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International Center Of Photography Presents ‘We Sleep’

From September 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008, the International Center of Photography (ICP), 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, will present Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep: A Project by Francesc Torres.

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International Center Of Photography Presents ‘Other Weapons’

Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War, on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP), from September 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008, places a selection of these publications in relation to the posters and other forms of ephemera in which photography was used to record the war’s main events and to create dynamic propaganda.

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International Center Of Photography Presents ‘This Is War’

Robert Capa is, without a doubt, one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century. His most striking images—of the Spanish Civil War, of the Sino-Japanese conflict, of World War II—all appeared in the pages of the leading picture magazines of the day. This was the context in which Capa worked and was known, and where he honed his skills as a master of the cinematic photo narrative.

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International Center Of Photography Presents ‘Other Weapon’

Gerda Taro (1910-1937) was a pioneering photojournalist who spent her brief but dramatic career photographing on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. From September 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008, the International Center of Photography (ICP), 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, will present the first major exhibition of Taro’s work.

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Biographical Landscapes At Center Of Photography

New York International Center of Photography presents drawings from Uncommon Places collection The exhibition will run through September 9, 2007.

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Photographs By David Seymour At Center Of Photography

New York International Center of Photography presents works by Photographer David Seymour, on view through September 9, 2007.

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African American Portraits At Center Of Photography

International Center Of Photography presents Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits on view through September 9, 2007.

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Martin Munkacsi: Think While You Shoot

As she runs toward him on a chilly Long Island beach in November of 1933, Martin Munkacsi snaps a photo of a model dressed in a fashionable swimsuit. In that instant he revolutionizes fashion photography forever. Freeing photographers from the confines of their studios and models from their rigid poses, Munkacsi (1896-1963) introduced fresh ideas and a new spontaneity to the world of fashion imagery.

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Louise Brooks And "New Woman" In Weimar Cinema

The American silent-film actress Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the great female icons in the history of cinema. Although she starred in over thirty films, Brooks is best known for the role of Lulu in the classic German film Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G.W. Pabst.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook

At the beginning of World War II, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp for three years before he escaped in 1943. To the outside world, he was presumed dead, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York prepared to do a memorial exhibition (which ultimately took place in 1947). When Cartier-Bresson emerged, alive, he joined the efforts to assemble the retrospective.

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