International Center of Photography

ICP Crit Lab with D’Angelo Lovell Williams runs November 11—December 9, aimed at refining your vision and developing your unique photographic style and voice.⁠ Visit https://lnkd.in/e2G8fUPy to learn more and sign up today.⁠ ⁠ D’Angelo Lovell Williams ( @yerbakente ) is an acclaimed photographer whose intimate and vulnerable images explore Blackness, queerness, family, and desire. Williams has exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum and Higher Pictures Generation, and their work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Lumber Room, Portland, Memphis Brooks Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Tate Modern, and The Whitney Museum of American Art. ⁠ ⁠ Images by D’Angelo Lovell Williams

Join us at ICP this Thursday, November 6 for a screening of Gioncarlo Valentine: Exposures, directed by Zeshawn Ali. Following the screening, Valentine will be joined in conversation by writer @caseygerald.⁠ ⁠ Reserve tickets now: https://lnkd.in/eHq--dJG ⁠ In Exposures, @gioncarlovalentine's lush and tender photography is on full display. For his work as a queer Black photographer from Baltimore, he has dedicated his career towards creating an archive of everyday moments to honor the beauty of his community. But as his profile as a photographer grows, he reckons with the increased visibility and what it means for the work he creates. This film was commissioned by the "In the Making" Series –– a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media –– which follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines.⁠ ⁠ Images by Gioncarlo Valentine⁠ ⁠ @firelight_media @pbsamericanmasters⁠ ⁠

Walker Evans was born today in 1903, in St. Louis, Missouri. ⁠ ⁠ Evans studied at Williams College and the Sorbonne in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1928, and five years later, though self-taught in photography, was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and had his photographs published in Hart Crane's The Bridge (1930) and in Lincoln Kirstein's Hound & Horn (1931). ⁠ ⁠ Evans worked for the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1937, during which time he made many of the photographs for Walker Evans: American Photographs, an exhibition and publication organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 1938. Another of Evans's many photographic series was Many Are Called, comprised of images taken in the New York City subway system using a hidden camera between 1938 and 1945. ⁠ ⁠ Evans received three Guggenheim Fellowships and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Between 1943 and 1965, he worked as a staff photographer for Time and Fortune. After retiring from professional photography in 1965, he taught graphic arts at Yale.⁠ ⁠ Text by Lisa Hostetler⁠ ⁠ Images⁠ ⁠ 1: Walker Evans, Main St., Ossining, New York, 1932, Gift of Reva Logan, 1981 (50.1981.f)⁠ 2: Walker Evans, [Interior View of Walker Evans's Apartment at 441 East 92nd Street Showing Kitchen Area, New York City], Gift of Tennyson and Fern M. Schad, 1997 (220.1996)⁠ 3: Walker Evans, Tin False Front Building, Moundville, Alabama, 1936, Gift of Reva Logan, 1981 (50.1981.m)⁠ 4: Walker Evans, [Dockworker with Shovel and Bottle, Havana], 1933, Gift of June Sidman, 1981 (130.1981)

Ready to take your photography to the next level? Come work with Bill Armstrong to refine your vision and strengthen your portfolio in this on-site class, open to all genres and working methods.⁠ Class runs November 6–December 11.⁠ ⁠ Bill Armstrong ( @billarmstrongphoto ) is an internationally recognized fine art photographer whose work is represented in major museum collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Whether you bring in-progress work or start something new, you’ll leave this class with a stronger portfolio and a clearer artistic direction.⁠ ⁠ Learn more and sign up: https://lnkd.in/e_rqJ6e5

Bill Armstrong sharing a bit about his practice and upcoming ICP Crit Lab course, running November 6–December 11.⁠ ⁠ @billarmstrongphoto is an internationally recognized fine art photographer whose work is represented in major museum collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Whether you bring in-progress work or start something new, you’ll leave class with a stronger portfolio and a clearer artistic direction.⁠ ⁠ Learn more and sign up at https://lnkd.in/e_rqJ6e5

Today is Día de Muertos—The Day of the Dead in Mexico. You can see this image alongside many others of Mexican Indigenous cultures, ritual, and reflection in Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, on view in the ICP Galleries now through January 12. ⁠ ⁠ ICP is open this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, from 10:30 AM–6:30 PM. Be sure to stop in and see the impactful work of Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play alongside Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, and Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies. Get tickets now at www.icp.org/visit ⁠ Image: Graciela Iturbide, México (Mexico), 1969. Collection Fundación MAPFRE © Graciela Iturbide

Happy Halloween! Looking for last minute costume ideas? Here's some favorites from ICP's collections.⁠ ⁠ 1⁠: [Jane Fonda wearing space-age costume in publicity still for Roger Vadim's film "Barbarella"], 1968, printed in 2004, The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005 (2461.2005)⁠ 2⁠: Weegee. [man in costume], ca. 1950, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (15791.1993)⁠ 3⁠: Skippy Adelman, Zero Mostel, 1944, Gift of Michael Sonnenfeldt, 2013 (2013.115.348)⁠ 4⁠: Weegee, Prisoner costumes (distortion), New York, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (12646.1993)⁠ 5⁠: Weegee [Human Tree], ca. 1954, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (15835.1993)⁠ 6⁠: Larry Fink, Parson's School of Design, Costume Party, 1972, Gift of Robert Pollak, 1986 (773.1986)⁠ 7⁠: Weegee, "The Foreman Of The Devils Was Peeved... because the assistant devils were not in costume.", 1945, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (14581.1993)⁠

Here's your pre-Halloween costume inspo, all the way from the 19th century! (Bonus points for anyone who can tell us what "The Giggler" costume is.) Image: Unidentified photographer, Ida Cushman as "The Giggler", Alice Cushman as Queen Elizabeth, Julie Hood as "The Dancing Girl", Helen Gardner as Cleopatra, Una Longfellow as Maud Muller, Rye Beach, 1874. Gift of Steven Kasher and Susan Spungen Kasher, 2008 (2008.81.73)

In 1958, Richard Avedon photographed Marilyn Monroe dressed as five different iconic Hollywood actresses—Theda Bara, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Russell, and Clara Bow—for LIFE Magazine. Monroe is a chameleon in the images, channeling the poses and mannerisms of each actress, from the smoldering intensity of Theda Bara to the ethereal aloofness of Jean Harlow. Images: 1: Richard Avedon, [Marilyn Monroe impersonating Theda Bara], 1958. The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005 (1245.2005) 2: Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe mimics Jean Harlow, 1958. The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005 (1247.2005)

"What drives my work is surprise, wonder, dreams, and imagination,” @gracielaiturbide recently told @guardian⁠ ⁠ In her interview, she says: “Do you know why my photos of women have traveled the world? Because I’ve lived with them, gone to the market, sold jitomates with them, and slept in their houses. They become my collaborators. It’s my way of creating camaraderie, a sense of complicity,” she explains. “I always photograph with the consent and collaboration of the people.”⁠ ⁠ Read about Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play in @vogue, @aestheticamag, @museemagazine, @guardian, and more. The exhibition is on view at ICP through January 12, 2026—get tickets before the holiday season now, at www.icp.org/exhibitions.