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A museum and school dedicated to photography and visual culture.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through our exhibitions, school, public programs, and community outreach, we offer an open forum for dialogue about the role images play in our culture. Since our founding, we have presented more than 700 exhibitions

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Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day—we're eating chocolates and gazing in awe at these couples from the collection.⁠

Stop by the galleries with your sweetheart this weekend to see our exhibitions on view— Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, American Job: 1940–2011, and To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography.⁠

Get tickers: https://www.icp.org/exhibitions

Images⁠

1: Larry Clark, Young street couple, male wearing Grateful Dead t-shirt, ca. 1975. Gift of LeGrand P. Belnap, MD, 2007 (2007.90.14)⁠

2: Joanne Leonard, Couple watching TV, ca. 1973, West Berkeley, CA. Gift of Joanne Leonard, 2018 (2018.33.14)⁠

3: Weegee, [Couple kissing], ca.1945, New York. Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (2091.1993)⁠

4: Anthony Friedkin, Female Couple, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1970, California, Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir, 2011 (2011.70.9)⁠

5: Anthony Friedkin, Gay Couple on Dance Floor, Troupers Hall, Hollywood, 1970. Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir, 2011 (2011.70.18)⁠

6: Frank Cundill, Unidentified Photographer, Happy Couple, 1911-20s. Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Acquisitions Committee, 2006 (2006.20.349)⁠

7: Anthony Friedkin, Gay Couple outside Church, 1970, California. Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir, 2011 (2011.70.44)⁠

8: Bruce Davidson, [Couple in white, New York], 1966, New York. Gift of Bruce Davidson, 2006 (2006.15.61)⁠

9: Anthony Friedkin, Gay Couple at Gay Picnic, 1971, California. Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir, 2011 (2011.70.5)⁠

10: Eugene Roquemore, Wedding Couple, 1960s, Lubbock Texas. Gift of Documentary Arts Inc., 2014 (DA.1C17B.48)

02/13/2025

In September 2011, the creation of an encampment in New York's Zucotti Park marked the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement. OWS protesters pointed out, among other things, the paradox of an economic system built to accumulate and safeguard large amounts of capital, and the disparities of a system that heralded profits for a select group, even in times when working people were struggling with rising food and rent costs. Accra Shepp's images of OWS are both a document of the movement as a whole and a touchingly personal look at the individuals involved.

On Feb 27, 6 PM, visit as Accra Shepp joins host Idris Talib Solomon at ICP for a live taping of Black Shutter Podcast. Find tickets at https://bit.ly/4hBcv0H.

You can also find Accra's work on view now alongside 70 decades of photography of labor movements and activism in American Job: 1940–2011.

Image: Accra Shepp, Yajaira, Mixtec nation, who came to the United States at the age of four, 2011, © Accra Shepp, Courtesy Convoke NYC

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 02/12/2025

Join us online on Feb 28, 1 PM, as photographers Sirui Ma and Nick Sansone discuss the landscape of labor. The two will chat about their recent projects documenting labor in New York City, from Ma’s portraits of MTA conductors to Sansone’s exploration of the city’s iconic bodegas.

Learn more + register for this free conversation at https://www.icp.org/events/the-landscape-of-labor-sirui-ma-nick-sansone

02/11/2025

ICP One-Year Program alum Arda Asena's exhibition Interstitial is now on view at Baxter Street! Learn more about Arda's multidisciplinary work in photography, sculpture, and textile, and their process for weaving textile work from photographs.

Interstitial is on view at Baxter Street through Feb 26.

Learn more about ICP's One-Year Programs at oyc.icp.org

Video by ICP student Max Ihlenburg

02/10/2025

What photo trends will we be seeing more of in 2025? We asked ICP staff to weigh in. m. iamartino, artist, writer, and ICP marketing team member, is ready for "more affordable + DIY processes like collage, installation, performance, and alt processes; Hoping we form a magical luddite movement in response to AI. I'll be expanding upon some of these movements in photography in my upcoming spring lecture course at ICP— Sensing the Edge: Q***r + Feminist Photographic Archives."

Who are photographers making work that m. is excited about? "I love seeing work from friends/peers that follows their ethea + challenges traditional frameworks—Kelsey Sucena, Julia Durr, Rob Contreras, Alicia Mersy, Claudia Hermano, Morgan King, Adrienne Bennett, the Abortion Herb Garden by Landon Newtown, and the Gender Network site by Sky Syzygy all come to mind."

There's lots coming up this year—among other art things, m. is excited for— "Paul Preciado's latest book with Fitzcarraldo Editions, Dysphoria Mundi; Hito Steyerl's new book, Images in the Age of Heat; and I'll be revisiting images from Widline Cadet, Keisha Scarville, and Koyoltzintli in To Conjure at ICP."

Learn more about m's upcoming course Sensing the Edge: Q***r + Feminist Photographic Archives at https://bit.ly/3WRaBAA.

Image © Caiti Borruso

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 02/09/2025

For Super Bowl Sunday—selections from the collection. Sports photography has evolved through the years alongside technological advancements. The introduction of the 35mm camera, for instance, revolutionized the realm of sports photography (as it did all other genres of the medium), allowing for easier capture of critical moments. ⁠

Beyond on-the-field action shots, there were studio methods for depicting athletes in motion—an example can be seen in Gjon Mili's image ( #4) of a football player being photographed stroboscopically. In stroboscopic photography, a camera's shutter is left open while a series of strobes illuminate the subject in motion.⁠

Images⁠

1: Gene Badger, [Thurston Ebbersten machine stitching footballs], 1940, Gift of Michael Sonnenfeldt, 2013 (013.115.437)⁠

2: Bill Owens, My prayer is to the god of football..., 1973, Gift of Robert Shimshak, 2005 (2388.2005)⁠

3: Martin Munkacsi, [Man kicking football, Hawaii], 1939, Museum Purchase, 2007 (2007.110.2182)⁠

4: Gjon Mili, [Dr. Harold E. Edgerton taking stroboscopic picture of Joe Maniaci, ace running back of the Chicago Bears, kicking a football], 1939, The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005 (1199.2005)

02/08/2025

"Weegee was particularly interested in the way that emotions showed in the faces of observers. Suspecting that his presence altered their reactions, he had the clever idea of photographing them in a darkened movie theater, using infrared film. In this way, he created striking portraits of audience members with their pupils dilated." —Weegee: Society of the Spectacle (Thames & Hudson)

See more images from this series, on view in the Seeing in the Dark section of Weegee: Society of the Spectacle. Learn more at icp.org/exhibitions. You can also find the Society of the Spectacle book in our shop.

Images: Weegee, [Girl watching movie, Palace Theater, New York], ca. 1943. Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (7385.1993)

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 02/07/2025

💖 Two upcoming days to see shows for free + come together at ICP.

Visit us soon for:
⭐️ ICP Community Day, February 15, 11 AM–3 PM
A free day of activities such as a book signing, screening, tours of shows and darkrooms, and presentations by community partners (En Foco, Chinatown Basketball Club, Bronx Documentary Center)

⭐️ Free Third Thursday x Late Night ICP—Black History Month Market, 5–8 PM
See shows and browse an ICP Black History Month Market! Shop unique goods from Black-owned businesses and get your headshot made at our portrait studio hosted by Photodom.

RSVP for these events at icp.org/events.

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 02/06/2025

Fashion Week is here — we're taking a look at some of the best accessories in the collection. ⁠

Images⁠
1: Andy Warhol, Shoes, 1980, Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2008 (2008.58.94)⁠
2: Samuel Fosso, Self Portrait, 1977, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Aquisitions Committee, 2004 (16.2004)⁠
3: Martin Munkacsi, Man Ray, Horst P. Horst, Harper's Bazaar, January 1937, Museum Purchase, 2007 (2007.81.22)⁠
4: Eugene Roquemore, [Woman wearing beret and leather jacket with purse], Gift of Documentary Arts Inc., 2014 (DA.1C17B.29)⁠
5: Gjon Mili, [Fashion advertisement for Saks Fifth Avenue], 1946, Museum Purchase, 1998 (7.1998)⁠
6: Ilse Bing, The Honorable Daisy Fellowes, Gloves by Dent in London for Harper's Bazaar, 1933, Gift of Ilse Bing, 1991 (17.1991) © Ilse Bing⁠
7: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Mary Jane Russell in Dior swan hat, Paris, 1949, Gift of Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1982 (80.1982)

02/05/2025

Meetup + giveaway! Stop by this Saturday for our Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers and photo fans.

This session of Cameras & Coffee will be hosted by creative advisory Marginalized in Mind, founded by Chaya Howell. Plus, MPB, the world’s largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video gear, will be raffling off a $500 voucher. Don't miss this one.

Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP in our cafe the second Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP: https://www.icp.org/events/cameras-and-coffee-community-meet-up-february-2025

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 02/04/2025

“Receiving the Jan Mulder scholarship...has had a profound impact on my career and dreams as a photographer, as well as on my life—it truly changed my life. Being at ICP was a mind-changing experience, where heart, mind, and eye began to combine to create projects, goals, and dreams...It was an incredible year in which I met people who are now my friends, and I feel like part of a family that deeply cares about the world of visuals and images and I’m infinitely grateful.”
—Klaus Galiano, 2024 Jan Mulder scholarship recipient

Applications are now open for the Jan Mulder-Pacific Scholarship! This scholarship supports talented photographers from Pacific coast countries of the Americas: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru, offering full tuition and fees for one academic year in ICP's One-Year Certificate Program in either Creative Practices or Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism.

Apply before March 3 at https://icp.slideroom.com/ #/Login.

All images © Klaus Galiano

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 01/29/2025

Did you know 2025 is the year of the snake? To celebrate — a few slithery images from the collection.⁠

Images:⁠

1: Frank Wendt, [Barnum and Bailey's Circus Snake Charmer, Miss Maxine], 1913, Boonton, New Jersey, Gift of Janna Rosenkranz and Jim Linderman, 2011 (2011.47.72)⁠

2: Frank Wendt, [Snake Charmer], 1898–ca. 1905, Boonton, New Jersey, Gift of Janna Rosenkranz and Jim Linderman, 2011 (2011.47.76)⁠

3: Frank Wendt, [Snake Charmer], 1893–1898, Boonton, New Jersey, Gift of Janna Rosenkranz and Jim Linderman, 2011 (2011.47.73)⁠

4: Frank Wendt, [Snake Charmer], 1898–ca. 1905, Boonton, New Jersey, Gift of Janna Rosenkranz and Jim Linderman, 2011 (2011.47.75)⁠

5: Frank Wendt, [Snake Charmer], 1898–ca. 1905, Boonton, New Jersey, Gift of Janna Rosenkranz and Jim Linderman, 2011 (2011.47.74)⁠

6: Chim (David Seymour)[Two children playing with a snake at the feast of San Domenico, Cocullo, Italy], 1951, Copyright © David Seymour/Magnum Photos (1020.2002)⁠

7: Chim (David Seymour)[Snake around putto sculpture, Cocullo, Italy], 1951, Ben Shneiderman Collection, courtesy Howard Greenberg (BS1850)⁠

8: Weegee, (Snake head in bottle) © International Center of Photography (6254.1993)

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 01/29/2025

Happy Lunar New Year!⁠

Images:⁠
⁠1: Weegee, [Chinatown Lion dance], New York, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 © International Center of Photography (14541.1993)⁠

2: W. J. Moulton, Son, Moon & Stars, ca.1864, Elmire, New York, Museum Purchase, 2003 (140.2003)

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 01/28/2025

Don't miss Keisha Scarville's work focused on loss, transformation, and the elusive body, now on view at ICP and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

At CPW, Scarville designed "Recess," a photography and textile exhibition whose shadows and folds create alternate, liminal places that engage both memory and the possibilities of abstraction. “Recess” was curated by Marina Chao. CPW exhibition hours are Thu-Sun, 11 AM-5 PM.

Scarville's work is also on view through May 5, 2025 at ICP, in the group show To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography. In the series Alma/Mama's Clothes, the artist takes her late mother’s clothes and recontextualizes them through photography and performance, using them to explore the "materiality of absence." To Conjure is co-curated by Scarville, with ICP's Sara Ickow and Elisabeth Sherman.

Learn more about these exhibitions by visiting each institution's bio.

Images:
1: Keisha Scarville, Untitled Still Life #1 from the series Alma/Mama's Clothes, 2016. © Keisha Scarville, courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures
2: Keisha Scarville, Within/Between/Corpus (7), 2020. © Keisha Scarville, courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures
3: Keisha Scarville, Untitled #6 from the series Alma/Mama's Clothes, 2016. © Keisha Scarville, courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures
4: Installation view, Keisha Scarville: Recess, Center for Photography at Woodstock. Image © GP Selvaggio
5, 6: Installation view, Keisha Scarville: Recess, Center for Photography at Woodstock. © Eduard Hueber/archphoto

Photos from ICP - International Center of Photography's post 01/27/2025

Thank you again to all who visited for the opening of 2025 winter exhibitions! Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job: 1940–2011 are all now on view through May 5—visit us soon and experience the exhibitions in person.

As always, more at icp.org/exhibitions.

Images © Will Ragozzino/scottruddevents.com

01/25/2025

Where is photography headed in 2025? We asked David Campany, ICP's Creative Director, what trends we might expect to see this year: "AI is in its infancy, and this past year we have seen artistic responses swing between the dystopian and the utopian. But there are emerging signs of AI being taken up by photographers and image makers more broadly in smart, creative and critical ways."

Of course, anything is possible this year: "It's tempting to want to retire trends, but there's always going to be someone who comes along and does something amazing just when you thought all hope was exhausted. It's not for me or anyone else to censor."

And what is David making time to see this season? "The ICP exhibition American Job, curated by Makeda Best largely from ICP's collection. In a culture that likes to think it is defined by what it consumes, the depiction of work and workers' movements doesn't get the attention it deserves."

Learn more about American Job and all upcoming shows at icp.org/exhibitions.

01/20/2025

Nearly 60 years ago, in the spring of 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led hundreds on a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. The marchers would be turned back by violence but eventually the crowd would swell to 25,000 and reach the Alabama State Capitol building with a petition for Gov. George Wallace. Months later, Congress would sign into law the Voting Rights Act, design to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

Flip Schulke's image from the march is dramatic and ironic, depicting King in front of the American flag, a symbol of freedom in a country where King and others were still constantly fighting for their own rights.

Image: Flip Schulke, [Martin Luther King Jr. leading second march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama], March 1965. Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir, 2012 (2012.97.3) © 1986 Flip Schulke, "King Remembered"

01/19/2025

How can photographers help us reimagine the past?

In To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, seven artists revise our notions of the archive—and investigate how materials of the past can help us not only recuperate our own histories, but think of new futures.

Born in Haiti, Widline Cadet foregrounds her and her family’s experience with migration as a way of exploring how identity and belonging can be split across time and space, and how images can be used to complete otherwise incomplete family histories and archives.

To Conjure is on view starting January 23. Learn more at icp.org/toconjure.

Image: Widline Cadet, Ghost Feelings, 2023. © Widline Cadet. Courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio

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