Street Photography at ICP

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For fifty years, the International Center of Photography (ICP) has been New York City’s premier collector and exhibitor of photography. So, when they decided to turn over their entire museum to the genre of street photography, they were guaranteed to produce with an amazing show.

We Are Here (through Jan 5, 2025) is an exhibition of thirty photographers from around the world. Together, they provide a view of life unstaged. Street photography, at its best, offers an unguarded snapshot into the lives of its subjects, and We Are Here presents lives from New York City to Africa and on to Asia.

 

Girld Dancing to Disco Music by Martha Cooper

Canal Street by Melissa O'Shaughnessy

Waiting. Brownsville, Brooklyn by Jamel Shabazz

Vasileostrovskaya Metro Station. St. Petersberg, Russia, by Alexey Titarenko

Fruits_018-1998/11-#1361 by Shoichi Aoki

Girl in Sunglasses by Feng Li

From the series A Day in Dakar by Trevor Struuman

From the series Pretty Woman by Daido Moriyama

Get Comfortable by Nicholas Galanin

Bidon Armé (l) and BB (r) by Romuald Hazoumè

ICP has also turned one gallery to a retrospective of its fifty year history. Its collection includes works that date back to the beginnings of the art form. From daguerreotypes to digital photographs, ICP has always presented the works of photographers, and placed them in their historical context.

Maine Pump by Walker Evans

Public School Class by Jacob Riis

Booker T. Washington by Strohmeyer & Wyman

No trip to ICP is complete without taking the time to explore New York City’s Lower East Side, its home. While it has changed over the years, there are still signs of its history. Century old synagogues are still to be found throughout the area. Street artists continue to decorate the walls of buildings, linking back to the 1970’s. And there are still great restaurants, new and old, to enjoy.

I do love an old sign

Fractured Reflection

This former synagogue is now a private residence

A long line for a late lunch

Essex Market

Nuts and Bolts

•     ICP located at 84 Ludlow Street and is open Wed through Monday 10:30 - 6:30 (until 8 on Thursday)
•     Entrance fee is Adults $18/ Seniors, Military and visitors with Disabilities $14/ Students $12/ SNAP and EBT cardholders $3.