Jacob DESCHIN
32 articles
CONTRAST IN STYLES; Musicians Viewed by Six Photographers
By Jacob DESCHIN
THREE photographers in search of a way to interpret Yehudi Menuhin arrive at three separate answers in pictures exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West Fiftythird Street, through Feb. 23, under the heading, "Music and Musicians."
New York Times • page X15 • 740 words
THE EXACT INSTANT'; News Photography Show At Modern Museum
By Jacob DESCHIN
AN exhibition of 100 years of news and documentary photography, "The Exact Instant," which includes examples from the daguerreotypes of the Eighteen Forties to the best pictures in yesterday's newspaper, opened last week at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Times • page X13 • 654 words
INDIVIDUAL STYLES; Exhibit Contrasts Work Of Four Photographers
By Jacob DESCHIN
FOUR present-day photographers, with little in common except the medium they use, are represented in a new show arranged by Edward Steichen which opened last week at the Museum of Modern Art and will continue until Sept. 25.
New York Times • page X10 • 776 words
OLD PRINTS AT MUSEUM; Steichen Shows Pictures From Copyright Files Wide Variety EXHIBITIONS CASE FOR LEICA NEW VARIGAM SURFACES "WHICH HAND, RIGHT OR LEFT?"
By Jacob DESCHIN
ALTHOUGH primarily interesting as historical and documentary illustrations of a former way of life in America, the prints in the exhibition of "Forgotten Photographers" at the Museum of Modern Art through Oct. 14 also have photographic significance.
New York Times • page 63 • 828 words
IN SEARCH OF TRUTH; New Show Covers Work Of Six Photographers
By Jacob DESCHIN
SIX photographers in quest of truth present their findings, each in his own way, in the first of a serise of exhibitions which opened last week in the Auditorium Gallery of the Museum of Modern Art. The show will continue through Aug. 17.
New York Times • page X13 • 713 words
SECOND IN A SERIES; Museum Exhibit Connects Photography and Truth
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE impact of the commonplace when seen through the eyes of the careful observer is demonstrated in "Diogenes With a Camera II," the second in a series of shows which opened last week at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Times • page X15 • 690 words
EUROPEAN PICTURES; Modern Museum Presents Collection by Steichen
By Jacob DESCHIN
OF the seventy-nine photographers from eleven countries represented in the show. "Post-War European Photography," which opened last week in the Auditorium Gallery of the Museum of Modern Art, only a small handful are known in this country. The pictures, which will hang through Aug. 2, therefore provide the first large group indication of what European photographers have been doing in the last few years.
New York Times • page X13 • 1,001 words
STEICHEN'S PROJECTS; He Plans Several Shows At Modern Museum
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE opening of a new photographic show next month at the Museum of Modern Art will signalize the resumption of regular exhibition activity there, Edward Steichen, director of the museum's Department of Photography, announced last week.
New York Times • page X21 • 627 words
FOUR-MAN EXHIBITION; Steichen Opens Fourth 'Diogenes' Show Experimental Shot STEREO MEETING HOME MOVIES BOOKLET
By Jacob DESCHIN
PHOTOGRAPHY can reveal what the eye cannot see, show new aspects of a familiar world, document the look and meaning of an event, interpret the mood and atmosphere of a place.
New York Times • page X21 • 660 words
EXHIBITION
Language of the Wall: Parisian Graffiti Photographed by Brassaï
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28 October 1956
BRASSAI PICTURES; Scribblings on Walls Subject of New Show
By Jacob DESCHIN
PHOTOGRAPHERS looking for a change of pace in their personal picture-taking will find inspiration in the show by Brassai, the French photographer, which opened last week at the Museum of Modern Art, and which will run through ...
New York Times • page 135 • 685 words
Retrospectives by Capa And Cartier-Bresson
By Jacob DESCHIN
IT is more than mere coincidence that the retrospective exhibitions of both Henri Cartier-Bresson and the late Robert Capa opened here last week. Although dealing with different materials -- Mr. Capa with five wars in eighteen years, Mr. CartierBresson with the broad rang of journalistic activity -- some comparisons can be made.
New York Times • page X20 • 706 words
PHOTO CENTER; New Princeton Gallery To Show, Sell Prints
By Jacob DESCHIN
ESTABLISHMENT of "Gallery 100," a photography and art center in Princeton, N.J., was announced last week by Sol Libsohn, photographer and teacher and one of the center's founders. The center is the latest and most ambitious step in the current movement to promote the sale of photographs as works of art.
New York Times • page X23 • 787 words
STEICHEN CENTER; Museum Reveals Plans As His Show Opens
By Jacob DESCHIN
ANNOUNCEMENT of plans to establish the Edward Steichen Photography Center in the proposed expansion of the Museum of Modern Art was made last week at a dinner honoring Mr. Steichen on his eighty-second birthday.
New York Times • page X20 • 703 words
DIOGENES IS BACK; Steichen Resumes Series With Three-Man Show
By Jacob DESCHIN
RESUMING an exhibit series he started in 1952 and last presented in 1956, Edward Steichen last week offered the fifth in the series, "Diogenes With a Camera V," in the auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art, where it will continue through Nov. 12.
New York Times • page X14 • 711 words
PHOTO FAIR IN MARCH; Revived Exhibit to Be Held at Armory
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE annual consumer photography show which ran continuously for fourteen years and was temporarily suspended last year, will reopen under a new name and new management on March 24.
New York Times • page 92 • 695 words
TECHNICAL MANUALS; Equipment and Methods Topics of New Books Adams on Polaroid BRODOVITCH WORKSHOP EXHIBITION
By Jacob DESCHIN
TWO of the most familiar themes of photographic literature, family and candid pictures, are treated again, but better, in two manuals just published. They are Paul Wahl's "The Candid Photographer" and Russ and Betty ...
New York Times • page 135 • 551 words
Exhibit Record At IPEX
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE International Photographic Exposition (IPEX), to be held at the coliseum May 1 to 9, has scheduled the longest list of individual and group photography shows ever displayed in this country at one time.
New York Times • page X24 • 625 words
Erwitt's Humor, Or What?
By Jacob DESCHIN
NATURE and social satire are the themes of two current shows here. Both are important and well worth seeing.
New York Times • page X14 • 828 words
'Rapid' Cameras In Shops
By Jacob DESCHIN
CAMERAS and a choice of films geared to the 35mm Rapid System of simplified loading will be offered in the United States this week for the first time. About two million of these cameras have been sold in Europe by 27 German and Japanese manufacturers since the introduction o the system a year ago.
New York Times • page X12 • 712 words
Photography; Invitation to Study of History
By Jacob DESCHIN
WITHIN days of each other, this column has received a review copy of "A Concise History of Photography" (New York: Grosset and Dunlap. ...
New York Times • page 113 • 1,043 words
Photography; Polacolor As An Art Form
By Jacob DESCHIN
POLAROID LAND'S Polacolor photography made its exhibition debut as an art form last week in the Edward Steichen Photography Center at the Museum of Modern Art. The display of the 40 Polacolor prints by Marie Cosindas, Boston artist and photographer, is probably the first instance of a photography show being directly associated with a commercial product.
New York Times • page 146 • 1,524 words
Photography; Training for the Automation Age
By Jacob DESCHIN
AN automatic film-processing machine will take over the work of film development for photo graphy students in a new approach to photographic education introduced by C.B. Neblette, dean of the College of Graphic Arts and Photography at the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology.
New York Times • page 90 • 1,327 words
Exhibit Activity Shows Increase
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE growing availability of gallery space for photography in this city is reflected in an acceleration of the opportunities offered photographers to exhibit their work. In addition to the Photography in the Fine Arts show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the three-man display at the Museum of Modern Art, more than a dozen other current and future shows have been announced. These are listed here.
New York Times • page 105 • 1,549 words
Photography; Looking Back 30 Years
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE contents of the May number of Popular Photography, misnamed the "30th Anniversary Issue," may be likened to the experience of a stroller headed in a given direction but who is soon distracted by side paths that are more alluring.
New York Times • page 126 • 1,165 words
Teenage Winners Display Talent
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE high average of excellence that used to characterize the annual Scholastic Photography Awards in earlier years, but that has been missing in these contests recently, has been recaptured in the 1967 crop of entries. The contest, which
New York Times • page 98 • 1,246 words
Photo Trade Show Opens
By Jacob DESCHIN
A SPECIAL color processing service that increases the speed of Kodak High Speed Ektachrome Film by two and one-half times will be announced here this morning at the opening of the six-day trade show and convention of the Master Photo Dealers' Finishers' Association "Ipex" International.
New York Times • page D34 • 1,358 words
Printing As Art In Show
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE medium is the message, often quite literally, in "Photography as Printmaking," the new exhibition that opened last week at the Museum of Modern Art. It will run through May 26.
New York Times • page D24 • 1,490 words
Surreal Images In Early Photography
By Jacob DESCHIN
LONG before surrealism in art had a name, photography was hinting at the possibilities. About 40 such photographs, many by unknown photographers, are on view through June in "Photographs Before Surrealism" in the Edward Steichen Photography Center of the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Times • page D34 • 1,264 words
Light is Theme Of Group Show
By Jacob DESCHIN
LIGHT considered in the abstract, as an element in the photographic process, not necessarily related to descriptive subject matter, is the theme of an unusual exhibition this month at the Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
New York Times • page D36 • 1,536 words
Pictures Of Lost Movies
By Jacob DESCHIN
THE 130 motion picture stills in the exhibition, "The Lost Film," currently on view in the auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art are the sole visual reminders of 28 films from the 1920's that have disappeared or turned to dust through decomposition.
New York Times • page D37 • 1,298 words
Color Print Show Eventful
By Jacob DESCHIN
IN these days of desperate striving merely for "difference," sensation and effect in color, it is refreshing to see work that depends on personal vision and superior craftsmanship alone to achieve excellence.
New York Times • page D14 • 1,507 words
Photography; Weston Prints In Show-Sale
By Jacob DESCHIN
AN Edward Weston exhibition is again an event in New York City, slightly a decade after his death in Wildcat Hill, Calif., in 1958. If the more than 50 prints on display at the Witkin Gallery, 237 East 60th Street, through this month are not in the truest sense originals, they come as close to that status as has been possible even for some years before Weston died.
New York Times • page D33 • 1,730 words