universities. He has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and Centre Georges Pompidou. His awards include a Lucie Award, as well as the Shilpakala Award, the highest cultural award given to Bangladeshi artists. Alam is the only person of color to have chaired the prestigious international jury of World Press Photo. He is a visiting professor of Sunderland University and an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2018, he was jailed and tortured for speaking out against his government’s repressive practices.
2019 Infinity Award: Art—Dawoud Bey International Center of Photography 2019-09-05 | Dawoud Bey began his career as an artist in 1975 with a series of photographs, Harlem, USA, that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such institutions as the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other museums worldwide. His works are included in the permanent collections of over 50 museums throughout the United States and Europe. In 2020, his work will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a recipient of a 2017 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur “genius grant”; a United States Artists fellow; and the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lucie Foundation, among other honors. Bey holds a master of fine arts degree from Yale University School of Art and is currently Professor of Art and a former Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago, where he has taught since 1998.
Multiply, Identify, Her International Center of Photography 2018-08-21 | This exhibition features an intergenerational group of women artists whose work explores representations of identity. Working in photography, video, and film, through assemblage, collage, multipart portraiture, and the use of avatars both analogue and digital, these artists reckon with the complex and changeable elements that inform who we are. These selves emerge from intersecting confrontations: with the artist’s own image, with the weight of personal and social stereotypes of race, class, gender, and age, and with the ambivalent promises of technology. These hybrid and multiple selves are depicted through mirroring and cloning, repetition and transfiguration.Made between the late 1990s and today, the work on view has roots in feminist art historical discussions of the ways artists have visualized selfhood as manifold, presenting portraits that in their multiplicity and radicality challenge patriarchal ways of looking that define narrowly while presuming broadly. Featuring work ranging from cut-photograph collage to an exploration of life-extending artificial intelligence, the exhibition considers our enduring impulse to push against the limits of the discrete human body—from stretching the boundaries of representation to anticipating a future in which our consciousness is not bound to a physical body at all.Transcending the singular, unified self is a psychological and political aspiration—to appear in all the disparate ways that we are—as well as a future, technology-enabled reality. The artists brought together here create a space in which the feeling of longing for other possibilities of being and being seen is made palpable.– Marina Chao, Curator
ICP at The Point International Center of Photography 2018-08-14 | Launched in 1997, ICP at THE POINT is a year-round collaboration that teaches photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking with the goal of fostering self-esteem, community development, and social change. The program includes weekly after-school classes for preteens and teens that take place in a classroom/studio, black-and-white darkroom, and gallery space.
Elliott Erwitt: Pittsburgh 1950 International Center of Photography 2018-07-26 | In 1950 Elliott Erwitt, then just twenty-two years old, set out to capture Pittsburgh’s transformation from an industrial city into a modern metropolis. Commissioned by Roy Stryker, the mastermind behind the large-scale documentary photography projects launched by the US government during the Great Depression, Erwitt shot hundreds of frames. His images recorded the city’s communities against the backdrop of urban change, highlighting his quiet observations with the playful wit that has defined his style for over five decades. After only four months, Erwitt was drafted into the army and sent to Germany, leaving his negatives behind in Stryker’s Pittsburgh Photographic Library. The negatives remained at the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for decades. This exhibition, organized by Assistant Curator Claartje van Dijk in association with the photographer, will present these images in the United States for the first time.
Edmund Clark: The Day The Music Died International Center of Photography 2018-06-12 | British photographer Edmund Clark has spent ten years exploring structures of power and control in the so-called global War on Terror. Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died presents photographic, video, and installation work focusing on the measures deemed necessary to protect citizens from the threat of international terrorism. It also explores the far-reaching effects of such methods of control on issues of security, secrecy, legality, and ethics.From Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to extraordinary rendition and the CIA’s secret prison program, Clark’s work finds new ways to visualize the processes, sites, and experiences associated with the United States’ response to international terrorism. His engagement with military and state censorship defines the secrecy and denial around these subjects.Through photographs and declassified documents, Clark reveals how the unexpected connections between those who exercise control and those who are subject to it bring this covert torture trail to a human level. He highlights the everyday veneers under which purveyors of detention and interrogation operate in plain sight, brings light to the processes beneath, and reflects on how terror impacts us all by altering fundamental aspects of our society and culture.Organized by Director of Exhibitions and Collections Erin Barnett, this is Clark’s first major solo exhibition in the United States.
2018 Infinity Award: Critical Writing and Research — Maurice Berger International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Maurice Berger is a writer, cultural historian, and curator whose work focuses on the intersection of race and visual culture. He is research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Race Stories, his monthly column, for the Lens section of the New York Times, explores the relationship of photography to concepts and social issues about race not usually covered in the mainstream media. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Aperture, Village Voice, Brooklyn Rail, Pen America, Wired, National Geographic, and the Los Angeles Times. His books include White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), a finalist for Horace Mann Bond Book Award of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, and For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Yale, 2010). Berger has received honors and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Association of Art Museum Curators, International Association of Art Critics, as well as an Emmy Award nomination. For his work on Race Stories, he was awarded the 2014 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation ArtsWriters Grant.
2018 Infinity Award: Applied — Alexandra Bell International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Alexandra Bell is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates the complexities of narrative, information consumption, and perception. Utilizing various media, she deconstructs language and imagery to explore the tension between marginal experiences and dominant histories. Through investigative research, she considers the ways media frameworks construct memory and inform discursive practices around race, politics, and culture. In her current series, Counternarratives, Bell edits New York Times articles, altering headlines, changing images, and redacting text to reveal oppressive patterns in news reportage and society at large. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, We Buy Gold, Koenig & Clinton Gallery, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Atlanta Contemporary, and Usdan Gallery. Bell holds a BA in interdisciplinary studies in the humanities from the University of Chicago and an MS in journalism from Columbia University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
2018 Infinity Award: Special Presentation — Juergen Teller International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Juergen Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, before moving to London in 1986. Considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, Teller has successfully navigated both the art world and commercial photography since beginning his career in the late 1980s, blurring the boundaries between his commissioned and personal work in his numerous publications and exhibitions. In 2003, Teller was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography, and, in 2007, was asked to represent the Ukraine as one of five artists in the 52nd Venice Biennale. He has published forty-one artist’s books and exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the Photographer’s Gallery, London (1998), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2004), Foundation Cartier, Paris (2006), Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul (2011), the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013), Deste Foundation, Athens (2014), Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2015), Phillips, London (2015), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2016), Blum & Poe Gallery, Tokyo (2017), Kunstpalais, Erlangen (2017), and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2017). He currently holds a professorship of photography at the Akademie der Bildende Künste Nürnberg.
2018 Infinity Award: Artist’s Book — Dayanita Singh, Museum Bhavan (Steidl) International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Dayanita Singh is an artist. Her medium is photography and the book is her primary form. She was born in 1961 in New Delhi. She studied visual communication at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has published twelve books: Zakir Hussain (1986), Myself,Mona Ahmed (2001), Privacy (2003), Chairs (2005), Go Away Closer (2007), Sent a Letter (2008), Blue Book (2009), Dream Villa (2010), Dayanita Singh (2010), House of Love (2011), File Room (2013), and Museum of Chance (2014). Her works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the MMK, Frankfurt (2014), Art Institute of Chicago (2014), the Hayward Gallery, London (2013), Frith Street Gallery, London (2012), and the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid (2010). She has also shown in the 2nd Kochi Biennale (2014), at the German Pavillion in the Venice Biennale (2013), at the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, as part of ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), and at Manifesta 7 (2008).
2018 Infinity Award: Lifetime Achievement — Bruce Davidson International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | In a career spanning more than half a century, Bruce Davidson is known for his dedication to the documentation of social inequality. Davidson attended Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers. He was later drafted into the army and stationed near Paris, where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of the renowned cooperative photography agency Magnum Photos. After his military service, Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for Life magazine and, in 1958, became a full member of Magnum. From 1958 to 1961, he created such seminal bodies of work as The Circus and Brooklyn Gang. In 1962, he received a Guggenheim fellowship and immersed himself in documenting the American civil rights movement. In 1963, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented his early work in a solo exhibition, the first of several. In 1967, Davidson received the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts. For two years, he focused his lens on East 100th Street in Manhattan. The photographs were exhibited at MoMA in 1970, and remain one of his most acclaimed bodies of work. In 1980, he explored the vitality and distress of the New York City subway. From 1991 to 1995 he photographed the landscape and layers of life in Central Park. More recently, he followed this exploration of nature to Paris and Los Angeles, carefully examining the relationship between nature and urban life. Davidson received an Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship in 1998 to return to East 100th Street to document the revitalization and renewal that occurred in the thirty years since he last photographed it. His awards include the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography in 2004, a Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club in 2007, the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from Sony in 2011, and an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Corcoran School of Art and Design. Classic bodies of work from his fifty-year career have been extensively published in monographs and are included in major public and private fine art collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography in New York, and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. He currently lives in New York City, and continues to make photographs.
2018 Infinity Award: Online Platform and New Media — Women Photograph International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Women Photograph is an initiative founded by Daniella Zalcman in 2017 to elevate the voices of female and non-binary visual journalists. The private database includes more than 650 independent women documentary photographers based in 91 countries and is available privately to any commissioning editor or organization. Women Photograph also operates an annual series of project grants for emerging and established photojournalists, a yearlong mentorship program, and a travel fund to help female photographers access workshops, festivals, and other developmental opportunities. Our mission is to shift the gender makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry's chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent.
2018 Infinity Award: Art — Samuel Fosso International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Samuel Fosso had to flee his native Cameroon due to the persecutions caused by the Biafra war. He sought refuge in Bangui, Central African Republic, where, at thirteen, he opened his own photo studio. His expressive black-and-white self-portraits from the 1970s make reference to popular West African culture—musicians, the latest youth fashions, and political advertising—constituting a sustained and unprecedented photographic project that explores sexuality, gender, and African self-representation. Stagings of his personal identity, these self-portraits would gradually take a universal social and political dimension. In his series titled African Spirits (2008), he embodies iconic identities of fundamental characters of African independence, the civil rights movement in the United States, or prominent cultural figures from Africa and the United States, such as Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Muhammad Ali, Seydou Keita, Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandela. In his latest series, Black Pope, Fosso challenges the relentless catholic veneration of whiteness in contemporary visual culture as resurrected in a restive, darker protesting version of the Pope. It is a series that directly challenges normative regimes of truth, power, officialdom, and the accoutrements that are used to reinforce belief.
2018 Infinity Award: Documentary and Photojournalism — Amber Bracken International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Amber Bracken is a member of Rogue Collective and lifelong Albertan covering assignments across the province and farther from home. After getting her start as a staffer in daily newspapers, she has moved on to a freelance career and the pursuit of long-term projects. She has since worked with many clients, including National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, BuzzFeed, Reuters, Maclean’s, The Canadian Press, Postmedia, and Canadian Geographic. In her personal work, Bracken’s interest is in the intersection of photography, journalism, and public service, with a special focus on issues affecting Indigenous people. With the rise of movements like Idle No More, communities are increasingly empowered to fight for a more just relationship with the government and non-native people. She is looking for ways to represent and foster that strength. With that intention, Bracken has been building relationships in Indigenous communities and starting to document important issues around culture, environment, and the effects of intergenerational trauma from colonialism.
2018 Infinity Award: Trustees Award — Thomson Reuters International Center of Photography 2018-04-10 | Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of news and information for professional markets. Our customers rely on us to deliver the intelligence, technology and expertise they need to find trusted answers. The business has operated in more than 100 countries for more than 100 years. For more information, visit thomsonreuters.com or tr.com.
Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II International Center of Photography 2018-04-02 | Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II examines a dark episode in US history when, in the name of national security, the government incarcerated 120,000 citizens and legal residents during World War II without due process or other constitutional protections to which they were entitled. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, set in motion the forced removal and imprisonment of all people of Japanese ancestry (citizens and non-citizens alike) living on or near the West Coast. This exhibition features works by renowned photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and others documenting the eviction of Japanese Americans and permanent Japanese residents from their homes as well as their subsequent lives in incarceration camps. Also included are photographs by incarcerated photographer Toyo Miyatake. This timely exhibition reexamines this history and presents new research telling the stories of the individuals whose lives were upended due to racial bigotry.In Order of Appearance: Dorothea LangeSan Francisco, California, April 11, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationDorothea LangeSan Francisco, California, April 25, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationYaeko Yoshihara interview courtesy Densho Digital RepositoryClem AlbersArcadia, California, April 5, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationDorothea LangeWoodland, California, May 20, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationNancy Iwami interview courtesy Densho Digital RepositoryGeorge Morihoro interview courtesy Densho Digital RepositoryDorothea LangeSan Francisco, California, April 25, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationDorothea LangeMountain View, California, March 30, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationRussell LeeLos Angeles, California, April 1942Courtesy Library of CongressDorothea LangeSan Francisco, California, April 4, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationMichi Weglyn interview from Conscience and the Constitution, Courtesy Frank AbeToyo MiyatakeMemorial Service, July 1944Courtesy Toyo Miyatake StudioAnsel AdamsOwens Valley, California, 1943Courtesy Library of CongressDorothea LangeSan Francisco, California, April 20, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records AdministrationDorothea LangeSan Francisco, California, April 20, 1942Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration
International Center of Photography Infinity Awards International Center of Photography 2018-03-08 | Since 1985, the ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. 2018 RecipientsLIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Bruce DavidsonAPPLIED: Alexandra BellART: Samuel FossoARTIST’S BOOK: Dayanita Singh, Museum BhavanCRITICAL WRITING AND RESEARCH: Maurice Berger, Race Stories column for the Lens section of the New York TimesDOCUMENTARY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM: Amber BrackenEMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER: Natalie KeyssarONLINE PLATFORM AND NEW MEDIA: Women PhotographSPECIAL PRESENTATION: Juergen TellerTRUSTEES AWARD: Thomson Reuters Past recipients include Berenice Abbott, Lynsey Addario, Richard Avedon, Ariella Azoulay, David Bailey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chuck Close, Roy DeCarava, Elliott Erwitt, Harold Evans, Larry Fink, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, David Goldblatt, Paul Graham, David Guttenfelder, Mishka Henner, André Kertész, Steven Klein, William Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Ryan McGinley, Susan Meiselas, Duane Michals, Daidō Moriyama, Zanele Muholi, James Nachtwey, Shirin Neshat, Gordon Parks, Gilles Peress, Walid Raad, Eugene Richards, Sebastião Salgado, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, Peter Van Atgmael, and Ai Weiwei, among others. Past Infinity Award attendees include Hamish Bowles, Naomi Campbell, Grace Coddington, Bella Hadid, Carolina Herrera, Arianna Huffington, Karlie Kloss, Alexandra Richards, Leelee Sobieski, and Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor.All proceeds from the Infinity Awards benefit ICP’s exhibition, education, community, and public programs.For more information and advance reservations, please contact events@icp.org or 212.857.9714.
Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield International Center of Photography 2017-11-30 | GENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield presents 25 years of work by Greenfield, who uses photography, oral history, and film to examine the pervasive influence of money, status, and celebrity in America and abroad. The first major retrospective of Greenfield’s work, the exhibition features nearly 200 photographs, numerous first-person interviews, and documentary film footage, forming a thematic investigation of how the pursuit of wealth, and its material trappings and elusive promises of happiness, has evolved since the late 1990s. Weaving together stories about affluence, beauty, body image, competition, corruption, fantasy, and excess, Greenfield’s sweeping project questions the distance between value and commodity in a globalized consumerist culture.Greenfield’s lushly colored photographs are densely packed with visual information. These images and the ways in which the sitters present themselves are alternately shocking, humorous, touchingly vulnerable, and, often, unnervingly brash, a quality that reveals the trust she builds with the people on the other side of her camera. Paired with candid interviews of the sitters, each picture and encounter behind it is an attempt to understand what motivates individuals in their pursuit of “the good life." Taken as a broader social document, the accumulation and intersection of their stories, which are primarily American but also include perspectives from Ireland, Iceland, the United Arab Emirates, China, and Russia, explore the separation between inherent personal values and the priorities that are marketed to consumers en masse.Generation Wealth chronicles a progressive distortion of the American Dream in the 21st century and questions its sustainability. By organizing 25 years of work into one complex narrative, Greenfield also seeks to better understand the system that ties together so many of our largest commercial industries—among them fashion, entertainment, real estate, and banking—together—and how their standards shape our behavior.Lauren Greenfield was born in 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Los Angeles; she earned her BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1987. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ELLE, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Le Monde, Marie Claire, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. She is the director of four full-length documentary films, including the Emmy-nominated Thin (2006) and the award-winning Queen of Versailles (2012), and five documentary shorts. Greenfield’s latest feature-length documentary, Wealth: The Influence of Affluence, will be released in the fall of 2017.
Magnum Manifesto International Center of Photography 2017-06-28 | This landmark exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of the renowned photo agency Magnum Photos created by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and Chim (David Seymour) in 1947. Tracing the ideas and ideals behind the founding and development of the legendary cooperative, curator Clément Chéroux, formerly photography curator at the Centre Pompidou, now senior curator of photography at SFMOMA, explores the history of the second half of the 20th century through the lens of 75 masters, providing a new and insightful perspective on the contribution of these photographers to our collective visual memory.Featuring group and individual projects, the exhibition will include over two hundred prints as well as books, magazines, videos, and rarely before seen archival documents. Among many others, it will feature the work of Christopher Anderson, Jonas Bendiksen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cornell and Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), Raymond Depardon, Bieke Depoorter, Elliott Erwitt, Martine Franck, Leonard Freed, Paul Fusco, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Burt Glinn, Jim Goldberg, Joseph Koudelka, Sergio Larrain, Susan Meiselas, Wayne Miller, Martin Parr, Marc Riboud, Alessandra Sanguinetti, W. Eugene Smith, Alec Soth, Chris Steele-Perkins, Dennis Stock, Mikhael Subotzky, and Alex Webb.The exhibition is a co-production between ICP and Magnum Photos. It is curated by Clément Chéroux, with Clara Bouveresse and ICP Associate Curator Pauline Vermare. The accompanying catalogue is published by Thames & Hudson.
2017 Infinity Award: Online Platform and New Media — For Freedoms International Center of Photography 2017-04-25 | For Freedoms, co-founded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, is the first artist-run Super PAC using art to inspire deeper political engagement for citizens who want to have a greater impact on the American political landscape. Thomas is a photo-conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture who has exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. His work can be found in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The High Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Thomas’ co-founder Gottesman photographs, writes, makes videos, teaches, and uses art as a vehicle to engage people in critical conversations about the social structures that surround them and him. Gottesman is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in Film, Photography, and Video at Hampshire College, a Visiting Professor at Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts, and a Mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Project. His work is in various collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The For Freedoms team is rounded out by photographer Wyatt Gallery; nonprofit arts organization strategic planning and development consultant Dena Muller; art historian and business consultant Michelle Woo; and Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, a Director at the Jack Shainman Gallery.
