June 1

Robert Capa: In Love and War

One of the most famous and admired of all photographers, Robert Capa hailed from Hungary, but there are few for whom the designation "citizen of the world" would more appropriately apply. Known for his legendary love affairs and personal flamboyance, Capa, as Anne Makepeace's perceptive film demonstrates, was an enormous influence on other photographers. In Love and War offers a fascinating portrait of the man, as well as an important appreciation of the artist.

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June 1

Les Annees declic / Le Retour

Raymond Depardon, a legend of contemporary photojournalism as well as one of France's most important documentary filmmakers, has shot everyone from African rebels to presidential candidates. In Les Années déclic (The Declic Years, a pun on the sound of a camera shutter), Depardon reflects on his life and his travels, and how experiencing so much of the world through a camera lens has shaped his perception.

A rarely screened classic by one of the century's master photographers, Cartier-Bresson's Le Retour (The Return) documents the return to Germany of thousands of "displaced persons," both POWs and other kinds of detainees. Made for the American Office of War Information, the film captures both the poignancy and at times the tragedy of common people trying to make sense of their lives in a new, liberated Europe.

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June 1

The Magnum Story III: Close to the Edge

The Magnum Story III: Close to the Edge looks at the group's fortunes as it moves into the '80s, a decade that saw a steep decline in the magazine market and hence in the fortunes of photojournalists. The film examines the inner workings of the group and also follows some Magnum photographers to China to capture the growing student uprising of spring 1989, events that led eventually to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. Stuart Franklin's extraordinary photograph of a lone Chinese demonstrator facing down a tank remains one of the 20th century's most haunting images.

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June 1

Fata Morgana

(1970) Literally, a mirage, and Herzog films plenty in this plotless but utterly hypnotic view of the Sahara. "Extraordinary...Three sections: an unpeopled, beautiful wasteland; signs of human wreckage; and the third showing wretched vestiges of life. Totally imaginative." - David Thomson. "Brilliantly original, utterly haunting." - Tony Rayns, Time Out (London).

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June 1

Lessons Of Darkness

(1992) The Fires of Kuwait, as Herzog's camera alternately joins fire fighters attacking well-head flames or floats above the devastation, like an alien floating above "a strange planet on which only bacteria, scorpions, and cockroaches can survive." "An evocation of hell on earth. Herzog's own hushed, awestruck voice intones the poetic narration, while the likes of Wagner, Mahler, Verdi and Pärt are enlisted to furnish an epic, elegiac musical backdrop." - Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London). "A masterpiece." - J. Hoberman.

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May 30 - July 27

Group Show - Apocalypse: Contemporary Visions

The exhibition concerns the notion that we share a collective angst, a sort of shared psychological burden that is present as a cumulative effect of all the threatening events occurring in the world. Featuring Magnum's Jonas Bendiksen, Trent Parke, Dennis Stock, among others.

Opening reception: May 30, 6pm - 8pm

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May 25 - August 31

David Hurn - Here There and Everywhere

The Morrison Hotel Gallery will feature some of the most iconic photographs ever taken of the Beatles. This special exhibition includes exclusive, never-before-seen prints and highlights the works of Magnum's David Hurn together with legendary rock 'n' roll photographers Jim Marshall, Roland Scherman and Robert Whitaker.

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May 10 - September 9

Chim: Photographs by David Seymour

David Seymour, known professionally as "Chim," was a co-founder of Magnum Photos. The exhibition includes iconic photographs from his UN commissions, a series titled "Orphans of the Greek War," and stunning, little-seen photographs of women munitions factory workers during the Spanish Civil War.

Cocktail Reception: June 22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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May 3 - July 1

Trent Parke - Minutes to Midnight

"The Fate of the world's largest island hangs in the balance..." The exhibition, the result of Trent Parke's two-year road trip around Australia, is a bold fusion of documentary traditions and a radical contemporary imagination. Minutes to Midnight is an intense and darkly beautiful vision of Australia - one man's attempt to find his place within a country vastly different from the one in which he grew up.

Artist Reception: June 10, 2pm - 5pm

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May 4 - June 16

Leonard Freed - A Memorial Retrospective

Leonard Freed, 1929 - 2006, is regarded as one of our country's finest photojournalists. Freed began taking photographs in his twenties while in the Netherlands and became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1972. In Freed's words, "For me, photography has a lot to do with curiosity and wonderment. It's getting excited about little things... It's being a child in a child's world while wandering through it as the adult that we are."

Opening Reception: May 3, 6pm - 8pm

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May 31 - July 1

David Alan Harvey - Living Proof

In 2005 David Alan Harvey began photographing local emcees in the Bronx River Projects as part of an exploration into hip hop. Hip hop, which first began on the streets of the South Bronx in the early 1970s, has traveled the globe, finding a home in every corner of the planet. It is this phenomenon that Harvey has captured - from Hollywood celebs to the local cultures of Spain, France, Gambia, Senegal, South Korea, and Thailand.

Artist Reception: June 14, 7pm - 10pm

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May 17 - August 2

Bruce Davidson - Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65

In 1961 Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders, marking the beginning of his exploration into the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. His journey later included an early Malcolm X rally in Harlem, steel workers in Chicago, a Ku Klux Klan cross burning near Atlanta, migrant farm camps in South Carolina, protest demonstrations in Birmingham, and the heroic Selma march that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Davidson's lyrical images are both poignant and profound as they describe the prevailing mood during the Civil Rights era.

Opening Reception: May 17, 6pm - 8pm
Artist Lecture: May 22, 6:30pm

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May 30 - June 30

Constantine Manos - Greek-American

Constantine Manos shares two bodies of work, one made early in his career and the other much later. Of the black and white photographs in A Greek Portfolio, Manos visits Greece, the land of his ancestors, in a romantic search for the village he heard of so much as a child. In American Color, a more mature Manos makes color photographs of the America which once intrigued him as a strange and exotic place.

Artist Reception: June 20, 5pm - 8pm

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May 21 - June 3

Bruce Davidson - Central Park

The legendary Bruce Davidson has challenged himself in a remarkable new way, taking on the visual and metaphorical scope of Central Park. Davidson's photographic approach to the park's wildlife - human and otherwise - varies in format and in emotional quality. Always compassionate, often idiosyncratic, this work reveals a sublime and at times transcendent vision.

Bruce Davidson is the recipient of the National Arts Club 2007 Gold Medal.

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May 31 - June 24

David Sokosh - Gay 90's

Photographs created between 1990 and 2000, documenting Gay Pride celebrations in New York.

Opening Reception: May 31, 6pm - 8pm

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May 15 - June 9

Group Show - Documenting Personal Vision

Curated by Marilyn Stevenson

Featured Artists: Chana Benjamin, Irit Saidoff Bishburg, Joseph de Paul, Mary Durkee, Fritz Erismann, Janet Glazer, Lauri Levy, Laurie Foster McCoy, Myra Nissim, Maurice Rosenblum, Marilyn Stevenson, Mia Wisnoski

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"Wilfred Zogbaum 1" Green River Cemetery Series. Copyright Marilyn Stevenson

May 3 - June 30

Micha Bar-Am

Micha Bar-Am has been Israel's preeminent photojournalist since 1956. The exhibition, featuring images from the 1950s through the 1990s, includes coverage of the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, as well as portraits of politicians and heroes, revealing the breadth of Bar-Am's career and his commitment to capturing the complexity of Israeli life.

Opening Reception: May 3, 6pm - 8pm

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May 3 - June 30

Thomas Dworzak - M*A*S*H

The 1970s television series M*A*S*H followed a hapless US medical corps stationed in the Korean War. Today, as the US continues to fight in Iraq, doctors, nurses, and medics are working on the front lines to keep their casualties down. Thomas Dworzak was with them - embedded with the 44th Medcoms 50th and 150th Medical Companies in Iraq over several periods in 2005.

Artist Reception: June 15, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Through June 23

Astrid Korntheuer - Glor/Loh

The otherwise really very 'nice' nature, as we repeatedly believe, becomes in Astrid Korntheuer's photographs an impassable wall which repels you all the more you engage in her game of color, light and shadow.

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