International Center of Photography Library
Photos by Janeen Megloranzo Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company and the Making of a Play by Richard Avedon and the text / edited by Doon Arbus from a series of taped conversations with each of the seven members of the Manhattan Project, recorded between January 11 and September 4, 1971. Designed by Ruth Ansel.… Continue reading Alice in Wonderland
The ICP Library has several reader resources that guests can come and use to find photography books on a particular subject. Some in the past have been female photographers or wartime photography. The newest edition to this series is “Photography of adolescence.” This new resource will provide readers with a general selection about the photography… Continue reading A New Edition to the Library Reader Resources Series
This blog post is written in honor of Zanele Muholi who won the ICP Infinity award for documentary photography and photojournalism earlier this month. Her book, Only Half the Picture is a photo series about Black lesbians. The book contains intimate photos of different women who are all gay. The images are stylistically very… Continue reading Response to Zanele Muholi’s Only Half the Picture
By: Akari Stimler Hokkaido is an island in Japan, and it is also the island where my mother grew up. Hokkaido is located at the north tip of Japan and is close to Russia. I always thought of Hokkaido as different from the rest of Japan because of its open spaces, farming culture and… Continue reading Response to Hokkaido 1971–1976 by Eiji Sakurai
by Akari Stimler and Zoë Gleitsman As teenage girls, this book immediately caught our attention. Even though the photographs were taken when we weren’t born yet, the subject matter and many of the topics discussed are very identifiable and relatable. Greenfield’s photographs are very candid and raw, and they show sides of girls’ lives that… Continue reading Response to Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield
During the month of October, the ICP Library Team has been pitching in to assist their colleagues at ICP@Mana to unpack 4,000 boxes of treasures onto the shelves of their new collection storage room. It is very diverting and rewarding, and sometimes we pulled out the phones to share a glimpse with you. If you… Continue reading With a Little Help for Our Friends
Have you heard any buzz yet about ICP’s forthcoming website? In December the developers asked us to explore the possibility of getting really visual with our library collection, and we jumped at the opportunity. Web art connoisseurs are already really used to seeing beautiful images of art in cultural organizations. We in ICP Library recognize… Continue reading ICP Library’s Book Cover Project
As you may know, I am proud that ICP Library is that it is a laboratory for experimentation, production and performance! 2014 was the fourth year that the ICP/Bard MFA students embedded in the library for a class that is an exuberant exchange of information and inspiration. What I learned is what the MFA artists… Continue reading 2014 Lab Experiments in the ICP Library
Among the very first visitors to the newly constructed ICP Library in 2001 was a new student named Giovanni del Brenna, who spoke most of the languages of his classmates [Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French], and offered to help out in the library as a work-study student while earning his certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary… Continue reading Evolution of Ibidem: Book, Meet your Dummy
About the book The medium is the message in this playful and philosophical trans-media crossover book about smartphones, language, photography and war. Rita Leistner, who is a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York (2000) and has an MA in comparative literature from the University of Toronto (1990), uses the optics of… Continue reading Rita Leistner book launch and screening at ICP Library Nov. 7 6-8pm
Monsters & Madonnas 