Photography Showcase | Santa Fe Photography Exhibit

HISTORY IN A MOMENT

Wright Brothers First Flight, Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903

A major exhibition of iconic moments in history as captured by the leading photojournalists of the time. September 30 - November 20, 2016

"History In A Moment" mines the depth and breadth of Monroe Gallery's archives and is combined with new, never-before exhibited photojournalism masterpieces, from the early 1900's to the present day. The photographs in this exhibition are as much a history of American photojournalism as they are a history of the changing face of the latter part of the Twentieth Century. Through the images captured in these photographs, the eyes of a nation were opened as never before to a changing world.

Historic images featured in the exhibition include the Wright Brothers’ first flight, scenes of migrant workers in the 1930’s and the Great Depression, searing war and conflict photography from World War II, Vietnam, 9/11, and the Iraq War. Historic political campaigns are represented, as are key moments in the civil rights struggle from the 1050’s to the present day.

The exhibit includes several photographs by 93-year old Tony Vaccaro. This Fall, the documentary film “Under Fire: The Untold Story of Private First Class Tony Vacarro” will premire at film festivals nation-wide. The film tells the story of how Tony survived the war, fighting the enemy while also documenting his experience at great risk, developing his photos in combat helmets at night and hanging the negatives from tree branches. Monroe Gallery is the exclusive representative for Tony’s work and “History in a Moment” presents Tony’s historic photographs to the gallery public for the first time.

The unforgettable images in this exhibition are imbedded in our collective consciousness; they form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Many of the photographs featured in this exhibition not only moved the public at the time of their publication, and continue to have an impact today, but set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think. Looking at the pictorial documentation of such extraordinary events we often get the impression that we are feeling the pulse of history more intensively than at other times. Although often not beautiful, or easy, they are images that shake and disquiet us; and are etched in our memories forever.

Migrant woman by the side of the road, Texas, 1937

Demonstrators in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Strike, 1937 (Time Inc.)

At the time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

Blinded soldier, New Guinea (George Whittington being led to an aid station by Raphael Oimbari) 1942

Dead 88 at Normandy, France, 1947

Hitler’s Window, Germany, 1945

Japanese Surrender on Board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 (Life Magazine/Time Warner Inc.)

Marines of the 28th Regiment of the 5th Division Raise the American Flag Atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 1945

Winston Churchill, Liverpool, 1951

Kiss of Liberation: Sergeant Gene Costanzo kneels to kiss a little girl during spontaneous celebrations in the main square of the town of St. Briac, France, August 14, 1944

Men of the Garment District Read of President Roosevelt's Death, NYC, 1945

Navy CPO Graham Jackson Playing

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas, November 23, 1963 - Abraham Zapruder

Ralph Morse - New Yorkers reading of assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1963

New York Commuters reading of John F. Kennedy;s assassination, 1963

Senator Robert Kennedy at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, 1966

Bobby Kennedy campaigns in IN during May of 1968, with various aides and friends: former prizefighter Tony Zale and (right of Kennedy) N.F.L. stars Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, and Deacon Jones

Busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy after assassination attempt, June 5, 1968

Women in Parade Down 5th Avenue on the 50th Anniversary of the Passage of the 19th Amendment, New York, 1970 -Photograph by John Olsen

Commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village, New York, 1971

Federal troops escorting African American students to school during integration, September, 1957

Brown Sisters Walk to School, Topeka, Kansas, 1953. Photograph by Carl Iwasaki

Elizabeth Eckford enters Little Rock High School, 1957 - Jack Perkins

Fire hoses aimed at Demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

Martin Luther King, Alabama, 1965

Rosa Parks, Selma March, 1965

Martin Luther King Marching for Voting Rights with John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy, Selma, 1965

Alabama State Troopers, equipped with gas masks, tear gas canisters and carrying billy clubs wait beyond the Bridge

Amelia Boynton Robinson was beaten unconscious. “I have always wondered what the state trooper was thinking.

On the Road, the Selma March, 1965

The Soiling of Old Glory

"Stop Police Killings", Selma March, 1965

Rashaad Davis, 23, backs away as St. Louis County police officers approach him with guns drawn and eventually arrest him, Ferguson, Missouri, August 11, 2014