ICP’s winter exhibitions kick off with Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, opening on January 23 and on view through May 5 (presented in partnership with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson).
The exhibition revisits Weegee’s bold, boundary-pushing perspective and celebrates his pioneering role in documenting spectacle, from crime and tragedy on New York City’s streets to distorted portraits of iconic Hollywood celebrities. Drawn largely from the ICP’s Weegee collection, the show marks the sixth major presentation of Weegee’s work at ICP and the first since it relocated to Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood – the very same one that Weegee transformed into an urban stage in his photographs.
