The ultimate
digital magazine where everything about photography is published daily, L’Oeil
de la Photographie, recently feature the gallery’s current exhibition “Vintage
Photojournalism”.
The
feature may be viewed here.
“Vintage
Photojournalism” is a major exhibition of rare vintage prints from
the 20th Century’s master photojournalists. The exhibit features unique, one of
a kind prints that were used to fill requests for reproduction in LIFE magazine
and other major publications, many with important historic information inscribed
and stamped on the verso (backside) of the photograph. The exhibit continues
through April 24.
We are very
pleased to announce that the gallery is now representing the
Spider Martin
civil rights collection. Alabama photojournalist, James "Spider" Martin,
(b. 1939 - 2003) was employed as a staff photographer at The Birmingham News
during one of the most eventful periods in American history. Martin covered key
events during the 1960s civil rights movement, most notably Bloody Sunday and
other historic incidents from the Selma to Montgomery march. His civil rights
photographs are in included in the many collections, including the Birmingham
Civil Rights museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture
, and the Dolph
Briscoe Center for American History.
While a small
number of Spider's civil rights era photographs have been published and
exhibited, most of these dramatic and moving images have never been shown
publicly because of their controversial nature for the time.
Monroe
Gallery of Photography will be again exhibiting at the AIPAD Photography Show
April 13 – 17 in New York at the Park Avenue Amory, 643 Park Avenue. The gallery
will be in booth # 104. Celebrating its 36th year in 2016, The Photography Show
features more than 80 of the world’s leading photography art galleries. We will
be exhibiting specially selected photographs from the gallery's renowned
collection of 20th and 21st Century master photojournalists. Among the
highlights selected for this year's exhibition are: vintage prints from Spider
Martin alongside other important civil rights photographs; a rare selection of
never-before-seen vintage prints of photographs taken by Bill
Eppridge on the night
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated; a rare vintage print made from the original negative of the iconic image from World War II by George Silk
"An Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942"; several
large-scale color photographs from
Stephen Wilkes’
Bethlehem Steel, China, and Day To Night collections, and an exciting previously
unseen large scale photograph of David Bowie taken in New Mexico in 1975 during
the filming of “The Man Who Fell To Earth” that is featured in the forthcoming
book “Bowie: Photographs by Steve Schapiro” which will be published April 26,
2016 by PowerHouse Books, and many other exciting new additions to the gallery’s
collection.
Steve
Schapiro: David Bowie, New Mexico, 1975 ( “The Man Who Fell To Earth’)
We would like
to invite you to visit the AIPAD Show as our guests, please contact the gallery
for complimentary admission to the Show.
We will round
out the Spring season with the exhibition “Alfred Eisenstaedt: Classics and
seldom-seen photographs”: April 29 – June 26.
Renowned
as the father of modern photojournalism, Alfred
Eisenstaedt’s career as a preeminent photojournalist spanned eight decades.
The exhibition
of more than 50 photographs features numerous classic images, several
little-known gems, and never-before-exhibited photographs.
We
hope to see you in the coming months, and please do not hesitate to contact us
for any information.
Our best,
Sid and Michelle Monroe
