Dear Web visitor,

Welcome to the International Center of Photography!

Whether you visit ICP in person or browse through the images and information on our website, you’ll discover extensive resources representing the full range of the photographic experience.

As an institution embracing all families of photography, ICP continues to expand its focus to include intriguing contemporary work, while maintaining its commitment to more long-held traditional realms such as documentary photography and photojournalism.

Our galleries have a totally new look for this new round of exhibitions. The two exhibitions on view this winter and spring present artists working in photography or photography based media. In today’s cultural environment, the worlds of photography and contemporary art increasingly overlap, and it is not uncommon for those working in a variety of media to incorporate photographs—that they have made, or that they have "appropriated"—into their work. Strolling through The Collections of Barbara Bloom, or curator Okwui Enwezor's Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art—featuring twenty-five gifted contemporary artists—it is immediately clear that photography remains an integral element in many forms across the visual landscape.

Located diagonally across from the Museum (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) the School of the International Center of Photography (1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) has one of the world’s most extensive and best-equipped programs of study, and continues to grow. With more than 400 courses in a curriculum that ranges from digital media and darkroom classes to certificate and masters degree programs, the School serves more than 5,000 students each year—not to mention the lecture series, seminars, symposia, and other complementary activities that make ICP dynamic and unique among photographic institutions.

We invite you to take advantage of all ICP has to offer!

Willis E. Hartshorn,
Ehrenkranz Director