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City skyline with the towering Empire State Building in center frame. A dirigible is docked on the left at the highest point of the building.

The Empire State Building: A Celebration in Photographs

90th Anniversary of the World's Most Famous Building

June – August 2021

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Shawn Walker, Untitled, c. 1965
3 POINTS OF VIEW BY KAMOINGE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Anthony Barboza, Beuford Smith, & Shawn Walker November 23, 2020 – February 26, 2021
Waist-up portrait of the figure, shirtless, in profile, holding a traditional mask to face him so they are nose-to-nose.
Beyond the Harlem Renaissance
African American Portraits by Carl Van Vechten June 11 – September 18, 2020
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.
4 x 14
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.
Nino Migliori
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.
Light & Dark
Portraits Of Distinguished African Americans February–March 2019
Sugar & Salt
Sugar & Salt
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
November 2018
Neorealismo
Neorealismo
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.
Pa Ja Ma
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.
Black Borders
Portraits By Anthony Barboza January–March 2018
Pino Dal Gal, Capo Testa (Sardinia), ​1977. Abstracted nude torso photographed from behind against a stone landscape.
Astratto
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.
Paul J. Woolf
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.
Doris Ulmann
Vintage Photographs June–August 2017
General Picture News, Churches Warning to Girls, c. 1920. A woman in profile on the right of the frame with one hand on a pasted sign that begins: "Warning to girls: Do not under any circumstances accept drives in Motor Cars, or Motor Lorries, or rides on Motor Cycles, with any man, or woman whom you do not personally know..."
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.
Black Lives
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