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Jacob DESCHIN

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EXHIBITION

Music and Musicians

PUBLISHED

21 December 1947

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

EXHIBITION

The Exact Instant

PUBLISHED

13 February 1949

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

EXHIBITION

Realism in Photography

PUBLISHED

31 July 1949

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

EXHIBITION

Forgotten Photographers

PUBLISHED

2 September 1951

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

EXHIBITION

Diogenes with a Camera

PUBLISHED

25 May 1952

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

EXHIBITION

Diogenes with a Camera II

PUBLISHED

30 November 1952

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

EXHIBITION

Postwar European Photography

PUBLISHED

31 May 1953

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

EXHIBITION

Diogenes with a Camera III

PUBLISHED

18 December 1955

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

EXHIBITION

Diogenes with a Camera IV

PUBLISHED

8 April 1956

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

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

EXHIBITION

The Sense of Abstraction

PUBLISHED

7 February 1960

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

EXHIBITION

Photographs for Collectors

PUBLISHED

25 September 1960

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

EXHIBITION

Steichen the Photographer

PUBLISHED

2 April 1961

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

EXHIBITION

Diogenes with a Camera V

PUBLISHED

1 October 1961

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

EXHIBITION

Harry Callahan and Robert Frank

PUBLISHED

28 January 1962

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

EXHIBITION

The Photographer and the American Landscape

PUBLISHED

22 September 1963

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

EXHIBITION

The Photo Essay

PUBLISHED

14 March 1965

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

EXHIBITION

Elliott Erwitt: Improbable Photographs

PUBLISHED

11 July 1965

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

EXHIBITION

Glamour Portraits

PUBLISHED

1 August 1965

'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

EXHIBITION

The Hampton Album

PUBLISHED

23 January 1966

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

EXHIBITION

Marie Cosindas: Polaroid Color Photographs

PUBLISHED

17 April 1966

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

EXHIBITION

Bruce Davidson

PUBLISHED

17 July 1966

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

EXHIBITION

Posters for the Department of Film

PUBLISHED

26 March 1967

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

EXHIBITION

Jerry N. Uelsmann

PUBLISHED

9 April 1967

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

EXHIBITION

Once Invisible

PUBLISHED

18 June 1967

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

EXHIBITION

Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

PUBLISHED

25 February 1968

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

EXHIBITION

Photography as Printmaking

PUBLISHED

24 March 1968

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

EXHIBITION

Photographs Before Surrealism

PUBLISHED

14 April 1968

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

EXHIBITION

Brassaï

PUBLISHED

27 October 1968

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

EXHIBITION

Stills from Lost Films

PUBLISHED

23 March 1969

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

EXHIBITION

Portrait Photographs

PUBLISHED

6 July 1969

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

EXHIBITION

Bill Brandt

PUBLISHED

14 September 1969

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