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Berenice Abbott at Howard Greenberg Gallery

As old buildings come down and new luxury condos go up along the High Line in Chelsea, an exhibition of American photographer Berenice Abbott’s WPA-sponsored ‘Changing New York’ photos from the 30s at Howard Greenberg Gallery puts the transformation in the context of the city’s constant evolution. This picture memorializes a modest business now replaced by the residential towers of Peter Cooper Village at the other (east) end of 23rd Street. (In the 57th Street area, through April 12th).

Berenice Abbott, Henry Maurer, 420-422 East 23rd Street, looking southeast, Manhattan, June 14, 1938, gelatin silver print; printed c. 1938, 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches.

Joel Meyerowitz at Howard Greenberg Gallery

 

Joel Meyerowitz in front of Easter Parade, Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1964.
Joel Meyerowitz in front of Easter Parade, Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1964.

Today, Joel Meyerowitz chatted with visitors to Howard Greenberg Gallery on the occasion of a show of his street photographs from the 60s and 70s, which include iconic shots like his couple in camel colored coats walking through NYC steam, the odd spectacle of a fallen man on a Paris sidewalk, and this eccentric human/cat threesome from New York’s 1964 Easter Parade. (On 57th Street through December 1st).

Gordon Parks at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Gordon Parks, Ingrid Bergman on location for the filming of Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Stromboli’, 1949 & Mr & Mrs Albert Thornton in their living room in Mobile Alabama, 1956.
Gordon Parks, Ingrid Bergman on location for the filming of Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Stromboli’, 1949 & Mr & Mrs Albert Thornton in their living room in Mobile Alabama, 1956.

Gordon Parks’ iconic photographs spanned the worlds of fashion, celebrity and social documentary from this 1949 photo of Ingrid Bergman on location for the filming of Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Stromboli’ to a photo from the ’56 Segregation Series that demonstrates the respectable normality of Mr & Mrs Albert Thornton in their living room in Mobile Alabama. Both are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery on 57th Street through Oct 27th.