Via The Santa Fe New Mexican Winter Life
November 8, 2026
Alfred Eisenstaedt/Life Picture Collection
MONROE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This downtown gallery kicks off its 25th year in Santa Fe with a major exhibition of classic and seldom-seen photographs spanning the career and life of legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), known as the father of modern photojournalism. Opening November 27 and on view through January 31, the exhibition showcases the gallery’s specialization in 20th- and 21st-century photojournalism and humanist imagery and kicks off a year of exhibitions celebrating creative relationships that have defined the gallery’s program for more than two dozen years. Gallery owners Sidney and Michelle Monroe first met “Eisie,” as he preferred to be called, in New York City in the mid-1980s and helped organize and present the first gallery exhibition of his photographs in 1989. The encounter sparked a new path for them, and they created their eponymous gallery to uplift, support, and preserve the work of photojournalists at a time when photography was still striving to receive recognition in the art world. They continue to represent Eisenstaedt’s archives and are acknowledged experts on his life and career as one of the most published photojournalists in the world, whose iconic images included the first meeting of Hitler and Mussolini, Albert Einstein teaching at Princeton, Churchill’s campaign and reelection, and V-J Day in Times Square, perhaps his signature photograph. The 1945 image reflects his keen sense of spontaneity. — compiled by AMB
112 Don Gaspar Ave. 505-992-0800 monroegallery.com
Public Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 27, 5-7 PM
