The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced its dates for next year's show, which will be returning to the Park Avenue Armory once again after this year's successful venture at this location.
The fair will be opening on Wednesday afternoon, April 23rd, and closing on Sunday evening, April 27th, 2025.
Visit Monroe Gallery of Photography's exhibit at the 2024 edition here.
July 6, 2024
"I first discovered the extraordinary photographs of Tony Vaccaro a few years ago - and met the man himself - when I was in Santa Fe and Ali MacGraw, one of his subjects, took me to an exhibition of his work at the Monroe Gallery of Photography. I was both impressed by his fashion and celebrity photographs and moved by his WWII ones. I think he was unique in his bestriding both worlds with such grit and grace. There was a kind of wry bemusement to the fashion and celebrity ones but a wrenching intimacy to the war work. Last night the latest show of his photography opened at the Monroe Galley. I felt Tony’s presence in my conversation with his ten-year-old grandson Luke who was there with his family. The show runs until September 15th. If you are in Santa Fe, don’t miss it."
July 6, 2024
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June 28, 2024
SILVER WINNER: DOCUMENTARY: SHORT FORM (UNDER 40 MINUTES) — NON-BROADCAST
Executive Producer
Jeffery DelViscio, Scientific American
Director
Duy Linh Tu, Scientific American
Director
Nina Berman, Scientific American
Producer/Editor
Sebastian Tuinder, Scientific American
Animator
Dominic Smith, Scientific American
Narrator
Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American
Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to announce a major exhibition of more than 45 photographs celebrating the life and career of Tony Vaccaro. “Tony Vaccaro: The Pursuit of Beauty” The exhibit opens on Friday, July 5, with a public reception and Gallery conversation with Frank Vaccaro, son of the photographer, 5 – 7 pm.
Monroe Gallery will sponsor a free screening of the HBO Documentary Film “Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc Tony Vaccaro” on Saturday, July 6, 4 pm at the Jean Cocteau Theater.
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.
Tony Vaccaro died on December 28, 2022, eight days after celebrating
his 100th birthday. Orphaned at age 6, he immersed himself in studying classic
European art and by age 10 had a box camera. He photographed WWII from a
soldier’s perspective, documenting his personal witness to the brutality of
war. After carrying a camera across
battlefields, he become one the most sought-after photographers of his day,
eventually working for virtually every major publication: Flair, Look, Life,
Venture, Harper’s Bazaar, Town and Country, Quick, Newsweek, and many more.
Vaccaro turned the trauma of his youth into a career seeking beauty. This
exhibit explores the extraordinary depth of his archive and features several
new discoveries being exhibited for the very first time.
June 14, 2024
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (WTOK) - The Mississippi Freedom Trail unveiled its newest marker in Philadelphia.
The marker is in remembrance of the Neshoba county murders of 1964 that featured three men, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were participating in an initiative to register black voters but were jailed and later killed by members of the KKK.
News 11 spoke to the mayor of Philadelphia James A. Young who said that it’s a reminder of the past and a marker showing a better future.
“I think it’s a great day. We remember it but when you have markers to remind you of some of the incidents that happened; we never need to forget our history, but as I said in the intro, we should not live in the past but never forget the past. It’s key. I mean every time people pass this marker, they’re gonna remember these guys lost their lives trying to get us registered to vote. So, we should vote every day.” said Mayor Young.
On June 15th, the Neshoba County Coalition will host a program that will honor the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer and remember the deaths of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
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On June 21, 1964, voter registration volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were arrested in Neshoba County, Mississippi following a traffic stop, escorted to the local jail, and held for a number of hours. As the three left town in their car, they were followed by law enforcement and their car was pulled over again. The three were abducted, driven to another location, and shot at close range. The bodies were buried in an earthen dam.
LIFE magazine sent Bill Eppridge to Mississippi immediately after the news broke – he had been covering Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival. Several of Eppridge’s photographs from that time are featured in the exhibit "1964". Exhibits - 1964 - Monroe - Gallery of Photography (monroegallery.com)
June 12, 2024
June 9, 2024
Explore ’64
Monroe Gallery exhibit turns the lens to the pivotal year in US history
By Kathaleen Roberts
Assistant Arts Editor
1964 was the year the ’60s really began.
That’s the year American culture fractured and eventually split along ideological lines, establishing the poles of societal debate that are still raging today. The Beatles led a British Invasion of popular music, Muhammad Ali, who called himself “The Greatest,” shocked the world and became the heavyweight champion, three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, and activist Fannie Lou Hamer declared “I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired.” 1964 was a year of remarkable transition that prefigured 60 years of tumultuous change.
Open at Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery of Photography, “1964” covers a decade of unremitting change and protest that still resonates today.
Sixty years ago, the United States was still recovering from the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 1964 was the year that societal fault lines started to become visible. Politics, civil rights, women’s rights, sexuality, inequality, poverty, Vietnam and youth culture all became flashpoints in societal debate that prefigured 60 years of tumultuous change. Sen. Barry Goldwater’s (nicknamed Mr.
Conservative) campaign for president began a conservative revolution in the Republican Party that still impacts the GOP and American politics today.
“The American elements that we were struggling with then, we are struggling with today,” said Michelle Monroe, gallery co-owner.
“In spite of the times we find ourselves in, we are the same species.”
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In 1964, civil rights activists launched protests, marches and voting drives. Today, Black Lives Matter is attempting to address the same issues of justice, healing and freedom.
Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper’s child, was determined to address members of the Mississippi Democratic Convention.
Sterilized without her permission, she tried to register to vote and was beaten and hospitalized.
She formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to comply with convention rules.
President Lyndon “Johnson was so concerned that he announced he was going to give a speech that very day,” Monroe said.
Life magazine photographer Bill Eppridge flew to Meridian, Mississippi, to photograph the aftermath of the murders of activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by members of the Ku Klux Klan in what became known as the Mississippi Burning murders. Eppridge ask Chaney’s mother what he could photograph and she told him to shoot everything, including her son’s funeral. His shot of Mrs. Chaney comforting her son Ben crystallizes their grief.
“While he was there, they found those three bodies buried behind a dam that was about to be poured over,” Monroe said.
Bob Gomel photographed Muhammed Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) celebrating his defeat of Sonny Liston with Malcolm X looking over his shoulder.
“He announced the (name) change the next day,” Monroe said. “He writes that famous line, ‘I don’t have to be what you want me to be.’ Malcolm had pressed him with, ‘You’re a Muslim, but you’re not making a declaration about it and we need you.’” Steve Schapiro’s World’s Fair “Stall In” shows cars blocking a central street to the event by Congress of Racial Equality activists.
New York had spent millions to host the fair, while Black and Puerto Rican people lived in squalor.
“It did affect the attendance the first day,” Monroe said.
In February, when the nation was still in mourning, the Beatles arrived at Kennedy Airport.
That was a huge generational catalyst for the rest of the decade,” Monroe said. “Suddenly, everybody had something in common. It began as fandom and moved into an anti-war generation, a generation that wanted to embrace equality, a generation that wanted to embrace women’s equality.
“Those goofballs arrived and created brotherhood, sisterhood. Sports and music have done so much to bring people together.”
“That is such a flashpoint in the fabric of our country,” Monroe said.
On exhibit through June 23, 2024
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