New York in images

‘New York, Then and Now’: that’s the name of the exhibition hosted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art until July 31. A sampling of New York City images as seen from the eyes of twenty-nine international photographers, both amateur and professional, dead and alive. Though focusing on life in New York, the exhibition is the story of every city. It is also an autobiography of each photographer’s interests, concerns, and personality.

From a homeless man on the street, to the intellectual, in his apartment, photographer Carlos Escolastico, from Sevilla, Spain, chooses to focus on where and how people live. Russian photographer Valery Orlov, and Jennifer Drucker, Arthur Leipzig, Anita Chernewski, and Jill Connor, all look to the old and weathered face of Brooklyn’s Coney Island, the once legendary, turn of the century, amusement park.

Barry Kornbluh’s photographs, present the jazzy side of the city and Walter Rosenblum’s (1919-2006), and Arthur Leipzig’s photographs take us back to New York during the 1940s.

Date: from June 28 to July 31, 2011
Location: Moscow Museum of Moden Art, 9 Tverskoy Boulevard
Hours: from Monday to Sunday from 12 p.m. to 20 p.m. Thursday from 13 p.m. to 21 p.m.