Join ICP in celebrating the opening of 2024 winter exhibitions and the kick off ICP's 50th anniversary year in 2024! On the evening of Thursday, January 25, visit for special museum admission to see ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019 and David Seidner: Fragments, 1977–99. Both exhibitions and subsequent 50th anniversary programming will highlight how ICP’s evolution parallels that of photography as a medium, as a technology, and as a powerful cultural, political, and social force.
ICP at 50 mines ICP's extensive holdings to present works collected since ICP was established in 1974. The exhibition includes work from the 19th century to the present, featuring photographs by artists including Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, Gordon Parks, Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Susan Meiselas, Robert Mapplethorpe, Samuel Fosso, Mickalene Thomas, Jess T. Dugan, Deana Lawson, and more. The exhibition will also offer insight into the breadth and depth of ICP’s collection with historically critical images and media that include images taken of the surface of the moon by NASA in 1966, as well as activist posters from the 1980s and ‘90s groups ACT UP New York and Gran Fury.
ICP's survey of the work of David Seidner (1957–1999) reintroduces this important and rarely exhibited artist of the 1980s and 1990s whose work has largely faded from view since his passing from AIDS-related illnesses in 1999. Primarily drawn from Seidner's archive, which has been a part of ICP’s collection since 2001, highlights include Seidner’s early fine art photography and fragmented portrait studies, vibrant fashion and editorial photography, images of groundbreaking dancers and choreographers, portraits of well-known contemporary artists and their studios, and works from his final project, abstracted studies of orchids.
This event is free for ICP members.
Exhibition support for ICP at 50 is generously provided by the ICP Exhibitions Committee and the ICP Collections Committee.
Exhibition support for David Seidner is generously provided by the ICP Exhibitions Committee.
