50 Years of Photography
The exhibition “ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019”, at the ICP Museum in New York City, is a series of visual wonders that traverse contemporary history.
The renowned institution, founded in 1974 by Cornell Capa, brother of photojournalist Robert Capa, has since collected art pieces ranging from the photographs of best known artists of the 20th century, to NASA images, to the work of younger photographers.
© Helen Levitt. New York, 1980. International Center of Photography, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Acquisitions Committee, 2008. Film Documents LLC, courtesy Zander Galerie, Cologne
© Gordon Parks. Invisible Man Retreat, Harlem, New York, 1952. International Center of Photography, The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005. Courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation
© Guanyu Xu, Worlds Within Worlds, 2019. International Center of Photography, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Acquisitions Committee, 2022. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York
© Yto Barrada. Girl in red playing jacks, 1999. International Center of Photography, Purchase, with funds provided by Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, 2007 © Yto Barrada, Courtesy Pace Gallery
Disconnected in its genesis, conceptual, fine art, and journalistic work, from Weegee to Guanyu Xu, from Samuel Fosso to Gerda Taro, gives life to a myriad of echoes and a cross-section of influences that take the viewer through crucial moments of the recent American and world history.
© Samuel Fosso, Self-Portrait, 1977. International Center of Photography, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Aquisitions Committee, 2004. Courtesy JM Patras/Paris
© Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987. International Center of Photography, Gift of Felix Gonzalez- Torres, in memory of Ross Laycock, 1991. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia
© Larry Fink, ICP Peter Beard Opening, 1977. International Center of Photography, Gift of Eliot Hirshberg, 1986. The Estate of Larry Fink
© Gerda Taro. Republican militiawoman training on the beach, outside Barcelona, 1936. International Center of Photography, Gift of Cornell and Edith Capa, 1986
The exhibition “ICP at 50” is on view at the ICP Museum in New York City until May 6th.
