The arrival of Ford’s first car, the detonation of the atomic bomb, and the Wright brothers’ first flight are all seminal moments in history that have been captured on film. In a new exhibit at Howard Greenberg Gallery, Extra! Extra!: News Photographs from 1903-1975, visitors can relive these front-page moments from the 20th century through stunning images shot by photographers both famous and unknown. Untapped New York Insiders get an exclusive look at the new exhibit in an upcoming tour with gallery director Leila Buckjune on October 5th!
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Exhibit Tour of Extra! Extra!
Extra! Extra! showcases more than 60 photographs curated from a collection of nearly 250 prints assembled by Dan Solomon and Howard Greenberg over the past twenty years. The photographs are sourced from respected media outlets such as The New York Times, Time-Life, The San Francisco Examiner, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Many of the works on view represent the earliest known published prints.
Crop lines, grease pencil markings, date stamps, backside captions used by the newspaper, credit information, and other background notes show evidence of photojournalism in action. Viewers will not only see the front of each image but also the back, where markings and notes provide context and transform the images from simple snapshots into complex narratives. You can see, for example, notes contemplating if a 1968 shot by Associated Press’s Eddie Adams of a South Vietnamese officer executing a Viet Cong prisoner was “too violent?”
Visitors will notice famous figures including Muhammad Ali, Neil Armstrong, The Beatles, Amelia Earhart, Medgar Evers, Patricia Hearst, Jackie Robinson, and Babe Ruth. Behind the lens, you might recognize names like Robert Capa and W. Eugene Smith, whose images appear alongside shots taken by photographers with names now lost to history.
Exhibit Tour of “Extra! Extra!”
Get an inside look at the world of news photography in Extra! Extra!: News Photographs from 1903-1975, on view through November 16, 2024.
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