As evident in the work of early masters and contemporary artists on view now in New York, the medium of photography has always been used to document social conditions and the evolution of cities and the environment. Photography exhibitions allow us to travel—both geographically and through time—and give us permission to curiously gaze at others without shame. Take advantage of fascinating glimpses of life through trained eyes at the following galleries, museums and libraries.
After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 - Mon, May 27, 2013
This installation explores various ways in which artists, including Nancy Burson, Filip Dujardin, Joan Fontcuberta, Beate Gütschow, and others, have used digital technology to alter the photographic image from the ...
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light
Museum of Modern Art
Manhattan
Wed, Mar 06, 2013 - Mon, Aug 12, 2013
Bill Brandt is a founding figure in photography’s modernist traditions, and this exhibition represents a major critical reevaluation of his heralded career.
Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present and Future
BLDG 92: Brooklyn Navy Yard Center
Brooklyn
Ongoing
The extraordinary history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is recounted in this original exhibition that interweaves natural, cultural, social, naval and industrial narratives.
The Dream Continues: Photographs of Martin Luther King Murals by Vergara
New-York Historical Society
Manhattan
Ongoing
Continuing its commitment to recognizing the history of Civil Rights in this country, the New-York Historical Society will exhibit approximately thirty photographs by MacArthur Fellow Camilo José Vergara, who has ...
Elevating the Mundane: Photography of Frank Burgel and Jeffrey Ben Berman
New York Open Center Gallery
Manhattan
Fri, May 17, 2013 - Fri, Jun 21, 2013
This exhibition exemplifies the unrestrained potentials of imagination. Through the conduit of the camera's eye, ordinary, everyday objects, many times spotted from the corner of an eye, are transformed into ...
Featured Fan Art of the Month: Paula Layton
The NYC-ARTS community is full of talent and we want to share it. Every Friday we showcase one fan's artwork on Facebook and each month our fans vote for their ...
House Museum and Photography
Alice Austen House Museum
Staten Island
Ongoing
Within this elegant gingerbread cottage is a permanent exhibit of photographs taken by Austen, as well as a resource room where visitors can peruse more than 400 additional Austen images. ...
Jacob Love: States
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Manhattan
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 - Fri, Jun 21, 2013
"STATES," by London based photographer Jacob Love, is a project of landscapes and portraits and a work-in-progress inspired by the utopian scenes in the Jehovah's Witness magazine, The Watchtower.
Joan Semmel: A Lucid Eye
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 - Sun, Jun 09, 2013
Well known for the uncompromising feminist tone of her early work, Joan Semmel has turned her attention over the past decade to the process of image making. Photography has played ...
Photography and the American Civil War
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan
Tue, Apr 02, 2013 - Mon, Sep 02, 2013
More than 200 of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for this landmark exhibition. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan's celebrated ...
Robert Dutesco: The Wild Horses of Sable Island
Dutesco Art Gallery
Manhattan
Ongoing
Located in the Atlantic Ocean just southeast of Nova Scotia, Sable Island is a crescent shaped sandbar renowned for its population of wild horses. Romanian-born Dutesco made the first of ...
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
International Center of Photography
Manhattan
Fri, Jan 18, 2013 - Sun, May 05, 2013
Vishniac (1897–1990) created the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars.
Street
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Manhattan
Tue, Mar 05, 2013 - Mon, May 27, 2013
"Street," a new video by the British-born artist James Nares, forms the centerpiece of this exhibition. Accompanying "Street" in its New York premiere are two galleries of objects from the ...
We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933–1956 by Chim
International Center of Photography
Manhattan
Fri, Jan 18, 2013 - Sun, May 05, 2013
This retrospective exhibition traces the development of Chim's career as an intellectually engaged photojournalist, placing his life and work in the broader context of 1930s–50s photography and European politics.