June 17, 2024 - Charlotte Jansen
In its 92-year history, the Courtauld Gallery in London has never acquired or exhibited photography – until now. Its inaugural exhibition is Roger Mayne: Youth, devoted to some 60 works by the self-taught British photographer best known for his documents of working-class children on the poor and battered streets of postwar London.
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June 14, 2024 - Florence Hallett
His striking, often beautiful pictures of children, are real, unaffected and never sentimental.
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June 13, 2024 - Mark Hudson
The photographer may not be a household name, but his gritty, monochrome images of 1950s Britain are instantly recognisable, brought together in this lovingly curated must-see show at the Courtauld Gallery.
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June 12, 2024 - Jane Alison
June 14 – September 1
Acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) was famous for his evocative documentary images of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s.
This exhibition, of around 60 almost exclusively vintage photographs, includes many of his iconic street images of children and teenagers, alongside an almost entirely unknown selection of intimate and moving later images of his own family at home in Dorset, as well as those taken on his honeymoon in Spain in 1962.
Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found it.
This is The Courtauld's first ever photography exhibition.
June 8, 2024
The Courtauld Gallery’s first ever photography exhibition celebrates the work of the Cambridge photographer, with his focus on emerging youth cultures in the 1950s and 1960s.
He had been influential in helping photography to gain acceptance as an art form. Fittingly, his work now forms the first ever exhibition of photography at the Courtauld Gallery.
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April 12, 2024 - Tyler Kepner
An orchestrated salute, however noble, can only go so far. It is best, perhaps, to view Jackie Robinson Day as an invitation, a chance to study and understand the complexities and nuances of a man who was much more than a surface-level hero. In that spirit, here are a couple ways to do it.
Reiferson’s collection will be presented as an exhibit, “Jackie Robinson and the Color Line,” from Monday through May 24 at the Gitterman Gallery in New York. The photos and artifacts, including telegrams and letters, comprise more than Robinson’s journey and stretch back to the integrated teams of the late 1800s.
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March 22, 2024 - Abby Schultz
The exhibition at Gitterman Gallery, which runs from April 15 to May 24, will tell even more forgotten stories through vintage photographs, telegrams, and other artifacts of Black players such as Roy Partlow, Johnny Wright, and Dan Bankhead—lesser-known peers of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ player renowned for breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947...
The thread through Reiferson’s collecting is a desire to chronicle American history. The Gitterman Gallery exhibition, for instance, aims to paint a fuller picture of baseball’s slow and difficult path to integration in the U.S., while also revealing the power and beauty of photography.
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March 18, 2024 - Rich Muller
Original historic baseball photographs and memorabilia from a private collection are the center piece of an upcoming exhibit that aims to tell the story of baseball’s journey toward integration.
Jackie Robinson and the Color Line is set to open Monday, April 15 at the Gitterman Gallery in New York, coinciding with Major League Baseball’s Jackie Robinson Day. It will run through May 24.
Items provided by long time collector Paul Reiferson are the centerpiece.
The exhibition frames Robinson’s odyssey within a larger one that had begun 60 years earlier, when men like Fleet and Weldy Walker, Sol White, Robert Higgins, and Javan Emory played for integrated teams in the late 19th century.
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November 29, 2023 - Max Wiener
František Drtikol and Josef Sudek, two Czech avant-garde photographers, have their works paired together for this stunning exhibition, aptly entitled Czech Avant-Garde. Here, the lights and glamor of fame and fortune are replaced for true authenticity, showcasing talent and artisanry like few photography exhibitions do. Drtikol and Sudek are to be studied as true pioneers, and this series proves that their work belongs in the pantheon of the twentieth century’s photography palette.
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October 25, 2023 - Loring Knoblauch
The strongest of the images in this small show draw us into Meatyard’s dreamlike world, seducing us with unexpectedly strange and macabre situations. Few photographers since have
explored these spiritual netherworlds with such visual sophistication. Seeing the three series on view here is a particular treat, as they haven’t been shown or reproduced as often as many of Meatyard’s more famous projects. Placed between singular works from the 1960s and the Lucybelle Crater series of the early 1970s, they provide an important stylistic bridge, beginning to connect together a range of separate ideas into more layered narrative forms.
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