New York Photo Review
Volume 3 Issue 19
 
May 23 to 29, 2012
The New York Photo Review

Empire State in Water


Trenchant Reviews
plus New York's Most
Comprehensive Photography Listings.


Published by Safe-T-Gallery Inc.

Don Burmeister: Owner/Editor
Barbara Confino: Associate Editor

Where’s Cindy? by Don Burmeister
Making Strange by Barbara Confino
Weegee the Famous by Norman Borden
Fictionalizing History by R. Wayne Parsons
The Top Ten Shows selected by our readers

The List
UPTOWN MANHATTAN and the UPPER WEST SIDE
135th Street
Pete Souza  The Obama Presidency: A Look Behind the Scenes   Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture   515 Malcolm X Blvd   through 6/2/2012.      
GMAD at 25: A History in Words and Images   Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture   515 Malcolm X Blvd   through 8/31/2012.      
125th Street
Ralph Lemon  1856 Cessna Road   The Studio Museum in Harlem   144 W 125th St.   through 5/27/2012.      
Harlem Postcards Spring 2012   The Studio Museum in Harlem   144 W 125th St.   through 5/27/2012.      
110th Street
Sonia Louise Davis  tracing(s) belonging(s)   Aguilar Library, New York Public Library   174 E 110th St.   through 9/30/2012.      
90th Street
Leah Oates / Maria Passarotti  Recent Photographs   Susan Eley Fine Art   46 W 90th St. (2nd Fl)   through 6/3/2012.      
79th Street
Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies   American Museum of Natural History   200 Central Park West   through 6/24/2012.      
77th Street
Camilo Jose Vergara  Harlem: The People (1st Rotation)   New-York Historical Society   170 Central Park West   through 6/10/2012.      
66th Street
Patrick Harbron  Rock and Roll Icons   New York Public Library for the Performing Arts   40 Lincoln Center Plaza   through 8/10/2012.      

UPPER EAST SIDE
103rd Street
Neil Goldberg  Stories the City Tells Itself   Museum of the City of New York   1220 Fifth Ave.   through 6/19/2012.      
92nd Street
Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex   Jewish Museum   1109 Fifth Ave.   through 6/30/2012.      
89th Street
Francesca Woodman    Guggenheim Museum   1071 Fifth Ave.   through 6/13/2012.      
86th Street
Heinrich Kuehn  Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Stieglitz and Steichen   Neue Galerie   1048 Fifth Ave.   through 8/27/2012.      
82nd Street
Heinrich Kuehn  Heinrich Kuehn and the Photo-Secession: Selected Works   Hans P. Kraus Jr.   962 Park Ave.   5/23/2012 through 6/29/2012.      
Spies in the House of Art Photography, Film and Video   Metropolitan Museum of Art   1000 Fifth Ave.   through 8/26/2012.      
Naked before the Camera   Metropolitan Museum of Art   1000 Fifth Ave.   through 9/9/2012.      
77th Street
Photography Is   Higher Pictures   980 Madison Ave.   through 5/26/2012.      
75th Street
Roger Mayne    Gitterman Gallery   170 E 75th St.   through 7/21/2012.      
Whitney Biennial   Whitney Museum of American Art   945 Madison Ave.   through 5/27/2012.      
62nd Street
Delpire & Cie   The Gallery at Hermes   691 Madison Ave.   through 7/19/2012.      

MIDTOWN
59th Street
Pratt Digital Print Gallery   Decoration & Design Building   222 E 59th St. (Ste 110)   through 6/1/2013.      
Moving Walls 19   Open Society Institute   400 W 59th St.   through 6/30/2012.      
58th Street
August Sander    Edwynn Houk   745 Fifth Ave. (4th Fl)   through 5/26/2012.      
57th Street
Hugo Brehme  Eternal Mexico   Throckmorton   145 E 57th St. (3rd Fl)   through 6/9/2012.      
Sarah Moon  Now and Then   Howard Greenberg   41 E 57th St. (14th Fl)   through 6/16/2012.      
Josef Hoflehner  Into the Calm   Bonni Benrubi   41 E 57th St. (13th Fl)   through 7/6/2012.      
Evgeny Mokhorev    Nailya Alexander   41 E 57th St. (7th Fl)   through 6/9/2012.      
A Tribute to Robert Delpire: Robert Frank, Lee Freidlander, Josef Koudelka, Duane Michals and Paolo Roversi   Pace/Macgill   32 E 57th St. (9th Fl)   through 6/16/2012.      
Natalia Arias  No Permanent, No Perpetual   Nohra Haime   730 Fifth Ave. (7th Fl)   through 6/14/2012.      
Denis Darzacq  Act - Meditations on the Disabled Body   Laurence Miller   20 W 57th St (3rd Fl)   through 6/15/2012.      
Oraien Catledge  Cabbage Town   Robert Anderson Gallery   24 W 57th St. (5th Fl)   through 5/26/2012.      
53rd Street
Cindy Sherman    The Museum of Modern Art   11 W 53rd St.   through 6/11/2012.      
Taryn Simon  A Living Man Declared Dead and other Chapters   The Museum of Modern Art   11 W 53rd St.   through 9/3/2012.      
The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook   The Museum of Modern Art   11 W 53rd St.   through 4/29/2013.      
46th Street
John Milisenda  The Lower East Side during the 1960’s   Grand Central Library   135 East 46th St.   through 6/20/2012.      
43rd Street
Weegee  Murder is my Business   International Center of Photography   1133 Ave of the Americas   through 9/2/2012.      
42nd Street
Escape Route   Port Authority Bus Terminal   625 8th Ave (2nd Fl)   through 6/1/2012.      
40th Street
Jan Staller  More than a Passing Glance - Color Photographs by Jan Staller   Mid-Manhattan Library   40th St. and 5th Ave. (3rd Fl)   through 8/22/2012.      
39th Street
Marissa Soroudi  Show Girls   New York Center of Photography and the Moving Image   580 Eighth Ave. (7th Fl)   through 6/2/2012.      
37th Street
A Camera Darkly   Camera Club of New York   336 W 37th St. (2nd Fl)   through 6/23/2012.      

CHELSEA
27th Street
Jeff Robb  Thought Experiments   Witzenhausen Gallery   547 W 27th St. (5th Fl)   through 5/31/2012.      
Delpire & Co Exhibition   Aperture   547 W 27th St. (4th Fl)   through 7/29/2012.      
26th Street
Arno Rafael Minkkinen  Performing for the Camera: Forty Years of Self Portraits   Barry Friedman   515 W 26th St.   through 6/29/2012.      
Julia Fullerton-Battan    Jenkins Johnson Gallery   521 W 26th St. (5th Fl)   through 6/30/2012.      
Susan Gamble / Michael Wenyon  A Universe Held Up for Inspection   Magnan Metz Gallery   521 W 26th St.   through 5/25/2012.      
Rotimi Fani-Kayode  Nothing to Lose   The Walther Collection Project Space NY   526 W 26th St. (7th Fl)   through 7/28/2012.      
Taona Sonakul  Foto Constructs   Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts   526 W 26th St. (6th Fl)   through 6/8/2012.      
Ofri Cnaani  Special Effects   Andrea Meislin   526 W 26th St. (2nd Fl)   through 6/2/2012.      
Martha Rosler  Cuba, January 1981   Mitchell-Innes & Nash   534 W 26th St.   through 6/26/2012.      
Open::Closed   601Artspace   601 W 26th St. (17th Fl)   through 9/29/2012.      
25th Street
Matthew Brandt    Yossi Milo Gallery   245 Tenth Ave (Ground Fl)   5/24/2012 through 6/30/2012.      
Bruno Cals  Horizons   1500 Gallery   511 W 25th St. (6th Fl)   through 9/28/2012.      
Maciek Jasik  Bypassing the Rational   Daniel Cooney   511 W 25th St. (5th Fl)   through 6/29/2012.      
Joni Sternbach  Surfland, Revisited 2006-2011   Rick Wester Fine Art   511 W 25th St. (2nd Fl)   through 6/23/2012.      
Photography 2012   New Century Artists   530 W 25th St. (4th Fl)   through 6/2/2012.      
Fred Stein  Paris/New York   Robert Mann Gallery   210 Eleventh Ave. (10th Fl)   through 6/30/2012.      
24th Street
Cindy Sherman    Metro Pictures   519 W 24th St. (Ground Fl)   through 6/9/2012.      
Constantin Brancusi  Brancusi: The Photographs   Bruce Silverstein   535 W 24th St. (Ground Fl)   through 6/23/2012.      
Nick Brandt  On This Earth, A Shadow Falls   Hasted Kraeutler   537 W 24th St.   through 6/9/2012.      
23rd Street
Chip Simone    Steven Kasher Gallery   521 W 23rd St.   through 5/26/2012.      
Vivian Maier  Unseen Images   Steven Kasher Gallery   521 W 23rd St.   through 5/26/2012.      
Evelyn Hofer    Danziger Projects   527 W 23rd St. (Ground Floor)   through 6/22/2012.      
22nd Street
Thomas Demand    Matthew Marks   522 W 22nd St.   through 6/23/2012.      
Carnal Knowledge: Sex + Philosophy   Leslie Tonkonow   535 W 22nd St. (6th Fl)   through 6/30/2012.      
Lisa Kereszi  The Party’s Over   Yancey Richardson Gallery   535 W 22nd St. (3rd Fl)   5/24/2012 through 7/2/2012.      
Gilbert & George  London Pictures   Sonnabend   536 W 22nd St. (Ground Fl)   through 6/23/2012.      
21st Street
Richard Avedon  Murals and Portraits   Gagosian   522 W 21st St.   through 7/6/2012.      
20th Street
Anne Collier    Anton Kern   532 W 20th St.   through 6/12/2012.      
17th Street
Exhibition in Conjunction with GB Agency, Paris   Murray Guy   453 W 17th St. (2nd Fl)   through 6/30/2012.      

LOWER MANHATTAN - EAST of BROADWAY
9th Street
Home   Umbrella Arts   314 E 9th St.   through 5/26/2012.      
Stanton St.
David Benjamin Sherry  Astral Desert   Salon 94 Bowery   243 Bowery   through 6/2/2012.      
David Benjamin Sherry  Astral Desert   Salon 94 Freemans   1 Freeman Alley   through 6/2/2012.      
Jonathan Alpeyrie  WW II Veterans   Anastasia Photo   166 Orchard St.   through 5/31/2012.      
Rivington St.
Hannah Whitaker  The Use of Noise   Thierry Goldberg Projects   103 Norfolk St   through 6/3/2012.      
Mike Sinclair  Public Assembly   Jen Bekman Gallery   6 Spring St.   through 6/24/2012.      
Delancey St.
Brandon Herman    Envoy Gallery   131 Chrystie St.   through 6/17/2012.      
Ryan McGinley  Grids   Team Gallery   47 Wooster St.   through 6/2/2012.      
Broome St.
Brian Duffy  Duffy   Clic Bookstore and Gallery   255 Centre St.   through 6/3/2012.      

9/11 A Uniform Response   The New York City Police Museum   100 Old Slip   through 6/1/2012.      

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao / Sylvia Plachy  Widely Different   Seaport Museum   12 Fulton St.   through 6/1/2012.      
Edward Burtynsky  Shipbreaking   Seaport Museum   12 Fulton St.   through 6/1/2012.      
Occupy Wall Street: A Photographic Document   Seaport Museum   12 Fulton St.   through 6/1/2012.      

LOWER MANHATTAN - BROADWAY & WEST
11st Street
Todd Burris    Robin Rice Gallery   325 W 11th St.   through 6/17/2012.      
3rd Street
Michael von Graffenried  35 MM   Leica   670 Broadway (5th Fl)   through 6/2/2012.      
Prince St.
Rolling Stones 50 Years in Photography   Morrison Hotel Gallery - Soho   124 Prince St.   through 5/31/2012.      
Alex Harsley  Fifty Years of Fine Art Images   June Kelly Gallery   166 Mercer St.   through 6/19/2012.      
Spring St.
Lillian Bassman  Lingerie   Staley-Wise   560 Broadway (3rd Fl)   through 5/26/2012.      
Laurent Zylberman  A Journey in Tibet   Sous les Etoiles   560 Broadway (2nd Fl)   through 5/31/2012.      
Broome St.
Ryan McGinley  Animals   Team Gallery   83 Grand St.   through 6/2/2012.      
The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront   Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art   26 Wooster St.   through 7/7/2012.      
Mary Ellen Carroll  Federal, State, County and City (California Dreamin’)   Third Streaming   10 Greene St.   through 5/26/2012.      
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Rose   Artists Space   38 Greene St. (3rd Fl)   through 5/27/2012.      
Grand St.
Malick Sidibe  Malick Sidibé Solo Show!   agnès b   50 Howard St.   through 6/3/2012.      
Canal St.
Momentum   Impossible Project Space   425 Broadway (5th Fl)   through 6/26/2012.      
White St.
Ruth Gruber  Photographs as Witness, 1944-47   Soho Photo   15 White St.   through 6/2/2012.      
R. Wayne Parsons  Playing with Bones   Soho Photo   15 White St.   through 6/2/2012.      
David Monderer  Holdouts   Soho Photo   15 White St.   through 6/2/2012.      
Bowling Green
Time Exposures: Picturing a History of Isleta Pueblo in the 19th Century   National Museum of the American Indian   One Bowling Green   through 6/10/2012.      

WILLIAMSBURG and BEYOND
Steven Mallon  The Reefing of USS Redford   Front Room Gallery   147 Roebling St.   through 6/17/2012.      

DUMBO
Anne Ginsburgh Hofkin    A.I.R. Gallery   111 Front St. (2nd Fl)   5/24/2012 through 6/17/2012.      
Rania Matar  A Girl and her Room   Umbrage   111 Front St. (2nd Fl)   through 7/14/2012.      
Liberty and Justice (for All)   VII Photo   28 Jay St.   through 6/8/2012.      

CENTRAL BROOKLYN
150th Anniversary Archive Exhibition   Brooklyn Academy of Music   Lobby, Peter Jay Sharp Bld. (30 Lafayette Ave.)   through 8/30/2012.      

BRONX
Nina Berman  Bronx Gardens   Bronx Documentary Center   614 Courtlandt Ave.   through 7/1/2012.      
A Landmark Pavilion at Orchard Beach - Past, Present and Future   Bronx Library Center   310 East Kingsbridge Road   through 6/30/2012.      

STATEN ISLAND
Phillip Sanders  Embarking   St. George Library Center   5 Central Ave.   through 6/27/2012.      
Forclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis   Alice Austen House Museum   2 Hylan Blvd.   through 6/8/2012.