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Beyond the Harlem Renaissance

African American Portraits by Carl Van Vechten

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Simpson Kalisher, Untitled, c. 1959. Pedestrians walk horizontally across the frame on a sidewalk across the street from the Bank of New York, seen in the background.

New York Stories

Vintage Postwar Photographs February 6 – March 27, 2020

Margaret Bourke-White, 'Frank W.' on the Cuyahoga, c. 1929. Small steam ship marked "Frank W." in the water near a dock.

Four Vintage Photographs by Fourteen Women Photographers November 2019 – January 2020

Marvin E. Newman, Chicago, 1950. A boy walks on the sidewalk toward the camera, hands in pockets, with a chewing gum bubble obscuring most of his face.

Wayne Miller & Marvin E. Newman

"The Way of Life of The Northern Negro," 1946 - 1947 "Chicago: The Black Migration North," 1949–1950 September 11–November 9 2019

Nino Migliori, The Diver, 1951. One man jumps over another into the ocean.

June–August 2019

George Platt Lynes, Show Piece, The Ballet Caravan, 1937. Three male figures pose seated on blocks facing left, forward, and right.

George Platt Lynes

Portraits, Nudes & Dance April–May 2019

Wayne F. Miller, Billy Eckstine, 1948. Subject is seated, smiling, at a club table with two other figures. A woman sings on stage in the background.

Portraits Of Distinguished African Americans February–March 2019

Harold Haliday Costain November 2018–January 2019

Bert Stern, Martini & Pyramid, for Smirnoff Vodka, 1955. Martini glass on sand with a triangle shape out of focus in the background.

Paris Photo 2018

Nuova Fotografia Italiana September–November 2018

PaJaMa, Glenway Wescott, George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, [unidentified], c. 1941. Four men on the beach with a thick rope connecting them. Three are standing (left), one lays facedown in the sand.

Magic Realism June–August 2018

Marvin D. Koehler, Untitled, c. 1955. A woman lays in shallow water amidst crashing waves, legs raised up above her. She is smiling and the scene is blurred with motion.

Mid-Century American

Vintage Photographs From The Collection Of Norman Hall April–June 2018

Anthony Barboza, James Baldwin - Author, 1975. Subject stands to the left of square frame with his shadow cast to the right onto the backdrop.

Portraits By Anthony Barboza January–March 2018

Pino Dal Gal, Capo Testa (Sardinia), 1977. Abstracted nude torso photographed from behind against a stone landscape.

Abstraction In 20th Century Italian Photography November 2017–January 2018

Paul J. Woolf, New York Skyline at Dusk, c. 1935. Night time cityscape with overcast sky and one building filling the left quarter of the vertical frame.

Vintage Photographs of New York City Architecture October–November 2017

Doris Ulmann, Untitled (Fisherman), 1928–1934. Man seated on the bow of a small fishing boat holding a basket and fish.

Vintage Photographs June–August 2017

Picture the Word

A Group Exhibition of Vintage Photographs April–June 2017

20. Beuford Smith, Playing 'Hide and Seek,' 1968. A young boy stands against the corner of a run-down building.

Photographs by Beuford Smith February–March 2017

Mario Giacomelli, Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi, 1966–1968. High contrast image. A cloaked woman in the foreground with closed eyes, facing the left of the frame. Various figures out of focus behind her.

Renzo Tortelli: Piccolo Mondo | Mario Giacomelli: Verrà la Morte e Avrà i Tuoi Occhi

Vintage Mid-Century Italian Photographs December 2016–January 2017

David Newell Smith, The man in Downing Street was praying for Mr. Wilson who had just become the Prime Minister, c. 1966. A figure with an umbrella kneels on the lower left of the frame across the street from a horse-drawn carriage.

British Photographers at Home and Abroad

Mid-Century Photographs from the Collection of Norman Hall September–October 2016

Léonard Misonne, La brise, 1926. A group of girls walk along the beach with bare feet in the water. Gray/green-toned print.

Léonard Misonne

Painterly Photographs May–July 2016