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Slate's daily feature called "Today's Pictures" is a joint product of Slate and Magnum Photos.
Magnum, founded after WW II by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour, has become synonymous with the term photojournalism.
A new gallery of Magnum images (from yesteryear) will be posted every weekday morning.
Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection
December 9, 2005 - February 26, 2006
Little is known about the private lives of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their social transactions took place for the most part outside of public view and often away from the camera's lens. This exhibition offers a glimpse into the rarely seen everyday lives of African Americans through a variety of photographic genres and poses: formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits, and "Southern-views" that were made for tourist consumption. While some of the sitters were celebrities of the day, the majority of subjects are unnamed Americans. The images attest to photography's ability to record personal histories for private uses and to create historical documents. This exhibition and its catalogue explore ICP's Daniel Cowin Collection of African American History, a trove of more than 2,000 postcards, stereographs, cartes-de-visite, tintypes, albumen prints, and gelatin silver prints. Taken together, these ephemeral images provide an important window into African American cultural life from 1860 to about 1930.
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
212-857-0000
Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
December 9, 2005 - February 26, 2006
The Body at Risk explores ten significant photographic projects from the last one hundred years that depict the vulnerabilities of the human condition. The exhibition shows how individual lives are shaped by a range of challenging circumstances, including war, disease, poverty, pollution, domestic violence, age, and labor. It will provide insight into the social context in which the photographs were taken by integrating perspectives from anthropology, sociology, political history, photographic history, and news coverage along with writings and interviews by and with the photographers. Among the sixteen renowned photographers represented are Donna Ferrato, Lori Grinker, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gideon Mendel, Sebastiao Salgado, and W. Eugene Smith.
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
212-857-0000