New England Photography Exhibits
- Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy Andover — Harry Benson: Four Stories, brings four different kinds of photojournalism into one exhibit. Now through January 29, 2023.
- Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum Waltham — Museum is closed until Feb 9 to install a new exhibit.
- Griffin Museum of Photography Winchester — This small but busy museum is all about photography; multiple exhibitions at multiple sites with rolling schedules. Winter Solstice 2022 features 169 individuals contributing to the show. Now through January 8, 2023.
- MIT Museum Cambridge — To Look and Learn: The Creative Photography Laboratory (CPL) at MIT Under its founding director, Minor White, the CPL became one of the country’s important venues for new photography. White’s vision for CPL was as a laboratory for teaching, not for training professional photographers. Photography served as a vehicle to intensify the students’ sensitivity to their visual environment, interpersonal relationships, and inner being. Opening Oct 2, 2022 and ongoing.
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston — Life Magazine and the Power of Photography is open now through January 16, 2023. Timed ticketing. Also ongoing: Jess T. Dugan: Coupled a group of near-life size Polaroid 20×24 portraits of LGBTQ couples.
- Peabody-Essex Museum (PEM) Salem — Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China now through April 2, 2023
- Photographic Resource Center Cambridge — Hybrid in-person / online programs are coming up this winter and spring: PRC Speaker Series with Wendel A. White, February 7, 2023; and Janelle Lynch, April 27, 2023.
- Portland Museum of Art (PMA) Portland — Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder now through January 15, 2023. This inaugural exhibition of the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection will include a selection from the 600+ image gift to the museum earlier this year.
Photography Organizations
Aperture’s dynamic growth continues into 2023. Their web presence, publishing, print and book sales are worth exploring. Their site is updated regularly and both current and archived reviews, commentary, and images are freely available on a rotating basis.
The Centre for British Photography
A brand-new organization just now getting underway in early January 2023. They are fundraising via print sales at the remarkably low price of £70, though the postal strike may be interfering with deliveries. Supported by the Hyman Foundation. Worth watching to see how it goes.
International Center for Photography (ICP)
The International Center for Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Founded by photojournalist Cornell Capa in 1974 to champion “concerned photography,” ICP is a multi-purpose organization supporting exhibitions, education, public programs at the Center for Visual Culture, a library, and an historic collection of photographs. Located in New York’s Lower East Side at 79 Essex Street. Coming up: Getting Closer: Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben, Executive Director of Magnum Foundation. Monday, December 19, 2022, from 7PM – 8PM online; Tickets: $5.
Magnum celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. Now much more than a photo agency, Magnum publishes an online magazine, runs workshops around the world led by world-class photographers, sales of prints, posters, and books are all part of the Magnum oeuvre today. And, yes, Magnum is still a cooperative run by the photographer-members and staff.
In conjunction with an exhibit at the ICP in New York: “Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum” opening September 30, 2022 through January 9, 2023, Magnum is introducing In Dialogue, a new series of roundtable video recordings bringing Magnum photographers together with writers, curators, editors and other folk to discuss a particular subject or theme in depth in a conversational format. The first In Dialogue features Susan Meiselas, Bieke Depoorter, Olivia Arthur, and Lua Ribiera, moderated by Diane Smyth with support from the British Journal of Photography.
