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Aleksey Kondratyev’s Ice Fishers (London: Loose Joints, 2018) is a slim and quiet edition of only fifty two pages with a one page insert of colophon and text. The images are placed on such a perfect whiteness that it is hard to know what we are looking at first. The narrative is that for… Continue reading Some Photobooks I liked in 2018 (Part Two)
To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding fast to a picture of the past, just as if it had unexpectedly thrust itself,… Continue reading Temporary Autonomous Installations in All Used Up: Dismantling the Gaze x Queering the Collection, October 17, 2018 at ICP Museum
William Boling joined the ICP Library recently to share Debbie Fleming Caffery's photobook Alphabet with some of our teeniest patrons. Caffery's book features 26 gorgeous black & white photographs from her archive. Each image broadly corresponding with letters of the alphabet. The crowd, children age 4-12 years old, were completely enraptured with his reading. It was interesting to see how each interpreted… Continue reading Teeny Academy with William Boling
Please join us to celebrate the achievements of our teen photographers. The ICP Library and Teen Academy program are proud to present a selection of self-published books authored by students who participated in the fall class, Photo II in Black-and-White: The Self-Published Artist on JANUARY 29, 6-8 PM International Center of Photography Library 1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street New York, N
HOURS AND LOCATION Preview Thursday, September 17, 6-9 pm Friday, September 18, 1-7pm Saturday, September 19, 11am-9pm Sunday, September 20, 11-am-7pm MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books,… Continue reading ICP at the New York Art Book Fair
About the book The medium is the message in this playful and philosophical trans-media crossover book about smartphones, language, photography and war. Rita Leistner, who is a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York (2000) and has an MA in comparative literature from the University of Toronto (1990), uses the optics of… Continue reading Rita Leistner book launch and screening at ICP Library Nov. 7 6-8pm
PhotoBiblioMania an exhibition of books about photobooks October-December 2014 Welcome to the launch of the PhotoBiblioMania project at the ICP library. Please peruse our initial compilation of a bibliography of books about photobooks [see below] along with some thoughts on a taxonomy and criteria for evaluation. We very much are looking for this to be… Continue reading PhotoBiblioMania at the ICP Library
Printed Matter presents their ninth annual New York Art Book Fair from Friday, September 26 to Sunday September 28, 2014 at MOMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines. This year, the… Continue reading ICP Guide to The NY Art Book Fair (2014)
On Tuesday afternoon, 16 September, a small gathering of Friends of ICP Library, artists, curators and ICP supporters celebrated Ishiuchi Miyako, this year's Hasselblad winner at a reception in Bacaro on Division Street as guests of ICP Trustee and Friends of the Library Co-Chair Stephanie Shuman and esteemed gallerist and publisher Andrew Roth. A toast… Continue reading Friends of ICP Library Toast Ishiuchi Miyako
Please Join Us at the International Center of Photography Library Thursday August 7 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm to celebrate The Experiment: What is Hungarian Photographic Art Organized by Shandor Hassan in honor of the life and work of Gabor Kerekes (1945-2014) The Experiment: What is Hungarian Photographic Art The photographic work contained within the pages of… Continue reading The Experiment: What is Hungarian Photographic Art
Monsters & Madonnas 