Category Archives: Photography

Behind the Scenes on The Latino List

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Lisa Small

If you’ve visited The Latino List exhibition, you may have wondered how Timothy Greenfield-Sanders creates such monumental photographs. It all starts with the camera. For over 30 years Greenfield-Sanders’s signature tools have been the large-format camera and the large-format negatives … Continue reading…

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How has your culture shaped your life and accomplishments?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Lisa Small

All eyes will be on you this fall when you enter the Great Hall and encounter the twenty-five massive photographic portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders that comprise The Latino List. Those of you who remember his incredibly popular and thought-provoking 2008 … Continue reading…

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Geotag Brooklyn

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Deborah Wythe

Trying to track the history of the images of Brooklyn that we’re geotagging for #mapBK on Flickr and Twitter and then porting to Historypin reminds me of the game of tag, with kids dashing from one side of the yard to another. This … Continue reading…

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Help us pin Brooklyn to the map!

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin’s map before their launch on July 11, 2011.  If we don’t get cracking, Brooklyn is going to be woefully under-represented … Continue reading…

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Object of the Month: August 2010: Miscegenated Family Album

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Patrick Amsellem

It’s when a work of art is able to communicate on many different levels at the same time – when it can speak to audiences on both an emotional and intellectual level – that I often feel it’s the most … Continue reading…

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Hank Willis Thomas on View

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Patrick Amsellem

Last year I blogged about a great new acquisition, Hank Willis Thomas’ “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.” I am thrilled that we have now installed this series of 41 photographs on the Museum’s fifth floor. It is a … Continue reading…

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Hank Willis Thomas

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Patrick Amsellem

One major recent acquisition is Hank Willis Thomas’ series “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.” The whole series consists of 82 images, two for each year from 1968 to 2008, and the acquisition includes half of the series: one … Continue reading…

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Dash Snow

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Patrick Amsellem

The Museum recently acquired some great new photography. Much of it will be on view this coming August when we open a new show with material from the Contemporary Collection. In this delicate group of black and white photographs, Dash … Continue reading…

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Sarah Baley

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Patrick Amsellem

Sarah Baley’s show “Bois” opened at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side last Thursday night and we are very happy to have this image by Sarah in the collection. Sarah Baley (American, born 1969).  Dug, 2005. From the … Continue reading…

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Crowd-Curated or Crowd-Juried?

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Kevin Stayton

After I was recently asked to write a blog posting about Click! from my perspective, I spoke with some of my colleagues—Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography, and Judy Kim, Curator of Exhibitions–about the exhibition, and we began to discuss … Continue reading…

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Click! The Book

Posted on July 7, 2008 by James Leggio

Cover: Marcia Bricker Halperin. Dubrow’s Cafeteria, 1979. Softcover: 86 pages, 7 x 7 inches. Details, including a special $3-off coupon from Blurb.com, can be found here. It may seem strange that in the third millennium, we still communicate by pressing … Continue reading…

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Information Cascade!

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Photo by Donna Aceto, who saved the day when my camera battery died. Thanks, Donna. I couldn’t help but laugh last Saturday night. Click! was packed—clearly, there was an information cascade happening on the second floor of the Brooklyn Museum. … Continue reading…

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Click! Meetup

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

There’s been overwhelming positive feedback about the idea of a Click! meetup during the upcoming Target First Saturday, so let’s do it! I’ll be giving a Click! gallery talk at 8 p.m., so I’m planning to be around from roughly … Continue reading…

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happy opening, everyone!

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

As silly as this seems, it’s just not real until the signs go up and here they are. I will admit, I was more than a little giddy seeing these unwrapped and going into the lobby case and Mary Jane … Continue reading…

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Click! is not a contest…

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

…it is a study in crowds. It should come as no surprise that this title made it into one of my blog posts (there are many colleagues of mine chuckling about this right about now). That said, we are releasing … Continue reading…

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