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Portraits de Nueva York: Fotografías del MoMA

Encendida House Caja Madrid and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, supported by The International Council of MoMA- organized the exhibition "Portraits of New York: Photographs of MoMA" , which discloses an essential part of MoMA's assets: its photographic collection. Curated by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator of the Photography Department of the Museum, is a journey through the history of photography through the work of more than 90 authors, with the emblematic city as a backdrop. Among the photographers represented include Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Breson, Walter Evans, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Cindy Sherman, Irving Penn and Alfred Stieglitz.

To Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator of the Department of Photography at MoMA, "Portraits of New York largely reflects the history of this medium and synergies of the Big Apple over a period of important changes for both. The photographs created by the restless and continuing commitment of many photographers with the City of New York have formed a key part of the perception that New Yorkers have of the city and themselves. Moreover, these photographs have also marked the image of the city in the world's imagination. (...) The city's urban landscape is a combination of old and new in continuous evolution, and these physical changes were found in the demographic changes that have defined the city since the 1880's, when he began the massive influx of immigrants. The same diversity is seen in the photograph of New York for the last four decades. In the same way that its architects are inspired and limited by the adjacent buildings and the zoning code, and as people learn and rub against each other and with previous generations of New York photographers carry a visual memory wide repertoire and extraordinary images of the city and face the challenge of creating new works that go beyond the traditions and respond to what's new in New York. "

From 27 March to 14 June.

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03/27/2009 to 06/14/2009

Picturing New York. Portraits of the MoMA

Portraits of New York  reveals one of MoMA's most prized assets: Its photography collection. Commissioned by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Assistant Curator of the museum's Photographic Department, it takes us on a tour through the history of photography with the work of over 90 photographers using the emblematic city of New York as its backdrop.

Depicting iconic New York, this photographic anthology plays tribute to the city in all its vitality, ambition and beauty.

The most remarkable photographs include those by Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz and Weegee to mention but a few. At the same time, during the month of April the  Videomix. Portraits of New York  season will be presented: A series of short films made by the photographers participating in the exhibition, which explore the complicity which exists between the world of photography and cinema.

Furthermore, Tod Papageorge – Director of the Photographic Department at Yale, also in the exhibition – will be giving two master classes on 4 and 5 May in the Audio-visual Hall of the Casa Encendida.