10th Anniversary of Monroe Gallery

December 21, 2011 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography

 

 

 

 

 

Image #1 for 10th Anniversary of Monroe GalleryPHOTOS WORTH 100 WORDS

Image #2 for 10th Anniversary of Monroe Gallery
Steve Schapiro: Martin Luther King, Selma, Alabama, 1965

 

 

 

 

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by Matthew Irwin

 

4-6 pm, Dec 23, 2011 | Free

 

ARTS & CULTURE
 

In 1983, while serving as the director of a gallery in New York City, Sidney Monroe curated the first show for the great Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. The two talked about the lack of photo-journalist exhibitions, while collectors scooped up Eisenstaedt's prints. Soon after, the Monroe's opened a SoHo gallery dedicated to narrative images taken from real life. "If you remove the event or the history, you often see composition, form, balanceelements you'd find in fine art photography," Monroe says. Then 9.11 wiped out the gallery's neighborhood, so Monroe and his wife, Michelle, moved, as a business decision. Monroe Gallery of Photography has now been in Santa Fe for 10 years, and the Monroes has about as many stories about their business as the photos have about the historical events they depict. (Matthew Irwin)

Holiday/Anniversary Reception: 4-6 pm Friday, Dec. 23. Free.
Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800



Where: Monroe Gallery
Phone: 505-992-0800
Address: 112 Don Gaspar Ave.
Website: http://www.monroegallery.com

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