Monthly Archives: May 2011

Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945

Posted on May 23, 2011 by erinbarnett

Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945, a selection of 62 once-classified US government vintage prints of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, is now on view at ICP. Learn how 700 of these photographs became part … Continue reading →

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Beauty Knows No Pain

Posted on May 19, 2011 by rachelelizabethseed

Elliott Erwitt, recipient of the 2011 ICP Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award and featured artist in ICP’s upcoming exhibition, has also worn the hat of film director. One of his early films, Beauty Knows No Pain (1972), is a short documentary … Continue reading →

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Elliott Erwitt: Winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted on May 10, 2011 by erinbarnett

Elliott Erwitt, Bakersfield, California, 1983 Elliott Erwitt, Diana, New York, 1949 Elliott Erwitt, Cracked Glass with Boy, Colorado, 1955 Elliott Erwitt, St. Tropez, 1968 Elliott Erwitt, Bratsk, Siberia, 1967 Congratulations to Elliott Erwitt, who will be presented with the 2011 … Continue reading →

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Ruth Orkin: Portraits of Bernstein

Posted on May 9, 2011 by marthafern

Ruth Orkin, Bernstein Conducting, 1947 Ruth Orkin, Bernstein Playing Piano, 1947 Ruth Orkin, Marian Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, Lewinsohn Stadium, 1947 Leonard Bernstein (American, August 25, 1918–October 14, 1990 was an acclaimed conductor, composer, author, and pianist. His fame derived from … Continue reading →

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted on May 8, 2011 by erinbarnett

Malick Sidibé, Mère et Enfants, ca.1975/2003 Chim (David Seymour), [Mother nursing a baby while listening to political speech, near Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain], late April/early May 1936 W. Eugene Smith, [newborn infant being presented to Alice Cooper], from Nurse Midwife, 1951 … Continue reading →

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Harry Callahan: Color Photography

Posted on May 3, 2011 by lfabra

Harry Callahan began making color pictures almost as soon as he started photographing but they existed only as Kodachrome transparencies. In the late 1970s he began producing dye transfer prints. Harry Callahan, Ragsdale Beauty Shop, Detroit, 1951 In 1941 I … Continue reading →

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