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
Category: Scholarly News
Miyako Ishiuchi Wins 2014 Hasselblad Award
On March 6th, the Hasselblad Foundation presented Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi with its 2014 annual Hasselblad Award. In conjunction with the award, an exhibition of Ishiuchi's work curated by Dragana Vjuanovic and Louise Wolpers of the Hasselblad Foundation will open on November 7th at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden. The curators will also edit an… Continue reading Miyako Ishiuchi Wins 2014 Hasselblad Award
Alec Soth – Infinity Award Winner for Publication 2011
TR140.S681 2010 From Here to There: Alec Soth's America Minneapolis, Minn. Walker Art Center, 2010. Alec Soth (rhymes with Both) has made a book with the Walker Art Center produced in conjunction with an exhibition that represents something that perhaps could best be described as a mid-career retrospective. I would have really loved to have… Continue reading Alec Soth – Infinity Award Winner for Publication 2011
Ruth Gruber: Cornell Capa Award winner 2011
TR140 .G78 2007 She was born in Brooklyn in 1911. By the age of twenty she had earned a Ph.D degree from the University of Cologne: in German Philosophy, in Modern English Literature and in Art History. The headlines sang “attractive, young Brooklyn girl -- the youngest Ph.D. in the world.” Her 1932 dissertation was… Continue reading Ruth Gruber: Cornell Capa Award winner 2011
ARC Magazine is here!
ARC magazine has arrived in the ICP library - please come in and take a look. It is amazing!!! ART. RECOGNITION. CULTURE. Photographer Nadia Huggins and ICP MFA graduate Holly Bynoe are the driving forces behind ARC Magazine. ARC press release Arc view sample pages here: http://tinyurl.com/4wxn99j ARC The official launch event ICP Museum Bookstore… Continue reading ARC Magazine is here!
Library Alumni Power
Each year a dozen or so full-time ICP students toil in the ICP library. We could not do what we do without them. It is a great trade-off. They bring us new and interesting perspectives from their point of view, be it regional, artistic, intellectual, or all. They get some assistance on their tuition and… Continue reading Library Alumni Power
Danny Goldfield’s NY Children get their Day in the Sun
The remarkable project from the heart of Danny Goldfield, to photograph one child living in NYC from every nation in the world resulted in a self-published book the library is the proud possessor of. Danny, an ICP member, popped into the library a couple of years ago with prints of these portraits and seduced us… Continue reading Danny Goldfield’s NY Children get their Day in the Sun
New Year, New Books!
It is Winter Term at ICP and we have New Books! WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!