Untitled (Man with Glasses and Bow Tie), 1969 © Vivian Maier, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

On view through May 26, 2012

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York City, NY

When street photographer Vivian Maier passed away in 2009, she left behind over 120,000 negatives and 2,000 undeveloped rolls of film. Maier made hundreds of thousands of distinguished street photographs throughout New York City and Chicago during her life. Now, three years later, many of her undeveloped rolls of film have been processed and printed.

Vivian Maier: Unseen Images features a selection of the newly developed film, shot in the 1960s and 1970s. Thirty-five prints of the recently discovered work are debuting at the Steven Kasher Gallery.

The new book, Vivian Maier: Street Photographs, edited by John Maloof, is excerpted in Aperture’s latest issue, 207.

Anthony Esposito, Accused “Cop Killer,” 1941, © Weegee/International Center of Photography

Exhibition on view:
January 20–September 2, 2012

International Center of Photography
1133 Ave of the Americas
New York, NY
(212) 857-0000

Weegee’s nocturnal scenes of urban life, crime, and death will be on display at the International Center for Photography in an exhibition titled, Murder Is My Business, arranged by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis.

An extensive collection of Weegee’s photographs from 1935–1946 of blood-spattered New York crime scenes with haunting imagery of sheet-covered bodies and felons in handcuffs will be on view. Complimenting the show is an environmental replica of Weegee’s actual apartment and recreations of past exhibitions.

Weegee freelanced for a variety of New York newspapers and photo agencies. Tuning in to police radio bands, he would arrive to crime scenes minutes after incidents occurred. Fashioning a darkroom out of his car trunk, the grittiness of Weegee’s aesthetic and obsession with photojournalism is evident when observing his work.

Weegee’s images have been published in numerous issues of Aperture magazine, most recently in issue 201.

In conjunction with this exhibition, ICP will be offering “Weegee’s Night Walks” around New York City. More information can be found here.

Additionally, WEEGEE: Naked City is being exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery through February 25.

Panthers listen to Huey P. Newton give a radio talk during Bobby Seale’s trial, New Haven, May 1970 by Stephen Shames

Photographer Stephen Shames‘ photographs taken during the height of the struggle for civil rights in America, will be on view in two upcoming exhibitions in Chicago and New York.

The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History, an Aperture exhibition will travel to The Dusable Museum of African American History in Chicago, presenting Shames’ behind-the-scenes photographs of the Black Panther Party. The exhibition opens this week and will include 48 of Shame’s photographs as well as Black Panther artifacts from the museum’s archive. This exhibition accompanies Shames’ monograph The Black Panthers (Aperture, 2006).

In addition nine of Shames’ images of Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton are included in a group show titled, Between the Bricks and the Blood: Transgressive Typologies currently up at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York.

The Black Panthers: Making Sense Of History
April 23 – August 6, 2010
Dusable Museum of African American History
750 East 56th Place
Chicago, Illinois
(410) 455-2232

Between The Bricks and The Blood
Transgressive Typologies
April 15 – May 8, 2010
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 W 23rd St,
New York, Ny, 10011

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Catch the world premiere of Disfarmer, a work by Dan Hurlin at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Inspired by the career of Mike Disfarmer, the only portrait photographer in a small Arkansas town, the performance combines Hurlin’s table-top puppetry with music by Dan Moses Schreier and text by Sally Oswald. Spanning from 1917-1946, Disfarmer’s career was relatively unknown until the 1970s when over 4,000 of his photographs were discovered. His work gained esteem for both its visual qualities and his methods with glass plate photography long after this technology was surpassed. Through a unique visceral experience, the piece pays homage to Disfarmer’s achievements in his portraitist career.

Click here to watch a behind-the-scenes video from St. Ann’s Warehouse.

Panel Discussion: The Discovery of Mike Disfarmer
Wednesday, January 28, 2009  9:30 p.m.
Moderator Philip Gefter with Julia Scully, Brian Wallis, & Peter Miller

Panel Discussion: Disfarmer in the World
Thursday, January 29, 2009  9:30 p.m.
Moderator David Serlin with David Deitcher, Steven Kasher, & Bruno Ceschel

Disfarmer
January 27-February 8, 2009
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water Street, Brooklyn
(718) 254-8779