Monroe Gallery of Photography specializes in 20th- and 21st-century photojournalism and humanist imagery—images that are embedded in our collective consciousness and which form a shared visual heritage for human society. They set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think—in a shared medium that is a singular intersectionality of art and journalism.
— Sidney and Michelle Monroe
Steve Schapiro speaking after receiving the 2017 Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism. Earlier this year the Gallery presented the exhibition "EYEWITNESS" to celebrate the completion of a project based on James Baldwin’s 1963 book, “The Fire Next Time”. Steve Schapiro’s photographs documenting the civil rights movement from 1963 – 1968 are paired with essays from “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin in a major book published by Taschen in March. The book won the 2017 Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year (Limited).
Art Shay, now 95, speaking after being honored with the Lucie statue for Lifetime Achievement during the Lucie Awards gala ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York October 29, 2017. “Art Shay: A Tribute”is currently on view at Monroe Gallery of Photography through November 19, 2017.
Art Shay brought the crowd to its feet with a rousing harmonica solo to conclude the evening.
The Lucie Awards is an annual event honoring the greatest achievements in photography.
The photography community from around
the globe pays tribute to the most outstanding people in the field. Each year,
the Lucie Advisory Board nominates deserving individuals across a variety of
categories.
For over 70 years, Art Shay has
documented life, combining his gifts of storytelling, humor and empathy. Art Shay, now 95, will be honored with
the Lucie statue for Lifetime Achievement during the Lucie Awards gala ceremony
at Carnegie Hall in New York October 29, 2017. “Art Shay: A Tribute”is currently on exhibit at Monroe
Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM, through November 19.
At the same time, renowned
photographer Steve Schapiro will receive the Lucie Award for Achievement in
Photojournalism. Earlier this year the Gallery presented the exhibition "EYEWITNESS" to celebrate the
completion of a project based on James Baldwin’s 1963 book, “The Fire Next
Time”. Steve Schapiro’s photographs documenting the civil rights movement from
1963 – 1968 are paired with essays from “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
in a major book published by Taschen in March.
Monroe Gallery of Photography was
founded by Sidney S. Monroe and
Michelle A. Monroe. Building on more than five decades of collective
experience, the gallery specializes in classic black & white photography
with an emphasis on humanist and photojournalist imagery. Monroe Gallery was
the recipient of the 2010 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Excellence in Photojournalism.
Santa Fe--Monroe Gallery of
Photography, 112 Don Gaspar, is pleased to present a major exhibition of photographs
from one of America’s most
accomplished photographers, Art Shay. The exhibit of 50 photographs
opens Friday, October 6 with a public reception from 5 – 7 PM, and continues
through November 19.
For over 70 years, Art Shay has
documented life, combining his gifts of storytelling, humor and empathy. The
Lucie Awards is the premiere annual event honoring the greatest achievements in
photography. Art Shay will be honored with the Lucie statue for Lifetime
Achievement during the Lucie Awards gala ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York
October 29, 2017. Below is the announcement from the Lucie Foundation.
ART SHAY
2017 Honoree, Lifetime Achievement
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently,
pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert
Art Shay was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1922. During
World War II, he was lead navigator on 30 missions in the Eighth Air Force. His
service, which also include 23 combat supplies missions, earned him five Air
Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. He is
credited with shooting down one Focke Wulf 190, a German fighter plane.
Shay has pursued photography since his teens, and he took his
first Leica to war with him. His first published photographs—documenting a mid
air collision over his English Air Base—were printed in a September 1944 issue
of Look magazine. Upon returning to civilian life, Shay wrote Sunday
features for the Washington Post before becoming a staff reporter
for Life magazine. In San Francisco at age 26, he became Life’s
youngest bureau chief. His specialty was story ideas and he wrote text and
captions for photographers such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Peter Stackpole, Wallace
Kirkland and Francis Miller.
Shay moved to Chicago in late 1948. A longtime fan of
literature, he befriended novelist Nelson Algren, the winner of the first
National Book Award for Fiction. Throughout the 1950s, they wandered Chicago
documenting Algren’s “rusty heart” neighborhoods. In 1951, Shay left his staff
position at Life magazine and became a freelance photographer. He found success
shooting for major magazines including Life, Time, Fortune, Ebony, Sports
Illustrated, The Saturday Evening Post and The New York Times Magazine.
Shay earned a reputation for getting the shots editors wanted. As former editor
of Lifeand Fortune Roy Rowan put it, “Art Shay’s extraordinary
talent lies in capturing the human spirit of all those who come before his
lens.”
Shay’s images range from photographs of nine US Presidents, to the early 1960s Post cereal box baseball card photographs, to a forty-year ongoing essay of a local shopping mall. He is the author of nearly 70 books, including several dozen nonfiction children’s books. He has also written five plays, two of which had professional stage runs: “A Clock for Nikita” in 1963 and “Where have you gone, Jimmy Stewart?” in 2002. Shay is also a member of the U.S. Racquetball Hall of Fame (having been a state and national champion) and has been the official photographer of the racquetball association.
Since 1958, Shay has lived in Deerfield, Illinois, where he and his wife Florence raised their five children. Florence Shay, an esteemed rare book dealer and his wife of 67 years, died in 2012. Art has since published “My Florence: A 70-year Love Story” which honors her as his intellectual and loving partner.
Shay’s photographs reside in major permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago and the National Portrait Gallery (Washington D.C.). He is currently involved in several photographic and literary projects including an expansive book of his civil rights photographs and a documentary on his life and work.
Monroe Gallery of Photography was honored to welcome Tony Vaccaro to Santa Fe for the opening of the exhibition. Among the highlights of Tony's visit was his return to the location near Georgia O'Keeffe's home where he made his iconic photograph of Georgia holding " "Pelvic Series, Red with Yellow.
Courtesy of The Tony Vaccaro Studio
In conjunction with the exhibit, Monroe Gallery sponsored two sold-out free screenings of the Emmy Award nominated HBO documentary film “Under Fire: The Untold Story of Private First Class Tony Vaccaro”. The film tells the story of how Tony survived the war, fighting the enemy while also documenting his experience at great risk, developing his photos in combat helmets at night and hanging the negatives from tree branches. The film also encompasses a wide range of contemporary issues regarding combat photography such as the ethical challenges of witnessing and recording conflict, the ways in which combat photography helps to define how wars are perceived by the public, and the sheer difficulty of staying alive while taking photos in a war zone. “Underfire: the Untold Story of Private First Class Tony Vaccaro” was recently nominated for the 2017 Outstanding Historical Documentary Emmy.
Tony Vaccaro, now 94, was the keynote speaker at the recent 100th anniversary of the 83rd Infantry Division reunion in Cleveland, Ohio, August 2-6.
Opening October 6, the gallery is pleased to present a major exhibition of photographs from one of America’s most accomplished photographers, Art Shay. The exhibit of 50 photographs opens Friday, October 6 with a public reception from 5 – 7 PM, and continues through November 19.
For over 70 years, Art Shay has documented life, combining his gifts of storytelling, humor and empathy. The Lucie Awards is the premiere annual event honoring the greatest achievements in photography. Art Shay, now 95, will be honored with the Lucie statue for Lifetime Achievement during the Lucie Awards gala ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York October 29, 2017.
At the same time, renowned photographer Steve Schapiro will receive the Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism. Earlier this year the Gallery presented the exhibition "EYEWITNESS” to celebrate the completion of a project based on James Baldwin’s 1963 book, “The Fire Next Time”. Steve Schapiro’s photographs documenting the civil rights movement from 1963 – 1968 are paired with essays from “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin in a major book published by Taschen in March.
Monroe Gallery is now representing Ryan Vizzions, a respected photographer who occupies Atlanta’s underground art circles. In 2014, Vizzions was awarded a Readers Pick for Best Fine Art Photographer in Creative Loafing’s Best of Atlanta issue. Beginning in September 2016, Vizzions, 33, went to the front lines at Standing Rock, North Dakota, documenting the fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from scarring sovereign Native American land and tunneling underneath the Missouri River. Working as part of the media team for the Sioux Tribe’s Oceti Sakowin Camp, he photographed outside the mainstream media. One of his photograph, titled "Defend the Sacred," has appeared in publications including Newsweek and People magazine’s “Year in Pictures” spread, among others.
Tony Vaccaro: Kiss of Liberation: Sergeant Gene Costanzo kneels to kiss a little girl during spontaneous celebrations in the main square of the town of St. Briac, France, August 14, 1944
“How can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Monroe Gallery of Photography recently featured the exhibition “EYEWITNESS”, which celebrated photojournalist Steve Schapiro's completion of a project based on James Baldwin’s 1963 book, “The Fire Next Time”. Steve Schapiro’s photographs documenting the civil rights movement from 1963 – 1968 are paired with essays from “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin in a major book recently in a limited edition by Tashen. Signed copies of the book are available from the gallery.
Monroe Gallery will sponsor a special free encore screening of "Underfire" in Santa Fe on Saturday, August 26 at 3:45 pm at the Center For Contemporary Arts Cinematheque. Please call the CCA box office for tickets; seating is limited.
NOMINEES FOR THE 38th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Outstanding Historical Documentary
HBO Documentary Films
HBO UNDERFIRE: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro
Director/Producer Max Lewkowicz
Executive Producers Gianna Cerbone –Teoli, Sheila Nevins, Ann Oster, Tim Van Patten
Senior Producer Jacqueline Glover
Producer Valerie Thomas
NOMINEES FOR THE 38th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Charles Osgood to be honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
October 5th Award Presentation at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in NYC
New York, N.Y. – July 25, 2017 – Nominations for the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced today by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented on Thursday, October 5th, 2017, at a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Complex at Columbus Circle in New York City. The event will be attended by more than 1,000 television and news media industry executives, news and documentary producers and journalists. Awards will be presented in 49 categories.
“Many say we’re in a ‘golden age’ of television and I would argue that the incredible growth of quality, in-depth reporting in broadcast journalism and documentary filmmaking has helped drive that change,” said Bob Mauro, President, NATAS. “We live in a continually-connected world where a tweet can set off a firestorm that travels around the world in seconds. These awards are a tribute to the outstanding work being done by these nominees who provide the viewer with thorough, fact-checked reporting, examining the stories of the day from multiple perspectives while never wavering in their quest to provide us with the truth about world events. It is with great pleasure that The National Academy honors the achievements of these many organizations and individuals. It is an added delight to honor the one-of-a-kind broadcasting career of Charles Osgood, who through his decades as host of the ‘Osgood File’ and as the anchor of ‘CBS Sunday Morning,’ has graced many a news story with his innate ability to engage his audience with humor, warmth and credibility.”
The 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards honors programming distributed during the calendar year 2016.
The list of nominees is also available on the National Television Academy's website: www.emmyonline.tv
Book Signing and Reception Friday, July 14, 5-7 pm
Best-known for Saigon
Execution, his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph that forever shaped how the
world views the horrors of war, Eddie Adams was a renowned American
photojournalist who won more than five hundred awards. Eddie Adams: Bigger Than
The Frame presents a career-spanning selection of the photographer's finest
work from the 1950s through the early 2000s.In addition to his much-praised Vietnam War photography, the book
includes images that uncannily reflect world and domestic issues of today,
including immigration, conflict in the Middle East, and the refugee crisis. All
of them attest to Adams's overwhelming desire to tell people's stories. As he
once observed, "I actually become the person I am taking a picture of. If
you are starving, I am starving, too." Adams's widow, Alyssa Adams, will
be present and signing copies of the new book.
57 years later, Tony Vaccaro returned to the location near Georgia O'Keeffe's home where he made his iconic photograph of Georgia holding " "Pelvic Series, Red with Yellow".
Photo courtesy of Tony Vaccaro Studio
"I took this photo 1960 of Georgia she told me not to take color photo and not to take her art of her studio. Well am sorry Georgia I did the opposite. " - Tony Vaccaro
Richard Stolley (left), former Time magazine bureau chief, senior editor and managing editor, and Assistant Managing Editor and Managing Editor of Life magazine, led a Q & A with photographer Tony Vaccaro (right) following the screening of the film "Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro" at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe.
This Friday, a diverse collection of images in the exhibit Tony Vaccaro: From War To Beauty at the Monroe Gallery of Photography gives Santa Feans a glimpse into the life of the 94-year-old photographer from scenes of World War II to commercial fashion shots, and beyond.
This artist’s lens has captured some of the most famous humans ever—think Sophia Loren, Pablo Picasso and Marilyn Monroe. But some of his first forays into photography were spent documenting World War II. Drafted at 21 years old, Vaccaro carried a 35-mm camera through the trenches of Europe and used innovative techniques to develop his film: Patiently waiting for nightfall, the artist-soldier used the tools available to him in the middle of a war. “I would go over the ruins of a village and try to locate where a camera shop might have been,” he says. “So, in the ruins I could find developer and the things which you need.” Chemicals in hand, Vaccaro used helmets as developing trays; developer, water, hypo and more water to rinse; four helmets in succession in the pitch black. “From Normandy to Berlin, that’s how I developed my pictures,” he tells SFR.
Vaccaro had a long and illustrious career in photography after the war as well, including time working for magazines like Life, Harper’s Bazaar and Newsweek. His work took him to amazing places like the Nile River in Egypt and to photograph fabled architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
But which photo stands out to Vaccaro as his crowning achievement? Georgia O’Keeffe, he says. He asked the painter to take her work outdoors. “It’s one of the great photographs of my life, yes—I have it right in front of me—she’s in profile, and all you have is black, her face and then the great color of that painting,” he says. “The greatest [memory] was Georgia O’Keeffe, and coming to Santa Fe, and it was just Georgia and Tony for about a week or more. It was superb, really.” (Maria Egolf-Romero)
