Original article posted on July 12, 2024
"Throughout history, flags have elevated the emotional impact of images, attracting photographers — and photo editors — like moths to a flame." click to read full article
The article analyzes several photographs, including these by Gallery photographers:
July 16, 2024
An exhibition of more than 40 photographs celebrates the extraordinary life and career of photographer Tony Vaccaro.
Monroe Gallery of Photography honors the late Tony Vaccaro with Tony Vaccaro: The Pursuit of Beauty, an exhibition continuing through September 15. On display are photographs from 1944 to 1979 which depict a wide range of subjects, from the battlefields of Europe to the rooftops of Manhattan. Vaccaro, who died on December 28, 2022 at 100 years old, had seen it all. --full review here.
July 12, 2024
Tony Vaccaro stuck around Europe for years following his discharge from the Army in September 1945, four months after D-Day. The timing allowed the famed photographer to capture both war’s brutality and its aftermath, the latter a time of both celebratory smiles and a welcome return to the mundanity of peacetime day-to-day existence.
Vaccaro’s war and post-war images contrast sharply with one another, and all contrast with his later work documenting daily life and fashion for major publications of his day such as Look, Newsweek, and Life. An array of his images is featured in Tony Vaccaro: The Pursuit of Beauty at the Monroe Gallery of Photography.
Owners Michelle and Sid Monroe were friendly with Vaccaro, who died eight days after his 100th birthday in December 2022. His son Frank spoke at a July 5 reception for the exhibition.
"We were privileged to know Tony and to be able to call him a friend. He shared his experiences, his empathy, his integrity and his passion for life and his family with us. He led his life, and pursued his work, as an antidote to mankind’s inhumanity to mankind. "
— Brian Sandford
July 9, 2024
Travel + Leisure readers selected Santa Fe as the #2 U.S. destination on the 2024 World’s Best Awards’ list of the, “15 Best Cities in the U.S.” for the second consecutive year!
"This artsy Southwestern destination has ranked high on our list for nearly 20 years, and it’s not just because of the 320 days of sunshine it receives each year, though it certainly doesn’t hurt. “Santa Fe is like its own country within a country,” gushed one reader. “It’s such a unique blend of culture and history that you don’t see in the rest of the USA.” Another visitor called its downtown, with Pueblo-style buildings and independent galleries, “a photographer's dream and a shopper's delight.”
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."
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SILVER WINNER: DOCUMENTARY: SHORT FORM (UNDER 40 MINUTES) — NON-BROADCAST
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Jeffery DelViscio, Scientific American
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Duy Linh Tu, Scientific American
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Nina Berman, Scientific American
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Sebastian Tuinder, Scientific American
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Dominic Smith, Scientific American
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Joseph Polidoro, Scientific American
