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Email PageDeath War Protest Love: An Important Collection of Photojournalism
November 15, 2007- December 22, 2007
Reception: November 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 W 23rd StThis exhibition continues Steven Kasher Gallery’s exploration of the intersections of photography with histories of struggle and empowerment. War Death Protest Love: An Important Collection of Photojournalism brings together many of the major icons of 20th Century photojournalism -- juxtaposed with their lesser-known variants. The show will feature over 120 graphic vintage press prints with their original captions. The attempt is to reproduce the overwhelming emotional impact of the photographic archive we carry in our heads. And to disrupt our collective memories by showing the images from another perspective.
The exhibition will feature series of photographs of (partial list):
| The murder of Malcolm X | Charles Manson on trial |
| The shooting of George Wallace | The terrorist activities of the Ku Klux Klan |
| Al Capone with his family | General Loan executing a Vietcong suspect |
| The death of John Dillinger | Marilyn Monroe and the white dress |
| Hitler with Mussolini | The life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr |
| The explosion of the Hindenburg | Prince Charles and Diana |
| The funeral of Huey Long | The protest self-immolations of Buddhist monks in Vietnam |
The occasion for the exhibition is the discovery of an archive of over 60,000 press prints preserved by photographer Henry Scheafer (1908-2000). From 14 years old, Scheafer worked for the agency Atlantic and Pacific Photos, which was absorbed by Acme Newspictures, which was absorbed by UPI. In the late 1970s, Schaeffer heard that the entire print archive was about to meet its demise in a dumpster. On a mission of historical recovery, he trucked the prints to his home, where they have remained until now.
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