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J. R. Eyerman, Audience Watches Movie  Wearing 3-D Spectacles, 1952. Gelatin  silver print, 29.2 × 21.6 cm.  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Howard  Greenberg Collection ©1952  The Picture Collection Inc. All rights reserved. LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography Saturday, February 22, 2020 - Sunday, June 21, 2020 From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this exhibition examines how the magazine’s use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States. The work of photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Larry Burrows, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Frank Dandridge, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith is explored in the context of the creative and editorial structures at Life. Drawing on...

Atlantic City NOYES ARTS GARAGE 2200 Fairmount Avenue Atlantic City, NJ 08401 P: (609) 350-6662 C: (609) 892-0439 HOURS: Wednesday - Saturday 11:00AM - 6:00PM Sunday 11:00AM - 5:00PM Requested Donations: Adults $3 | Students $2 | Wednesdays FREE | Military FREE

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Atlantic City NOYES ARTS GARAGE 2200 Fairmount Avenue Atlantic City, NJ 08401 P: (609) 350-6662 C: (609) 892-0439 HOURS: Wednesday - Saturday 11:00AM - 6:00PM Sunday 11:00AM - 5:00PM Requested Donations: Adults $3 | Students $2 | Wednesdays FREE | Military FREE

Artworks Selected by Juror: Jenn Hampton Opening Reception: Sunday, September 15, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm This exhibition will feature work representing the breadth and diversity of expression in contemporary photography and includes a variety of photographic media, from traditional black and white images to color photographs, digital and manipulated prints, video/film and alternative processes. Gallery Hours:  Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Friday: 10:00 am – 9:00 pm | Sunday: 12:00 – 5:00 pm Admission to the Museum is $8.  The Museum is located at 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ on the campus of Brookdale Community College, Parking Lot #1, off Museum Drive.

September 15 to November 10 – Mercer County The Trenton Museum Society Presents New Jersey Photography Forum—A 25-Year Retrospective New Exhibit at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park Trenton, New Jersey On Display September 15 - November 10, 2019 Meet the Artists at the Opening Reception Sunday, September 15— (Artists and members 1-2 pm; Public: 2-4 pm) Curator’s Talk by Nancy Ori at the Closing Reception Sunday, November 10— (Reception 1-4 pm, with Curator’s Talk from 2-3:30 pm)     The Trenton Museum Society presents the  25-Year Retrospective Exhibit of the New Jersey Photography Forum from September 15 to November 10  in the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion. The museum is located in Cadwalader Park at 299 Parkside Ave., Trenton. Admission is free with donations welcomed.      The exhibit’s nearly 100 works range from film and digital imagery to alternative processes such as cyanotype, glass fusion...

Cranbury Museum 4 Park Place East Cranbury, N.J. Open Sundays, 1-4 PM

Upper Gallery The Amazing Color Photographs of Hoboken by Anita Heimbruch Sneak back in time to Hoboken in the 1950s and 60s through the rich Kodachrome images taken by Anita Heimbruch, a long-time employee at Hoboken's Keuffel & Esser factory at Third and Adams Streets. Her photographs reflect the daily lives of working-class Hoboken: The festivals, the stoops, the pride they took in their backyard gardens, with crisscrossed lines of laundry drying above. More details to come. The exhibit opens Sunday, August 4, with a free reception from 2 – 5 pm in the Museum's Upper Gallery. The exhibit remains on view through September 15.  The exhibit is supported by a block grant from the State/County Partnership program for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs. Tuesday – Thursday  2 to 7 pm Friday  1 to 5 pm Saturday & Sunday  12 to 5 pm Admission:  $5 Free  for children and members

One of three New Brunswick WWI monuments, along with over 50 NJ Doughboy memorials, now on display at New Brunswick Public Library. PUBLIC WELCOME Thurs., Sept 12th, 6 pm, Erik Burro, photographer and historian of the exhibit will provide insights into his statewide photographic survey and a dedication to New Brunswick doughboy-favorite son, poet, Joyce Kilmer.

Portraits of Caregivers Starts 08 Jun 2019 Ends 31 Aug 2019 Photographs by Raymond W. Holman, Jr. At AAHMSNJ at Stockton University - Noyes Arts Garage 2200 Fairmount Ave., Atlantic City, NJ 08401 FREE. Donations are encouraged. The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey will present  Raymond W. Holman, Jr. ’s exhibit,  Portraits of Caregivers  from June 8th to August 31st .  The exhibit will be on display at the museum located in the Noyes Arts Garage, 2200 Fairmount Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ. Raymond W. Holman, Jr. Caregivers face the emotional, physical, psychological and financial challenges of making decisions about health care, nursing homes, and legal matters for aging loved ones while managing their own lives. Ralph Hunter says “the topic of Caregiving is an important subject for the museum to address because it is something that most of us will have to deal with sooner or later.” Hunter plans to supplement the museum exhibit with useful info...

"A Neglected Legacy:  Reclaiming a Radical Past" The Museum proudly opens the exhibit  A Neglected Legacy:  Reclaiming a Radical Past   by Michele Fazio, Ph. D. on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 at 7PM. A Neglected Legacy:  Reclaiming a Radical Past  features photographs from 1943 that tells the story of the integration of first-generation Italian immigrants into becoming full-fledged Americans.  The exhibit also tells the hidden history of two brothers, Raimondo and Vincenzo Fazio, who were engaged in the Italian American Left's fight for social justice during the early 20th-century U.S. labor movement. According to Dr. Fazio, Associate Professor, Department of English, Theatre and Foreign Languages at the Unversity of North Carolina at Pembroke, "this family story challenges the dominant narratives that have come to define U.S. history and encourages a reconsideration of the past, calling into question not only how we understand immigration and activism to...

Mon-Thurs 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM Fri-Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Nikon Small World Photomicrography Exhibition On view through July 19 Planetarium Ramp Celebrating its 44th year, the Nikon’s Small World competition features stunning photographic images showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through a microscope. The top 20 images are included in the exhibition which is on view adjacent to the Planetarium lobby; this year’s first place image (shown here) by photographer Yousef Al Habshi captures part of the compound eyes and surrounding greenish scales of an Asian Red Palm weevil. The subjects vary widely, from a human tear drop to a butterfly wing, but all demonstrate the wonders of photomicrography and is a terrific example of STEAM – science and technology coming together with art. Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday  9 am to 4:45 pm  Galleries begin closing  at 4:30 pm

Through Sunday, June 16, 2019 - East Amwell, Hunterdon County “Reflections: Czechia & Poland”: Photography Exhibit by Kiya Hendrix Kiya Hendrix is a 17 year old student at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. Kiya has a love of the arts, including photography and film, aspiring to attend college to become a director of cinematography. She also has a love for history and learning about the past. In April 2019 Kiya, along with other Hunterdon Central students, set off on an unforgettable journey to Czechia and Poland. On this trip they would see some of the horrors of the Holocaust. Kiya and her peers were able to learn more about the Jewish community and what once happened during that turbulent time. Kiya took this trip as an opportunity to record her journey, with her aptitude for photography and film, giving others a chance to experience what she saw. In her works, Kiya reflects some of the places and events she saw - for example; the beauty of Prague, and the sadness and inhum...

Upper Gallery Photographer Greg Miller offers unusual views of Hoboken from above Greg Miller’s career in publishing, spanning 46 years, started summers during his college years when he reported for Westwood News. For the first eight years after graduating from college, he averaged 3,500 photos a year for the newspaper, processing negatives in his personal darkroom. Working for the Bergen Record as a reporter he carried his cameras along on assignments, capturing a variety of subject matter over the years. For the past 31 years, he has worked in print production for Thomson Reuters as his print division morphed from Prentice-Hall, Macmillan, and the Research Institute of America. His expertise is short-run print on demand publishing. In 2015, his office moved from Lower Broadway, Manhattan, to River Street, Hoboken. As a photographer, his subjects were more suburban than urban cityscape. “I remember a portfolio course I took at the New School in the ‘70s. I was the lone guy from the Bu...

Sunday, May 26  - Sparta, Sussex  County "Curt E. Engelbrecht: Views through his Lens"