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Queering the Collection, 2019, a collaboration between GenderFail and the ICP Library from the publisher "Throughout 2018, the ICP Library collectively produced more than six in-house library installations and events considering representation in libraries at large. The success of this initiative resulted in an increase of the ICP Library’s holdings of queer, gender non-binary imagemakers,… Continue reading Notes on Queering the Collection(s) @ the ICP Library
“What six of them saw” is a project from 1971 produced by the International fund for Concerned Photography and was funded by ‘modest grants’ and the financial support of the PR Company Ruder and Finn (David Finn was closely connected to the Fund and he was on the original board of the ICP in… Continue reading What six of them saw. . .
While hanging out with artist Anouk Kruithof (2012 recipient of the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for “Young Photographer”) at the 2015 Printed Matter Art Book Fair in Los Angeles, I was taken by her very elaborate cupcake-like nail polish. As a big fan of her photo-based projects* and photobooks, I suggested we talk… Continue reading Interview: Anouk Kruithof
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
MF: this physical place that you commonly refer to as the asylum is contrastingly a place of refuge and at the same time a place of insanity, and you come back to it... RB: I have been working in these type of places for over thirty years. I am not certain what attracts me to… Continue reading Asylum of the Birds: an Interview with Roger Ballen
And the sun never goes down. Someone sings i don't sing to be heard or because i know how...in the open, a chicken bites another chicken, a broken voice opens up and sings...i don't sing to be heard or because i know how. And to wake up and have an idea...we'll tear down his favorite… Continue reading Even Dwarfs Started Small
Lizzie Himmel: In 5 Words February 7th 2014 at 6pm Lizzie Himmel: In 5 Words, a collaboration between Alison Bradley, Specialist in Photography and Educator at ICP, and Lizzie Himmel. A conversation centered on five words: "carnal", "surrealist", "spectrum", "form", and "conversation". carnal surrealist spectrum form conversation In 5 Words… Continue reading In Five Words : An ICP Library Exhibition
i'll give you a name if you make me a mask, it doesn't have to suit me, if i can lie, i'll have my eye on you and me, a mask where the face becomes the place, a photograph and its effect, i simply want to see something, a starting point where i don't seek… Continue reading Masquerade
And to think of a photograph and think of sensitivity and think of William Gedney and think of Emmet Gowin and to hear William saying photography and poetry are very close to capture in a single frame visual forms organized to the point where neither more or less are needed and until it becomes an… Continue reading And to Think of a Photograph
In November 2011, Daido Moriyama came to New York for a series of events: a talk at Japan Society with International Center of Photography Curator Christopher Phillips, and Printing Show –TKY, a photobook performance event organized by Ivan Vartanian at the Aperture Foundation. During that time, a plan was hatched for a Daido Moriyama photobook… Continue reading A NYC RESOURCE: THE IMPACT OF THE DAIDO MORIYAMA PHOTOBOOK COLLECTION ON ICP
Monsters & Madonnas 