The New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/movies/the-new-yawk-new-wave-series-at-film-forum.html?ref=movies&_r=1

Additional Press this week: Variety, Time Out, Village Voice, New Yorker and New York.

US Dates:

Feburary 5th – Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, NY

February 16th – Los Angeles County Museum of Art

February 23, 25th, 28th – Charles Theater, Baltimore, MD

February 22 – 28 – Siskel Center, Chicago, IL

March 29, 30 – Cleveland Cinematieque

March 29 – April 4 – Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Washington

In the 1920s New York City surpassed London to become the most populous and industrially advanced city in the world. A dense and animated urban environment without parallel, the city emerged as the cultural icon we know today, driven in part by an influx of European artists and an upswing in the number of galleries and museums dedicated to modern art. A number of photographers working in this dynamic environment made the city and its populace their subject.

Morris Engel, dockworkers, NYC, late 1940’s

Artists such as Morris Engel, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Paul Strand, and Weegee were among those deeply inspired by New York City. Photographing or filming everyday scenes as well as bustling, illuminated nightlife, these artists reveled in the genre of street photographyand created some of America’s first avant-garde cinema. Groups such as the Film and Photo League (later the Photo League), formed in 1931, championed photography’s ability to record the city in transition, with a particular focus on life in working-class neighborhoods. The group remained ctive until 1951, and its impact lasted for decades.

This trajectory of discovery and influence lies at the heart of the presentation of Film and Photo in New York The exhibition draws on the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which includes a significant number of New York City street photographs made between the 1920s and the 1950s. Among these works are many important photographs recently acquired thanks to a grant from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, including an extensive Morris Engel photo essay on view in its own gallery. Rarely seen films will be presented alongside the exhibition’s nearly 80 photographic works—more than half of which have never been displayed before—creating a compelling glimpse of a pivotal time in both New York City and the history of photography and film.

Sponsor
This exhibition is generously supported by Mrs. Robert O. Levitt.

Major funding provided by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951
November 04, 2011 – March 25, 2012

An exhibit of the photographs taken by members of the Photo League opens at The Jewish Museum this week, and runs through March 25th, 2012.

Included in the exhibit are photographs by Morris Engel and his wife, Ruth Orkin

There is a very nice photo essay about the exhibit in the NY Times, you can see the Photo League images here.

The Radical Camera Exhibit can be seen:

The Jewish Museum, NYC
November 04, 2011 – March 25, 2012
www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/photoleague

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
April 19, 2012 – September 9, 2012
www.columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
October 11, 2012 – January 21, 2013
www.thecjm.org/

Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
February 9, 2012 – April 21, 2013
www.norton.org/

“Little Fugitive” is being released in France for the first time in 50 years by Carlotta Films in February, 2009.

Turner Classic Movies will air all three of Morris Engel’s features, “Little Fugitive”, (1953) “Lovers and Lollipops” (1955) and “Weddings and Babies” (1958) and two documentaries by Mary Engel. One is a world premiere “Morris Engel: The Independent” (2007) 28 minutes, and “Ruth Orkin:Frames of Life” (1995) 18 minutes, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996.

RECENT PRESS

“Cahiers De Cinema” feature story on “Little Fugitive” and Morris Engel. February 2009.