The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of

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, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City,

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. The organization was founded by

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in 1974. ICP is the host of the Infinity Awards, inaugurated in 1985 "to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries."

History

Since its founding in 1974 by

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. ICP was founded to keep the legacy of "Concerned Photography" alive. After the untimely deaths of his brother

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and his colleagues

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, Chim (David Seymour), and

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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 Fund needed a home, and the International Center of Photography was created. In 1985, a satellite facility, ICP Midtown, was created. Plans were also made for the redesign and reconstruction of the Midtown location.

Redesign and reconstruction

In 1999, the headquarters building at 1130 Fifth Avenue was sold. The expanded galleries at 1133 Avenue of the Americas 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 site, previously used as a photo gallery for

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, 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 Avenue of the Americas. Designed by the architecture firm Gensler, the school facility doubled ICP's teaching space and allowed ICP to expand both its programming and community outreach.

Move to the Bowery and Essex Crossing

In 2014, ICP's board approved a plan to buy a building on the

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near the New Museum and relocate there. The center's school, whose lease continued through 2018, remained in Midtown, but was expected to eventually move downtown to consolidate operations. The midtown museum closed on January 11, 2015, when its lease ended. The ICP museum at 250 Bowery opened on June 23, 2016. 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. In January 2020, ICP opened its new integrated center at 79 Essex Street. Designed by architecture firm Gensler, the building has 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.

ICP School

ICP's school serves more than 3,500 students each year, offering courses in a curriculum that ranges from darkroom classes to certificate and master's degree programs. Other educational programming includes a lecture series, seminars, symposia, and workshops hosted by professional photographers. Opened in 2001, the School was previously at a facility at 1114 Avenue of the Americas. Designed by Gensler, it was across the street from the former ICP Museum. ICP's school and museum are now located in a unified center on Manhattan's Lower East Side at 79 Essex Street. The school offers a year-round selection of continuing education classes; three one-year Certificate programs (Creative Practices in Photography, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, and New Media Narratives); and the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, a two-year graduate program leading to a master of fine arts degree.

Public programs

Public programs address issues in photography and its relationship to art, culture, and society and promote the interpretation of ICP's exhibitions and collections. The Photographers 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

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.

Infinity Awards

The ICP hosts the Infinity Awards, which were inaugurated in 1985 "to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries".

Winners

1985 * Master of Photography: André Kertész * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Sarah Moon * Art:

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

* Photojournalism: Alberto Venzago * Publication: ''Photo Poche'' * Young Photographer: 1986 * Master of Photography: Hiroshi Hamaya * Lifetime Achievement:

Edward K. Thompson Edward Kramer Thompson (January 15, 1907 – October 8, 1996) was an American writer and editor. He was the editor of ''Life'' from its early days as a weekly and was the founding editor of '' Smithsonian'' magazine. Biography Thompson was born ...

* Art: Lucas Samaras * Design: Alan Richardson * Photojournalism: Sebastião Salgado * Publication:

W. Eugene Smith William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist.Peacock, Scot. "W(illiam) Eugene Smith." ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2003. ''Biography In Context'' He has been described as "perhaps the sin ...

, ''Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs'' * Young Photographer:

Anthony Suau Anthony Suau is an American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, based in New York City. Life and work Suau was born in Peoria, Illinois. He worked for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', and ''The Denver Post'', was a contract photographer for ''Tim ...

1987 * Master of Photography: Manuel Álvarez Bravo * Lifetime Achievement:

Harold Edgerton Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising:

Jay Maisel Jay Maisel (born January 18, 1931) is an American photographer. His awards include the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Media Photographers,

* Art: Robert Rauschenberg * Design: Hans-Georg Pospischil * Photojournalism: Eugene Richards * Publication: Robert Frank, ''New York to Nova Scotia'' * Young Photographer: Paul Graham 1988 * Master of Photography: Alfred Eisenstaedt * Lifetime Achievement:

Edwin H. Land Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an Russian-American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Guy Bourdin * Art: Georges Rousse and Joel-Peter Witkin * Design: Werner Jeker * Photojournalism: Sebastião Salgado * Publication: Richard Misrach, ''Desert Cantos'' * Writing: Peter Galassi * Young Photographer: Marc Trivier 1989 * Master of Photography:

Berenice Abbott Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Alexander Liberman * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Joyce Tenneson * Art:

Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929) is an Austrian painter noted for his abstract informal art. Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the ''Hundsgruppe'' (''dog gro ...

* Design: Michael Rand * Photojournalism:

James Nachtwey James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer. He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two World Press Photo awards. In 2003, Nachtwey was injured in a gre ...

* Publication: Josef Koudelka, ''Exiles'' * Writing: John Szarkowski * Young Photographer: Pablo Cabado 1990 * Master of Photography:

Yousuf Karsh Yousuf Karsh, FRPS (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was a Canadian-Armenian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. An Armenian ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Gordon Parks * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Annie Leibovitz * Art:

Chuck Close Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very l ...

* Photojournalism: Jacques Langevin * Publication: Sarah Greenough and Joel Snyder, ''On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography'' * Writing:

Max Kozloff Max Kozloff (born 1933) is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at ''The Nation'', and Executive Editor of ''Artforum''. His essay "American Painting During the Cold War" is of particular imp ...

* Young Photographer: Miro Svolik 1991 * Master of Photography: Harry Callahan * Lifetime Achievement:

Andreas Feininger Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (December 27, 1906 – February 18, 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Herb Ritts * Art: Duane Michals * Design:

Gran Fury Emerging from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in 1988, Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members including: Richard Elovich, Avram Finkelstein, Amy Heard, Tom Kalin, John Lindell, Lori ...

* Photojournalism:

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* Publication: Sylvia Plachy, ''Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour'' * Writing:

Anna Fárová Anna Fárová (1 June 1928 – 27 February 2010) was a Czech art historian who specialized and catalogued Czech and Czechoslovak photographers, including František Drtikol and Josef Sudek. She was one of the pioneers of writing on history of pho ...

* Young Photographer: Walter Dhladhla 1992 * Master of Photography: Lennart Nilsson * Lifetime Achievement:

Carl Mydans Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and ''Life'' magazine. Life Mydans grew up playing on the Mystic River near Medford, near Boston, Massachusetts. His fat ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Oliviero Toscani * Art:

Doug and Mike Starn Doug and Mike Starn are American artists, identical twins, born 1961. Biography The Starn brothers gained international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial. The Starns have been primarily working conceptually with photography for the past tw ...

* Design: Gunter Rambow * Photojournalism: Christopher Morris * Publication: Irving Penn, ''Passage: A Work Record'' * Writing: Alan Trachtenberg * Young Photographer: Klaus Reisinger 1993 * Master of Photography: Richard Avedon * Lifetime Achievement:

Stefan Lorant Stefan Lorant ( hu, Lóránt István; February 22, 1901 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary – November 14, 1997 in Rochester, Minnesota) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author. Early work He was born on February 22 ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Geof Kern * Art: Anselm Kiefer * Design: David Carson * Photojournalism:

* Publication: Jane Livingston, ''The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963'' * Writing:

Arthur C. Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for ''The Nation'' and for his work in philosoph ...

* Young Photographer: Nick Waplington 1994 * Master of Photography:

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as ca ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Howard Chapnick * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Bruce Weber * Art: Cindy Sherman * Photojournalism: Hans-Jürgen Burkard * Publication: Sebastião Salgado and Lelia Wanick Salgado, ''Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age'' * Writing: Maria Morris Hambourg and Pierre Apraxine * Young Photographer: Fazal Sheikh 1995 * Master of Photography:

Eve Arnold Eve Arnold, OBE (honorary), FRPS (honorary) (née Cohen; April 21, 1912January 4, 2012) was an American photojournalist, long-resident in the UK. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. She was the first woman ...

* Lifetime Achievement: John Szarkowski * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Josef Astor * Art: Clarissa Sligh * Design: Yolanda Cuomo * Photojournalism:

Gilles Peress Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. Peress began working with photography in 1970, having previously studied political science and philosophy in Paris. One of Peress' first projects ex ...

* Publication: Eugene Richards, ''Americans We: Photographs and Notes'' * Writing: Deborah Willis * Young Photographer: Sean Doyle 1996 * Master of Photography: Horst P. Horst * Lifetime Achievement:

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Wolfgang Volz * Art:

Annette Messager Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. In 2005 she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. ...

* Design: Markus Rasp * Photojournalism: Lise Sarfati * Publication:

, ''The Silence'' * Writing:

A. D. Coleman Allan Douglass Coleman (born 1943) is an independent American critic, historian, educator, and curator of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. He has published 8 books and more than 2000 ...

* Young Photographer: Eva Leitolf 1997 * Master of Photography:

Helen Levitt Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009) was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City. David Levi Strauss described her as "the most celebrated and leas ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Robert Delpire * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: David LaChapelle * Art: Christian Boltanski * Design:

Chip Kidd Charles Kidd (born 1964) is an American graphic designer known for book covers. Early childhood Born in Shillington in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up being fascinated and heavily inspired by American popular culture. Comic books w ...

* Photojournalism: Mary Ellen Mark * Publication: Chris Riley and Douglas Niven, ''The Killing Fields'' * Writing: Vicki Goldberg * Young Photographer: Lauren Greenfield 1998 * Master of Photography:

Roy DeCarava Roy Rudolph DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was an American artist. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography, initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communi ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Naomi Rosenblum and

Walter Rosenblum Walter A. Rosenblum (1919–2006) was an American photographer. He photographed the World War II D-Day landing at Normandy in 1944. He was the first Allied photographer to enter the liberated Dachau concentration camp. He received several milita ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin * Art: Sigmar Polke * Design: J. Abbott Miller * Photojournalism: Steve Hart * Publication: Horst Faas and Tim Page, ''Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina'' * Writing: Robert Coles * Young Photographer: Michael Ackerman 1999 * Master of Photography:

Arnold Newman Arnold Abner Newman (March 3, 1918 – June 6, 2006) was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images. Early life and caree ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Harold Evans * Applied/Fashion/Advertising:

Julius Shulman Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph " Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as the Stahl House. Shulman ...

* Art:

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Early life and education Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs ...

* Design: Bart Houtman and Guido van Lier * Photojournalism: Alexandra Boulat * Publication:

Charles Bowden Charles Clyde Bowden (July 20, 1945 – August 30, 2014) was an American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist based in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Background He attended the University of Arizona and then the University of Wisconsin, where h ...

, ''Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future'' * Writing: John Morris * Young Photographer:

Nicolai Fuglsig Nicolai Fuglsig () is a Danish film director and photojournalist. He graduated from the Danish School of Journalism. In 1999, his book on an untold nuclear disaster (Techa River pollution by the Mayak plutonium production site) won the ICP Infi ...

* Special Presentation: L. Fritz Gruber 2000 * Cornell Capa Award: Robert Frank * Lifetime Achievement:

Nathan Lyons Nathan Lyons (January 10, 1930 – August 31, 2016) was an American photographer, curator, and educator. He exhibited his photographs from 1956 onwards, produced books of his own and edited those of others. Lyons was also a curator of photography ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Hubble Heritage Project * Art:

Adam Fuss Adam Fuss (born 1961) is a British photographer. Early life Adam Fuss was born in England in 1961. His father manufactured women's coats and his mother was an Australian fashion model. Fuss's father suffered a stroke in 1963 and required cons ...

* Photojournalism:

* Publication: Manfred Heiting, ''Helmut Newton Work'' * Writing: Andy Grundberg * Young Photographer: Zach Gold 2001 * Cornell Capa Award: Mary Ellen Mark * Lifetime Achievement: Roger Thérond * Applied/Fashion/Advertising:

Philip-Lorca diCorcia Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer, living in New York City. He teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Release: David Zwirner - Philip-Lorca diCorcia: ''Thousand'' (February 27 - March 28, 2009). Retrieved ...

* Art:

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works ...

* Photojournalism:

Luc Delahaye Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is ...

* Publication: Jeff L. Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund, ''Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology'' * Writing: Eugenia Parry * Young Photographer: Elinor Carucci 2002 * Cornell Capa Award: here is New York: a democracy of photographs * Lifetime Achievement: Michael E. Hoffman * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: RJ Muna * Art: Shirin Neshat * Photojournalism:

Tyler Hicks Tyler Portis Hicks (born July 9, 1969) is a photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for ''The New York Times''. Based in Kenya, he covers foreign news for the newspaper with an emphasis on conflict and war. Hicks was present during the ...

* Publication: Robert Lebeck and Bodo von Dewitz, ''Kiosk: A History of Photojournalism'' * Writing:

Ariella Azoulay Ariella Aïsha Azoulay ( he, אריאלה עאישה אזולאי; born Tel Aviv, 1962) is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of ...

* Young Photographer: Lynsey Addario * Special Presentation:

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"Portraits of Grief" 2003 * Cornell Capa Award:

Marc Riboud Marc Riboud (; 24 June 1923 – 30 August 2016) was a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the Far East: ''The Three Banners of China'', ''Face of North Vietnam'', ''Visions of China'', and ''In China''. Early life and e ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Bernd and Hilla Becher * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Thái Công * Art:

Zarina Bhimji Zarina Bhimji (born 1963) is a Ugandan Indian photographer, based in London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007, exhibited at Documenta 11 in 2002, and is represented in the public collections of Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art i ...

* Photojournalism:

Alex Majoli Alex Majoli (born 1971) is an Italian photographer known for his documentation of war and conflict. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Majoli's work focuses on the human condition and the theater within our daily lives. Life and work Majoli was born ...

* Publication: Deirdre O'Callaghan, ''Hide That Can'' * Writing: Sara Stevenson * Young Photographer: Jonas Bendiksen 2004 * Cornell Capa Award: Josef Koudelka * Lifetime Achievement: William Eggleston * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Alison Jackson * Art:

Fiona Tan Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia) is a visual artist primarily known for her photography, film and video art installations. With her own complex cultural background, Tan's work is known for its skillful craftsmanship and emotional int ...

* Photojournalism:

Simon Norfolk Simon Norfolk (born 1963) is a Nigerian-born British architectural and landscape photographer. He has produced four photo book monographs of his work. His photographs are held in over a dozen public museum collections. Life and work Norfolk was b ...

* Publication:

Doon Arbus Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist. Her debut novel is ''The Caretaker'' ( New Directions, 2020). Her play, ''Third Floor, Second Door on the Right'', was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre by the 2003 New York ...

and Elisabeth Sussman, ''Diane Arbus: Revelations'' * Writing: Susan Sontag * Young Photographer: Tomoko Sawada 2005 * Cornell Capa Award: Susan Meiselas * Lifetime Achievement: Bruce Weber * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Deborah Turbeville * Art:

Loretta Lux Loretta Lux (born 1969) is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She lives and works in Ireland. Life and work Lux was born in Dresden, East Germany. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich i ...

* Photojournalism: ''

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'' * Publication: Henryk Ross, ''Łódź Ghetto Album'' * Writing: Vince Aletti * Young Photographer: Tomás Munita 2006 * Cornell Capa Award: Don McCullin * Lifetime Achievement: Lee Friedlander * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Steven Meisel * Art:

Thomas Ruff Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images". Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German ...

* Trustee Award: Getty Images * Photojournalism: Yuri Kozyrev * Publication: Mary Panzer and , ''Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955'' * Writing: Geoff Dyer * Young Photographer: Ahmet Polat 2007 * Cornell Capa Award:

Milton Rogovin Milton Rogovin Pronounced "ruh-GO-vin" (December 30, 1909 – January 18, 2011) was an American social documentary photographer. His photographs are in the Library of Congress, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Center for Creative Photography and othe ...

* Lifetime Achievement: William Klein * Art: Tracey Moffatt * Trustee Award:

Karl Lagerfeld Karl Otto Lagerfeld (; 10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer, creative director, artist and photographer. He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 ...

* Publication: Tendance Floue, ''Sommes-Nous?'' * Writing: David Levi Strauss * Young Photographer: Ryan McGinley 2008 * Lifetime Achievement: Malick Sidibé * Applied/Fashion/Advertising:

Craig McDean Craig McDean (born 1964 in England) is a British fashion photographer, originally from Middlewich, now based in New York City. Life McDean originally trained and worked as a car mechanic before studying photography at Mid Cheshire College (OND ...

* Art:

Edward Burtynsky Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of indust ...

* Trustee Award: Diane Keaton * Photojournalism:

* Publication:

Taryn Simon Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City, Simon has had work featured in the ...

, ''An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar'' * Writing:

Bill Jay William Jay (12 August 1940 – 10 May 2009) was a photographer, writer on and advocate of photography, curator, magazine and picture editor, lecturer, public speaker and mentor. He was the first editor of "the immensely influential magazine" ''Cr ...

* Young Photographer: Mikhael Subotzky 2009 * Cornell Capa Award:

Letizia Battaglia Letizia Battaglia (; 5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. A documentary film based on her lif ...

* Lifetime Achievement: Annie Leibovitz * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Tim Walker * Art:

Rinko Kawauchi Rinko Kawauchi HonFRPS (川内倫子, ''Kawauchi Rinko,'' born 1972) is a Japanese photographer. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life. Life and work Kawauchi became interested in photograp ...

* Trustee Award: Gayle G. Greenhill * Photojournalism: Geert van Kesteren * Publication: Aglaia Konrad, ''Desert Cities'' * Writing: Aveek Sen * Young Photographer: Lieko Shiga 2010 * Cornell Capa Award: Peter Magubane * Lifetime Achievement:

John G. Morris John Godfrey Morris (December 7, 1916 – July 28, 2017) was an American picture editor, author and journalist, and an important figure in the history of photojournalism. Early life and family background Morris was born on December 7, 1916 in M ...

* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Daniele Tamagni * Art: Lorna Simpson * Trustee Award: Gilbert C. Maurer * Photojournalism: Reza * Publication: Sarah Greenough, ''Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"'' * Writing:

Lucy Sante Lucy Sante (formerly Luc Sante; born May 25, 1954) is a Belgium-born American writer, critic, and artist. She is a frequent contributor to ''The New York Review of Books''. Her books include '' Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York'' (1991) ...

* Young Photographer: 2011 * Cornell Capa Award: Ruth Gruber * Lifetime Achievement: Elliott Erwitt * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Viviane Sassen * Art: Abelardo Morell * Trustee Award: The Durst Family * Photojournalism: Adrees Latif * Publication: Alec Soth * Writing:

Gerry Badger Gerald David "Gerry" Badger (born 1946) is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer. In 2018 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society. Life and career Badger was born in 1946 in Northa ...

* Young Photographer: Peter van Agtmael 2012 * Cornell Capa Award: Ai Weiwei * Lifetime Achievement: Daido Moriyama * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes * Art:

Stan Douglas Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining ...

* Trustee Award: John "Launny" Steffens * Photojournalism: Benjamin Lowy * Publication:

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The ''Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía'' ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. It ...

, ''The Worker Photography Movement 926–1939' * Writing:

David Campany David Campany (born 8 October 1967) is a British writer, curator, artist and educator, working mainly with photography. He has written and edited books; contributed essays and reviews to other books, journals, magazines and websites; curated pho ...

* Young Photographer: Anouk Kruithof 2013 * Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: David Goldblatt * Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Erik Madigan Heck * Art:

Mishka Henner Mishka Henner (born 8 June 1976) is a Belgian artist living and working in Manchester, England. His work has featured in several surveys of contemporary artists working with photography in the internet age. He has been described by some as a mode ...

* Trustee Award: Pat Schoenfeld * Photojournalism: David Guttenfelder * Publication:

Cristina de Middel Cristina de Middel (born 1975) is a Spanish documentary photographer and artist living and working in Uruapan, Mexico. De Middel self-published ''The Afronauts'' in 2012, a photobook about the short-lived Zambian space program in Southern Africa. ...

, ''The Afronauts'' * Young Photographer: Kitra Cahana * Special Presentation: Jeff Bridges 2014 * Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement:

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* Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Steven Klein * Art: James Welling * Photojournalism: Stephanie Sinclair and

Jessica Dimmock Jessica Dimmock (born June 23, 1978) is a documentary photojournalist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her body of work, ''The Ninth Floor'', documented the lives of a group of young heroin users over the course of several years. E ...

* Publication: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, ''Holy Bible'' * Young Photographer: Samuel James 2015 * Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement:

Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biograp ...

* Art: Larry Fink * Trustee Award: The Lean In Collection by Getty Images * Photojournalism: Tomas van Houtryve * Publication:

LaToya Ruby Frazier LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) is an American artist and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier began photographing her family and hometown at the age of 16, revising the socia ...

, ''The Notion of Family'' * New Media: Question Bridge: Black Males * Young Photographer: Evgenia Arbugaeva * Special Presentation: Mario Testino 2016 * Lifetime Achievement: David Bailey * Art: Walid Raad * Trustee Award: Artur Walther,

The Walther Collection The Walther Collection is a private non-profit organization dedicated to researching, collecting, exhibiting, and publishing modern and contemporary photography and video art. The collection has two exhibition spaces: the Walther Collection in N ...

* Documentary and Photojournalism: Zanele Muholi * Artist's Book: Matthew Connors, ''Fire in Cairo'' * Critical Writing and Research: Susan Schuppli * Online Platform and New Media: Jonathan Harris and Gregor Hochmuth for Network Effect 2017 * Lifetime Achievement:

Harry Benson Harry James Benson CBE (born 2 December 1929) is a Scottish photographer. His photographs of celebrities have been published in magazines. He has published several books and won a number of prominent awards. Life and work Benson was born in G ...

* Art:

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...

* Documentary and Photojournalism: Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, ''Negative Publicity'' * Artist's Book: Michael Christopher Brown, ''Libyan Sugar'' * Critical Writing and Research: Michael Famighetti and Sarah Lewis for "Vision & Justice," ''

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'' (no. 223, summer 2016) * Online Platform and New Media: For Freedoms * Emerging Photographer: Vasantha Yogananthan 2018 * Lifetime Achievement: Bruce Davidson * Applied: Alexandra Bell * Art:

Samuel Fosso Samuel Fosso (born July 17, 1962) is a Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer who has worked for most of his career in the Central African Republic. His work includes using self-portraits adopting a series of personas, often commenting on the his ...

* Artist's Book:

Dayanita Singh Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961) is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books. Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, draw ...

, ''Museum Bhavan'' * Critical Writing and Research: Maurice Berger, ''Race Stories'' column for the Lens section of the ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' * Documentary and Photojournalism: Amber Bracken * Emerging Photographer: Natalie Keyssar * Online Platform and New Media: Women Photograph * Special Presentation: Juergen Teller * Trustees Award:

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2019 * Lifetime Achievement: Rosalind Fox Solomon * Art: Dawoud Bey * Critical Writing and Research: Zadie Smith, “Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory” for ''

'' * Emerging Photographer: Jess T. Dugan * Special Presentation: Shahidul Alam 2022 *Lifetime Achievement: Sebastião Salgado *Trustees: Gabriela Hearst * Art:

Sky Hopinka Sky Hopinka (born 1984) is a Native American visual artist and filmmaker who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people. Hopinka was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 2022. Early life an ...

* Documentary Practice & Photojournalism: Acacia Johnson * Emerging Photographer: Esther Horvath

Permanent collection

The permanent collection at ICP contains more than 200,000 photographs and related materials from the earliest forms of photography to contemporary work. 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

daguerrotype Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre ...

gelatin silver The gelatin silver process is the most commonly used chemical process in black-and-white photography, and is the fundamental chemical process for modern analog color photography. As such, films and printing papers available for analog photograph ...

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

, the Farm Security Administration photographers, Alfred Eisenstaedt,

Lisette Model Lisette Model (born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern; November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography. A prolific photographer in the 1940s and a member ...

, Gordon Parks, James VanDerZee, Louise Ozell Martin, and Garry Winogrand. Recent purchases have included work by contemporary photographers such as Carrie Mae Weems,

Justine Kurland Justine Kurland (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City. Early life and education Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York. She earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to study with Greg ...

, 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 World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

and II, such as '' Vu'', '' Regards'', '' Picture Post'', '' Lilliput'', '' Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung'', ''

Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung ''Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung'' or ''AIZ'' (in English, ''The Workers Pictorial Newspaper'') was a German illustrated magazine published between 1924 and March 1933 in Berlin, and afterward in Prague and finally Paris until 1938. Anti-Fascism ...

'', and ''

Life Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy ...

''. 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.

Publications

In 2003 the ICP joined with the publisher Steidl of

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, Germany to launch the photography imprint ICP/Steidl.

ICP/Steidl publications

*"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 The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their unders ...

Best Book Design, Honorable Mention. * ''Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography.'' 2006. Edited by

Okwui Enwezor Okwui Enwezor (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lived in New York City and Munich. In 2014, he was ranked 24 in the '' ArtReview'' list of the 100 m ...

. Received the

PHotoEspaña PHotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts of Madrid, is a photography forum that began in 1998. The Festival’s program presents work by Spanish and international image-makers. It runs an awards programme with sev ...

: Best International Photography Book of the Year. * ''Susan Meiselas: In History.'' 2008. Received the

Rencontres d’Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

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.

Other ICP publications

* ''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.

DVD

* ''The Decisive Moment'' (2007) by

The ICP Library

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. Library materials are searchable on ICP's online catalog.

The GEH–ICP Alliance

In 2000,

George Eastman House The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...

(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. In this collaboration, the staffs of the International Center of Photography and George Eastman House share resources, pool their expertise, and dovetail their collections for a series of exhibitions called "New Histories of Photography".

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History

Redesign and reconstruction

Move to the Bowery and Essex Crossing

ICP School

Public programs

Community programs

Infinity Awards

Winners

Permanent collection

Publications

ICP/Steidl publications

Other ICP publications

DVD

The ICP Library

The GEH–ICP Alliance

See also

References

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