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Happy Passover!
Happy Passover! Young women eating matzoh and singing Passover songs at a community seder, Educational Alliance, New York City, 1949 ©Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography...
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Unrestricting the Normative
Weegee, Youth is always beautiful, ca. 1945 Weegee, Girls at the bar, ca. 1946 Weegee, Dancing is free in Central Park, ca. 1938 Tagged: bar, Central Park, dancing, New York City, queer, Weegee,...
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Happy Fourth of July!
Throughout the 1940s, American Jewish social service organizations provided assistance to recent immigrants. Some, including New York’s Educational Alliance, incorporated flag-waving exercises as a...
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“Trick Mirror Shows Some Human Conceits”
Yale Joel, [Woman checking eyelid in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York], 1946 (1930.2005) Yale Joel, [Man adjusting overcoat and grimacing, while looking in trick...
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The Destruction of Lower Manhattan by Danny Lyon
In 1966 and 1967, Danny Lyon documented the demolition of hundreds of buildings to make way for the construction of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. In addition to photographing the buildings and...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Weegee, [Inflating Santa Claus for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York], November 21, 1940 (3076.1993) Weegee, [Female cab driver with Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade clown, New York], ca....
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Happy New Year!
Dan Weiner, New Year’s Eve, Times Square, New York City, 1951 (979.1974) Leon Levinstein, Times Square, New York City, New Year’s Night, 1970 (2011.53.43) Tagged: Dan Weiner, Leon Levinstein, New...
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Using Central Park
Over the years Central Park has been used for many purposes: Bruce Davidson, Central Park, New York City, 1960 (2011.2005) Ernst Haas, Who has the floor? (Central Park), 1972 (79.1976) Tod Papageorge,...
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Happy Centennial, Grand Central!
Grand Central Station, despite all the opposition it received from its owner, The Penn Central Railroad, is and will remain a landmark in New York. Larry Silver, Grand Central Station, New York, 1952...
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Seen on the Street
Leon Levinstein, [Women, India], ca. 1979 (2008.94.5) Leon Levinstein, [Man on bicycle] (2010.113.10) Leon Levinstein, St. Marks Place, 1968 (2011.53.5) Leon Levinstein, Times Square, 1985...
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Taking a Break from the Summer Heat
The open fire hydrant is a cultural phenomenon that photographers have been capturing for over seventy years. From Harlem to Hoboken, these iconic images from the ICP collection illustrate the joy of...
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September 11
Steven Siegel, Oz #2, 1975 (2006.30.43) Browse ICP’s complete September 11 Archive here. See a selection of Jeff Mermelstein‘s powerful September 11 images here. Tagged: New York City, September 11...
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The Art of Spontaneity
For sixty years, documentary photographer George S. Zimbel (b. 1929) has been fascinated with capturing spontaneous moments. “Unique among the visual arts,” he writes, “is the ability of a...
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Don’t Forget to Vote
Charles Moore, [Voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery], 1965 (176.1991) Today is election day in the United States. If you are eligible, don’t forget to vote. John Albert, [Voter registration...
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Welcome Mayor de Blasio!
Today Bill de Blasio becomes the 109th mayor of New York City. Here’s a look back at some of the city’s previous mayors: Unidentified Artist, Mayor Gaynor at his Desk, January 3, 1910 (233.2001)...
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“Cold Weather Picture”
Weegee, Cold Weather Picture, March 8, 1941 (16232.1993) “Thousands of automobiles parked overnight were found like this by their owners Saturday morning.” PM, March 9, 1941 Many folks in the...
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The Joys of Commuting
Lucien Aigner, Last express to the suburbs, Paris, 1934 (277.1982) Gordon Parks, Commuters, New York City, 1946 (152.1983) Dan Weiner, Commuters, Forest Park, Illinois, 1953 (138.1992) Charles Pratt,...
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It’s Sheep We’re up Against
In honor of the twenty-eighth anniversary of the release of the Housemartins’ second single, “Sheep,” here’s a selection of images of these unquestioning and agreeable animals. Chris Buck, Dolly, 1997...
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In the Street
Helen Levitt, New York, 1972 (19.1998)Helen Levitt, New York, 1959 (645.1987) Helen Levitt, New York, 1972 (313.1984) Helen Levitt, New York, 1972 (146.1997) Helen Levitt’s street photography...
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Leon Levinstein: The Indiscriminate Eye
When learning about the work of a new photographer, more often than not I have some piece of biography that helps me place the photographs in context. In the case of Leon Levinstein, I got to know him...
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