The Image Gallery Redux

An exhibition titled ‘The Image Gallery Redux: 1959-1962’ reflects on one of the first galleries to exhibit photography as an art form.

In 1959, a photographer named Larry Siegel opened a gallery in a small storefront on East 10th Street in New York City. The gallery, called ‘The Image Gallery’ was dedicated exclusively to photography. It remained open until 1962 and showed the work of leading photographers including Rudy Burckhardt, Sid Grossman, Saul Leiter, Duane Michals, Charles Pratt, and Garry Winogrand, becoming one of the earliest models for exhibiting photography as an art form.

“In those days, photographic prints were not well known,” Siegel said. “People would walk in, point to the wall, and ask, ‘What’s that?’ They thought I had cut the images out of a magazine!”

The early history of photography galleries in New York City is quite brief, with few attempting to exhibit photographs commercially prior to the birth of the photography market in the 1970s. ‘The Image Gallery Redux: 1959-1962’ will explore the work and impact of photographers involved with the Image Gallery, including the early work of many who were just beginning their careers.

‘The Image Gallery Redux: 1959-1962’ is on display until Saturday 15 February 2014 at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

www.howardgreenberg.com

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Ann Treer, Parking Lot, Manhattan, 1960. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1959, 9 x 13 1/4 inches. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
Garry Winogrand, New York, c. 1959. Gelatin silver print, printed before 1960, 8 3/4 x 13 3/8 inches. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
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Sheldon Brody, Untitled, Japan, c. 1960. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1960, 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. Lou Bernstein, Untitled, 1949. Gelatin silver print, 6 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. Enrico Natali, Untitled, from the 'New York Subway' series, 1960. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1960, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. Kenneth Van Sickle, Toile, 1962. Gelatin silver print, printed 1962, 12 x 18 inches. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.