From October 7, 2020 to January 10, 2021, the Popular Pavilion presents “The New York school show, the New York School photographers 1936-1965”. 22 artists who initiated formal revolutions, in particular street photography.
This is the first time that such a retrospective has been organized in Europe on this photographic movement which upset the codes of the genre, from the 1930s in the USA. In an America stuck in depression, it is the birth of photojournalism supported by magazines like “Life” or “Fortune”, and whose foundations are to be found in the works of Walker Evans or Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The name “New York School Photographs” was created by the American historian Jane Livingston in the early 1990s, to bring together these breakers of beautiful image codes, who will experiment with the notion of author, the subjective gaze, attendance at other contemporary artistic disciplines.
The Montpellier exhibition presents a set of nearly 160 original prints (color and black and white) of the 22 photographers who created the photographic New York as New York shaped them: Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, Ted Croner, Homer Page, Ruth Orkin, Don Donaghy, Morris Engel, Dave Heath, Sy Kattelson, Arthur Leipzig, Louis Faurer, William Gedney, Sid Grossman, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt, Ben Shahn, David Vestal, Dan Weiner.
“The New-York school show – The photographers of the New York School 1935-1965”, from October 7, 2020 to January 10, 2021, Pavillon Populaire-Espace d’art photographique de Montpellier.
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