FROM:
SEAPORT MUSEUM NEW
YORK
REQUEST FOR COVERAGE
PRESS PREVIEW OF “ALFRED STIEGLITZ NEW
YORK”
NEW EXHIBITION OF FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER
ALFRED STIEGLITZ’S ICONIC
NEW
YORK CITY
PHOTOGRAPHS
TO PREVIEW AT SEAPORT MUSEUM NEW
YORK
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
14
*****
IMAGES TO BE SHOWN TOGETHER FOR
FIRST
TIME IN NEARLY 80
YEARS
Seaport Museum New
York
President and CEO Mary Pelzer and photography historian and
exhibit
curator Bonnie Yochelson will introduce the groundbreaking,
new
exhibition “Alfred Stieglitz New York”
–
featuring an unprecedented group of legendary early twentieth
century
photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s iconic New York City photographs
–
at a press preview on Tuesday, September 14th from 10:00
AM
– 12:00 PM at Seaport Museum New York, located at 12 Fulton
Street
(between Front Street and Water Street), Manhattan. Light
refreshments
will be served.
Yochelson, a noted photography historian and author, and
Pelzer
will be available to discuss the exhibition that brings together 39
original
Stieglitz images together for the first time in nearly 80 years –
since
Stieglitz displayed them in his own gallery, An American Place, in 1932.
Stieglitz – a
central
figure in the history of photography and modern art and husband of
artist
Georgia O’Keeffe – lived in New York City for most of his life
and
chronicled its dramatic transformation into the archetypal metropolis
of
soaring skyscrapers, subways and electric lights.
The exhibition is
organized
into three galleries. The first evokes the spirit of
291,
Stieglitz’s pioneering gallery, which cemented his reputation as
an
impresario of European modern art. It will include a facsimile of
a
lantern slide show, the first time Stieglitz’s lantern slides have
ever
been exhibited, and prints from 1893 to 1916. The second gallery
presents
portraits taken from the windows of his midtown Manhattan apartment and
gallery
in the 1930s, when Stieglitz re-engaged New York as a subject for
his
photography. The third gallery examines the explosion of imagery of
New
York in popular culture and fine arts, including works by
renowned
photographers Paul Strand, Lewis Hine and Berenice Abbott.
The exhibition opens
to
the public on Wednesday, September 15th and runs through January
10,
2011.
WHAT:
PRESS PREVIEW FOR “ALFRED STIEGLITZ NEW
YORK”
WHEN:
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 14TH
10:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
WHERE:
SEAPORT
MUSEUM
NEW
YORK
12 FULTON STREET (BETWEEN WATER STREET
AND
FRONT STREET), MANHATTAN
Please RSVP to Brady Littlefield at 212-843-9220 or
blittlefield@rubenstein.com
