International Center of Photography

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• Name — International Center of Photography • Type — Art museum • Established — 1974 • Location — 84 Ludlow Street, Manhattan, New York • Director — Bob Jeffrey • Public Transit — Bus: Subway: at Delancey/Essex • Website — www.icp.org

Since its founding in 1974 by Cornell Capa with help from Micha Bar-Am in Willard Straight House, on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, ICP has presented over 500 exhibitions, bringing the work of more than 3,000 photographers and other artists to the public in one-person and group exhibitions and provided various classes and workshops for students.[4]

ICP was founded to keep the legacy of "Concerned Photography" alive. After the untimely deaths of his brother Robert Capa and his colleagues Werner Bischof, Chim (David Seymour), and Dan Weiner in the 1950s, Capa saw the need to keep their humanitarian documentary work in the public eye. In 1966 he founded the International Fund for Concerned Photography. By 1974 the Audubon Society had outgrown its Delano & Aldrich-designed neo-Georgian mansion at 94th Street, in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side and sold to another nonprofit organization. The International Center of Photography was created and moved into the Willard D. Straight House at 1130 Fifth Avenue. In 1985, a satellite facility, ICP Midtown, was created. Plans were also made for redesigning and reconstructing the Midtown location.[5]

• Illustration — ICP location on 6th Avenue and 43rd Street In 2000, ICP sold the Fifth Avenue headquarters for $17.5 million to hedge fund founder Bruce Kovner who returned it to use as a private residence after 48 years as a nonprofit headquarters.[6][7] The expanded galleries at 1133 Sixth Avenue at 43rd Street were designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects for the display of photography and new media. The reopening in the fall of 2000 of the 17000 sqft site, previously used as a photo gallery for Kodak,[8] provided in one location the same amount of gallery space as the two previous sites combined and became the headquarters of ICP's public exhibitions programs, and also housed an expanded store and a café. The expansion of the school of the International Center of Photography in the fall of 2001 created a Midtown campus diagonally across from the museum in the Grace Building at 1114 Sixth Avenue. Designed by the architecture firm Gensler, the 27000 sqft school facility doubled ICP's teaching space and allowed ICP to expand both its programming and community outreach.[9]

• Illustration — ICP at 79 Essex Street In 2014, ICP's board approved a plan to buy a building on the Bowery near the New Museum and relocate there. The center's school remained in Midtown, but was expected to eventually move downtown when the lease ended.[10] The midtown museum closed on 11 January 2015, when its lease ended. The ICP museum at 250 Bowery opened on 23 June 2016.[11] In 2017, ICP signed a deal with Delancey Street Associates to house its museum and school at Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side. In 2019, ICP sold its space at 250 Bowery and purchased its new home at 79 Essex Street at Essex Crossing.[12] In January 2020, ICP opened its new integrated center at 79 Essex Street with the main entrance at 84 Ludlow Street. Designed by architecture firm Gensler, the 40000 sqft building has two entrances, galleries, media labs, classrooms, darkrooms, shooting studios, a shop, café, research library and public event spaces. The new space is the cultural anchor of the $1.9 billion six-acre Essex Crossing development.[13]

Public programs at ICP address issues in photography and its relationship to art, culture, and society and promote the interpretation of ICP's exhibitions and collections. The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks lecture series invites photographers to present their work while sharing ideas and concerns about the medium. Other seminars, symposia, and panel discussions feature artists, critics, scholars, and historians.

Community programs relate to the exhibitions. Programs include interactive tours, family day events, workshops, long-term photography programs in four New York City public schools, summer photography programs in community centers, and a high school internship program designed to promote youth leadership.

• Year — Master of Photography — Applied/Fashion/ Advertising — Art — Photojournalism — Publication — Young Photographer — Lifetime Achievement — Design — Writing • 1985 — André Kertész — Sarah Moon — David Hockney — Alberto Venzago — Photo Poche — Masaaki Mayazawa — No award given — No award given — No award given • 1986 — Hiroshi Hamaya — No award given — Lucas Samaras — Sebastião Salgado — W. Eugene Smith Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs — Anthony Suau — Edward K. Thompson — Alan Richardson • 1987 — Manuel Álvarez Bravo — Jay Maisel — Robert Rauschenberg — Eugene Richards — Robert Frank New York to Nova Scotia — Paul Graham — Harold Edgerton — Hans-Georg Pospischil • 1988 — Alfred Eisenstaedt — Guy Bourdin — Georges Rousse Joel-Peter Witkin — Sebastião Salgado — Richard Misrach Desert Cantos — Marc Trivier — Edwin H. Land — Werner Jeker — Peter Galassi • 1989 — Berenice Abbott — Joyce Tenneson — Arnulf Rainer — James Nachtwey — Josef Koudelka Exiles — Pablo Cabado — Alexander Liberman — Michael Rand — John Szarkowski • 1990 — Yousuf Karsh — Annie Leibovitz — Chuck Close — Jacques Langevin — Sarah Greenough Joel Snyder On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography — Miro Svolik — Gordon Parks — No award given — Max Kozloff • 1991 — Harry Callahan — Herb Ritts — Duane Michals — Antonin Kratochvil — Sylvia Plachy Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour — Walter Dhladhla — Andreas Feininger — Gran Fury — Anna Fárová • 1992 — Lennart Nilsson — Oliviero Toscani — Doug Starn Mike Starn — Christopher Morris — Irving Penn Passage: A Work Record — Klaus Reisinger — Carl Mydans — Gunter Rambow — Alan Trachtenberg • 1993 — Richard Avedon — Geof Kern — Anselm Kiefer — James Nachtwey — Jane Livingston The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963 — Nick Waplington — Stefan Lorant — David Carson — Arthur C. Danto • 1994 — Henri Cartier-Bresson — Bruce Weber — Cindy Sherman — Hans-Jürgen Burkard — Sebastião Salgado Lelia Wanick Salgado Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age — Fazal Sheikh — Howard Chapnick — No award given — Maria Morris Hambourg Pierre Apraxine • 1995 — Eve Arnold — Josef Astor — Clarissa Sligh — Gilles Peress — Eugene Richards Americans We: Photographs and Notes — Sean Doyle — John Szarkowski — Yolanda Cuomo — Deborah Willis • 1996 — Horst P. Horst — Wolfgang Volz — Annette Messager — Lise Sarfati — Gilles Peress The Silence — Eva Leitolf — Cornell Capa — Markus Rasp — A. D. Coleman • 1997 — Helen Levitt — David LaChapelle — Christian Boltanski — Mary Ellen Mark — Chris Riley Douglas Niven The Killing Fields — Lauren Greenfield — Robert Delpire — Chip Kidd — Vicki Goldberg • 1998 — Roy DeCarava — Inez van Lamsweerde Vinoodh Matadin — Sigmar Polke — Steve Hart — Horst Faas Tim Page Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina — Michael Ackerman — Naomi Rosenblum Walter Rosenblum — J. Abbott Miller — Robert Coles • 1999 — Arnold Newman — Julius Shulman — Hiroshi Sugimoto — Alexandra Boulat — Charles Bowden Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future — Nicolai Fuglsig — Harold Evans — Bart Houtman Guido van Lier — John Morris

In 2000, the Cornell Capa Award was introduced, which later merged with the Lifetime Achievement award into the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement, later renamed back to Lifetime Achievement. • Year — Cornell Capa Award — Lifetime Achievement — Applied/Fashion/Advertising — Art — Photojournalism — Publication — Writing — Young Photographer — Trustee Award — Contemporary Photography and New Media — Commercial and Editorial Photography • 2000 — Robert Frank — Nathan Lyons — Hubble Heritage Project — Adam Fuss — James Nachtwey — Manfred Heiting Helmut Newton Work — Andy Grundberg — Zach Gold — No award given — No award given — No award given • 2001 — Mary Ellen Mark — Roger Thérond — Philip-Lorca diCorcia — Andreas Gursky — Luc Delahaye — Jeff L. Rosenheim Douglas Eklund Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology — Eugenia Parry — Elinor Carucci • 2002 — Here is New York: a democracy of photographs — Michael E. Hoffman — RJ Muna — Shirin Neshat — Tyler Hicks — Robert Lebeck Bodo von Dewitz Kiosk: A History of Photojournalism — Ariella Azoulay — Lynsey Addario • 2003 — Marc Riboud — Bernd Becher Hilla Becher — Thái Công — Zarina Bhimji — Alex Majoli — Deirdre O'Callaghan Hide That Can — Sara Stevenson — Jonas Bendiksen • 2004 — Josef Koudelka — William Eggleston — Alison Jackson — Fiona Tan — Simon Norfolk — Doon Arbus Elisabeth Sussman Diane Arbus: Revelations — Susan Sontag — Tomoko Sawada • 2005 — Susan Meiselas — Bruce Weber — Deborah Turbeville — Loretta Lux — The New Yorker — Henryk Ross Łódź Ghetto Album — Vince Aletti — Tomás Munita • 2006 — Don McCullin — Lee Friedlander — Steven Meisel — Thomas Ruff — Yuri Kozyrev — Mary Panzer Christian Caujolle Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 — Geoff Dyer — Ahmet Polat — Getty Images • 2007 — Milton Rogovin — William Klein — No award given — Tracey Moffatt — No award given — Tendance Floue Sommes-Nous? — David Levi Strauss — Ryan McGinley — Karl Lagerfeld • 2008 — No award given — Malick Sidibé — Craig McDean — Edward Burtynsky — Anthony Suau — Taryn Simon An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar — Bill Jay — Mikhael Subotzky — Diane Keaton • 2009 — Letizia Battaglia — Annie Leibovitz — Tim Walker — Rinko Kawauchi — Geert van Kesteren — Aglaia Konrad Desert Cities — Aveek Sen — Lieko Shiga — Gayle G. Greenhill • 2010 — Peter Magubane — John G. Morris — Daniele Tamagni — Lorna Simpson — Reza — Sarah Greenough Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" — Lucy Sante — Raphaël Dallaporta — Gilbert C. Maurer • 2011 — Ruth Gruber — Elliott Erwitt — Viviane Sassen — Abelardo Morell — Adrees Latif — Alec Soth — Gerry Badger — Peter van Agtmael — The Durst Family • 2012 — Ai Weiwei — Daido Moriyama — Maurice Scheltens Liesbeth Abbenes — Stan Douglas — Benjamin Lowy — Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The Worker Photography Movement [1926–1939] — David Campany — Anouk Kruithof — John "Launny" Steffens • 2013 — David GoldblattCCLA — Erik Madigan Heck — Mishka Henner — David Guttenfelder — Cristina de Middel The Afronauts — No award given — Kitra Cahana — Pat Schoenfeld • 2014 — Jürgen SchadebergCCLA — Steven Klein — James Welling — Stephanie Sinclair Jessica Dimmock — Adam Broomberg Oliver Chanarin Holy Bible — Samuel James — No award given • 2015 — Graciela IturbideCCLA — No award given — Larry Fink — Tomas van Houtryve — LaToya Ruby Frazier The Notion of Family — Evgenia Arbugaeva — Getty Images The Lean In Collection — Question Bridge Black Males • 2016 — No award given — David Bailey — No award given — Walid Raad — Zanele Muholi — Matthew Connors Fire in Cairo — Susan Schuppli — No award given — Artur Walther The Walther Collection — Jonathan Harris Gregor Hochmuth Network EffectOPNM • 2017 — Harry Benson — No award given — Sophie Calle — Edmund Clark Crofton Black Negative Publicity — Michael Christopher Brown Libyan Sugar — Michael Famighetti Sarah Lewis Vision & Justice Aperture (no. 223, summer 2016) — Vasantha Yogananthan — No award given — For FreedomsOPNM • 2018 — Bruce Davidson — Alexandra Bell — Samuel Fosso — Amber Bracken — Dayanita Singh Museum Bhavan — Maurice Berger Race Stories New York Times — Natalie Keyssar — Thomson Reuters — Women PhotographOPNM • 2019 — Rosalind Fox Solomon — No award given — Dawoud Bey — No award given — No award given — Zadie Smith Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory The New Yorker — Jess T. Dugan — No award given — No award given • 2020 — Don McCullin — Nadine Ijewere — Dawoud Bey — Hannah Reyes MoralesDPVJ — No award given — No award given — The 1619 Project New York TimesOPNM • 2021 — No award ceremony • 2022 — No award given — Sebastião Salgado — No award given — Sky Hopinka — Acacia Johnson — No award given — No award given — Esther Horvath — Gabriela Hearst — No award given — No award given • 2023 — Ming Smith — No award given — Zora J. MurffDPVJ — Ariella Aïsha AzoulayCWRT — No award given — Joyce Cowin — Poulomi BasuCPNM • 2024 — Shirin Neshat — Lynsey AddarioDPVJ — No award given — Caryl S. Englander — Wendy Red StarCPNM — Renell Medrano • 2025 — Susan Meiselas — Samar Abu Elouf, Nanna Heitmann and Ziv Koren — No award given — Lebohang Kganye — Jack Davison • 2026 — Joel Meyerowitz — Haruka Sakaguchi — Tarrah Krajnak — Collier Schorr

• The Decisive Moment (2007) by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The Library of the International Center of Photography serves more than 6,000 visitors a year. The information and bibliographic resources it provides are used by ICP staff, patrons, and researchers. As of 2008, the Library receives 75 periodicals and serials, and its collection of approximately 20,000 volumes and 2,000 files is available for on-site perusal.[25]

In 2000, George Eastman House (GEH) and ICP launched the GEH–ICP Alliance, whose fundamental aim is to enhance public understanding and appreciation of photography, through exhibitions, publications, research, scholarship, collection sharing, and the joint website Photomuse.org.[26]

International Center of Photography is described in the collections that hold this material as photography museum, school and research center in Manhattan, New York City.

In 2003 the ICP joined with the publisher Steidl of Göttingen, Germany to launch the photography imprint ICP/Steidl.

• "Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video." 2003. • Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes. 2005. Edited by Grant Romer and Brian Wallis.. Received New England Historical Society's Best Book of the Year and Kraszna-Krausz Book Award's Honorable Mention. • "Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video." 2006 • Atta Kim: On Air. 2006. By Atta Kim. Received the Deutsche Börse Prize: Best Photo Book of the Year. • Unknown Weegee. 2006. By Weegee. Received College Art Association Best Book Design, Honorable Mention. • Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography. 2006. Edited by Okwui Enwezor. Received the PHotoEspaña: Best International Photography Book of the Year. • Susan Meiselas: In History. 2008. Received the Rencontres d’Arles 2009 Historical Book Award. • The Mexican Suitcase: The Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives of Capa, Chim, and Taro. 2010. Received the AAM's Frances Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design and the German Photobook 2011 Prize's Gold Award.

• Reflections in a Glass Eye. ICP/Little, Brown, 1999. Edited by Ellen Handy. • "A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial" New York: ICP/Delmonico Books Prestel, 2013. • Roman Vishniac Rediscovered. New York: ICP/Delmonico Books Prestel, 2015. Edited by Maya Benton.

The permanent collection at ICP contains more than 200,000 photographs and related materials from the earliest forms of photography to contemporary work.[23] Since its opening in 1974, ICP has acquired important historical and contemporary images through an acquisitions committee and through donations and bequests from photographers and collectors. The collection spans the history of photography, including daguerrotypes, gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints. The collection is strongest in its holdings of American and European documentary photography of the 1930s to the 1990s. It comprises large bodies of work by W. Eugene Smith, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, the Farm Security Administration photographers, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, James VanDerZee, Louise Ozelle Martin, and Garry Winogrand. More recent purchases have included work by contemporary photographers such as Carrie Mae Weems, Justine Kurland, Katy Grannan, Vik Muniz, and Susan Meiselas. Another component of the collection is a significant group of photographically illustrated magazines, particularly those published between World War I and II, such as Vu, Regards, Picture Post, Lilliput, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung, and Life. Opened in 2015, the International Center of Photography at Mana Contemporary is a 15,000-square-foot space that houses the permanent collection, a media lab, areas for research, and a gallery.[24]