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Exhibitions at The Research Libraries Recent Acquisitions: New York Street Photography from the 1960s and 1970sFrom February 24, 2006 through June 24, 2006 See related Online Exhibition.  Joel Meyerowitz Rockefeller Center, 1970 Gelatin silver print from the portfolio Joel Meyerowitz, The Early Works (1999) Gift of Howard W. Bersch © Joel Meyerowitz Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery This exhibition features the work of three New York photographers, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Joel Meyerowitz, who played a major role in the emergence of street photography as a central photographic practice in the 1960s. Following the lead of William Klein and Robert Frank, these photographers helped to transform documentary photography with their eccentric vision of the world. As the practice extended into the 1970s, street photography absorbed other artistic movements, as evidenced by the work of William Gedney, Roy Colmer, and Thomas Struth, whose photographs demonstrate both the continuity and diversity of photography in the streets of New York. The show is the first in a planned series of exhibitions that will showcase recently acquired New York City photographs from 1950 to the present. |