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The prolific photographer Garry Winogrand, who died in 1984 at 56 in Mexico, left behind thousands of unseen pictures. Among them are these photographs, discovered last year in his archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Only one from the convention is known to have been published: the picture of Kennedy above, accepting the nomination and asking the party for ‘‘your help and your hand and your voice.’’
See more images from this archive in the New York Times.
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The Front Gallery, located in the St. Claude Arts District in New Orleans, has been recently archiving photos from their exhibition openings throughout the years. Currently they are in albums on their Facebook page, so if you missed anything- feel free to catch up.
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New Orleans-based photographer Stephen Hilger’s solo exhibition entitled Hotel California will open to the public on January 4, with a reception for the artist on January 11 at MUSE Center for Photography and the Moving Image in New York. Hotel California and the adjoining blog and Ambassador Archive project (in collaboration with Annie Shaw) charts the evolution of one of Los Angeles’ most eminent structures and its subsequent history: The Ambassador Hotel.
MUSE Center for Photography and the Moving Image is located at 580 Eighth Avenue at 38th Street on the 7th floor. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm.
Images: Wilshire, Stephen Hilger; Carnival (The Ambassador Hotel), Stephen Hilger; The Ambassador Hotel, 1938, Western Publicity and Novelty Co., via Ambassador Archive
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The Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal is a first step in a digitization project that will eventually enable Web visitors to discover large portions of the Museum’’s collections. More than 50,000 photographs of New York, thousands of which have never been available for public viewing.
Browse by Era, Borough or Photographer.
