International Center of Photography will move to the Bowery (yay!!!)

Photography Center Leaving Midtown for the Bowery
by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, September 24, 2014

ICP celebrates Gordon Parks centennial

International Center of Photography
presents

Gordon Parks: 100 Years

through January 6, 2013

To commemorate the centennial of the birth of photographer, filmmaker, musician, and writer Gordon Parks (1912–2006), the International Center of Photography in cooperation with The Gordon Parks Foundation will present the installation Gordon Parks: 100 Years, including a large-scale photo mural and slideshow of more than 50 photographs he captured throughout his long, illustrious career. The installation was curated by Dr. Maurice Berger.

The 20-foot-by-13-foot photo mural features Emerging Man, one of Parks' iconic images captured in Harlem in 1952. Three video screens will display his stunning images, which explore such issues as urban and rural poverty, racism and prejudice, politics, and the historic Civil Rights Movement.

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, Manhattan
(map/directions)

ICP honors photojournalist Ruth Gruber

Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist | International Center of Photography

Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist celebrates the life, vision, and heroic tenacity of one of the 20th century's great humanitarians and photojournalists. Born in 1911 to Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, Gruber was the youngest PhD in the world when she became the first journalist to travel to the Soviet Arctic and Siberian Gulag, in 1935. (Read more here.)

This show ends August 28, and it is so worth seeing. And please don't miss the accompanying (and much too brief) video interview with Gruber. I could have listened to her forever!

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas (between 43rd and 44th Streets), Manhattan
(hours, admission, map and directions)

Through the eyes of Vishniac

A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac

by Alana Newhouse, The New York Times, March 29, 2010