This tour is free with museum admission.
Join Elisabeth Sherman, ICP's Director of Exhibitions and Senior Curator for a guided walking tour of the exhibition ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019, followed by an introduction to David Seidner: Fragments, 1977-99.
Schedule
5:00 PM
Tour of ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019
5:50–6 PM
Introduction to David Seidner: Fragments, 1977-99
About the Exhibitions
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.
Kicking off ICP's 50th anniversary year, ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019 is a thematic exploration of the many photographic processes that comprise the medium’s history, presenting works from ICP’s deep holdings of photography collected over 50 years since ICP was established in 1974. The exhibition includes work from the 19th century to the present, featuring photographs by well-known artists that ICP has in depth holdings of—such as Robert Capa, Weegee, Francesco Scavullo, and Gerda Taro among many others—as well as lesser-known and vernacular works and recent acquisitions including images by Jess T. Dugan, Nona Faustine, Deana Lawson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Guanyu Xu.
Program Format/Accessibility Information
This is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected].
Elisabeth Sherman is the Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography. Previous to her current role, she was at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions including Time Management Techniques and Dawoud Bey: An American Project (2019–2022), which had a four-venue tour and won the Lucie Award for Photo Museum Exhibition of the Year in 2021. Sherman also oversaw the Whitney’s presentation of Zoe Leonard: Survey, the first large-scale overview of the artist's work in an American museum.
