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ICP Announces Two Fall Exhibitions
19 July 2022
The International Center of Photography has announced its fall 2022 exhibition schedule, featuring two exhibitions that explore how photographers embed themselves in their subject matter to document people, places, daily life and world events.
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum and Death in the Making: Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War Photobook will be on view at ICP from Sept. 30 through Jan. 9, 2023.
CLOSE ENOUGH
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum presents pivotal projects in the careers of 12 contemporary women photographers of Magnum Photos.
Sabiha Çimen. A plane flies low over students riding a train at a funfair over the weekend, from Hafiz: The Guardians of Quran. August 29, 2018 © Sabiha Çimen, Magnum Photos.
With a title inspired by Magnum co-founder Robert Capa's quote, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," Close Enough presents more than 150 works, including:
- Sabiha Çimen's explorations of the experiences of young Islamic women in Turkey
- Alessandra Sanguinetti's long-term collaboration with the rural Argentinean cousins Guille and Belinda, as they evolve from childhood into adulthood
- Bieke Depoorter's multiyear, multiform project Agata, about a young club performer in Paris
- Susan Meiselas' work with women who sought refuge from domestic violence in the Midlands, UK.
Photographers in the exhibition include Olivia Arthur, Myriam Boulos, Sabiha Çimen, Bieke Depoorter, Cristina de Middel, Carolyn Drake, Nanna Heitmann, Susan Meiselas, Hannah Price, Lua Ribeira, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Newsha Tavakolian.
Curated by Charlotte Cotton, the exhibition coincides with the 75th anniversary of Magnum Photos' founding.
DEATH IN THE MAKING
Death in the Making: Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War Photobook brings together nearly 75 original photographs and related ephemera to tell the story of Robert Capa's 1938 photobook about the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Capa,. Republican soldiers saluting through the windows of their departing train, Barcelona, Spain, August 1936. The Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive, Gift of Cornell and Edith Capa, 2010 (2010.86.16).
In addition to work by Capa, the exhibition presents new insights into the contributions of Polish American photojournalist David "Chim" Seymour, who was only recently credited for his work in the book and German photojournalist Gerda Taro. Death in the Making is dedicated to Taro and was published in the wake of her death in the Spanish Civil War.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 2020 edition of Death in the Making, published by Damiani/ICP. Curated by Cynthia Young, former curator of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography, the exhibition represents the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions that revisit and highlight the ICP permanent collection and celebrate ICP's history.
For more information see the news release below.
The International Center of Photography Announces Fall 2022 Exhibitions
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum
Death in the Making: Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War Photobook
NEW YORK -- The International Center of Photography has announced the fall 2022 exhibition schedule, featuring two exhibitions that explore how photographers embed themselves in their subject matter to document people, places, daily life and world events. Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum and Death in the Making: Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War Photobook will be on view at ICP from Sept. 30 through Jan. 9, 2023.
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum presents pivotal projects in the careers of 12 contemporary women photographers of Magnum Photos, the pioneering photography collective. Each of the photographers narrates their creative journey, providing vantage points into the extraordinary relationships they create within global situations, communities and individual subjects. With a title inspired by Magnum co-founder Robert Capa's quote "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," Close Enough presents more than 150 works, including Sabiha C[!]imen's explorations of the experiences of young Islamic women in Turkey; Alessandra Sanguinetti's long-term collaboration with the rural Argentinean cousins Guille and Belinda, as they evolve from childhood into adulthood; Bieke Depoorter's multiyear, multiform project Agata, about a young club performer in Paris; and Susan Meiselas' work with women who sought refuge from domestic violence in the Midlands, UK. Photographers in the exhibition include Olivia Arthur, Myriam Boulos, Sabiha C[!]imen, Bieke Depoorter, Cristina de Middel, Carolyn Drake, Nanna Heitmann, Susan Meiselas, Hannah Price, Lua Ribeira, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Newsha Tavakolian. Curated by Charlotte Cotton, the exhibition coincides with the 75th anniversary of Magnum Photos' founding.
Magnum Photos is a co-operative of acclaimed, independent photographers who share an ongoing commitment to documenting world events, people, places, daily life and culture. Founded in 1947, Magnum Photos has been telling stories of the past, defining the present and shaping the future through photography for over 75 years, united by its values of uncompromising excellence, truth, respect and independence. With more than 6.6 million followers across the Internet and a rolling program of museum shows, exhibitions and events across the globe, Magnum photographers continue to inspire a growing worldwide audience. In 2022, Magnum Photos celebrates its 75th year with the launch of a special anniversary program highlighting the agency's historic legacy, community and photographic practices.
Charlotte Cotton is a curator, writer and creative consultant who has explored photographic culture for over 25 years. She has held positions including curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, head of programming at The Photographers' Gallery in London, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and curator-in-residence at Katonah Museum of Art, NY. She has also held positions at ICP and California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Her book, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, is published in more than ten languages and has been a key text in charting the rise of photography as an undisputed art form in the 21st century. The fourth edition was published in September 2020.
Death in the Making: Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War Photobook brings together nearly 75 original photographs and related ephemera to tell the story of Robert Capa's iconic 1938 photobook about the Spanish Civil War. In addition to work by Capa, the exhibition presents new insights into the contributions of Polish American photojournalist David "Chim" Seymour, who was only recently credited for his work in the book and German photojournalist Gerda Taro. Death in the Making is dedicated to Taro and was published in the wake of her death in the Spanish Civil War. The exhibition is accompanied by a 2020 edition of Death in the Making, published by Damiani/ICP. Curated by Cynthia Young, former curator of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography, the exhibition represents the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions that revisit and highlight the ICP permanent collection and celebrate ICP's history.
Cynthia Young has curated numerous exhibitions on photojournalism in the 1930-50s, including Capa in Color; We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim and The Mexican Suitcase: The Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives of Robert Capa, Chim and Gerda Taro. These exhibitions traveled widely to multiple venues in France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Hungary and Sweden. She was until 2020 the curator of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at ICP, where she worked since 2000.