Day: December 10, 2012

HARLEM IN THE CITY FESTIVAL AND EXHIBIT AT CITY COLLEGE from October 1 – October 7. Ruth Orkin’s photograph of Marion Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, Lewisohn Stadium, 1947 is included in this exhibit that was at City College this Fall. http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/news/Harlem-in-the-City-Festival

THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM in San Francisco is currently showing the exhibit RADICAL CAMERA: NEW YORK’S PHOTO LEAGUE (1936-1951) that was originally shown at The Jewish Museum in NYC in 2011. Ruth Orkins’ photograph of “Boy Jumping into the Hudson River, NYC, 1947” is included in the exhibit. http://www.thecjm.org/

The HOWARD GREENBERG COLLECTION exhibition was organized jointly by the Elysee Museum in Lausanne, and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. It is currently at the Elysee Museum in Lausanne from 9/21/12 – 6/1/13. Ruth Orkin’s photograph “American Girl in Italy” is included in the exhibit. http://www.elysee.ch/en/no_cache/exhibitions/detail/article/howard-greenberg-collection/

8 GIRLS TAKING PICTURES by Whitney Otto was just published by Simon and Schuster. It is a fictional book based on the real lives of 8 well known photographers. Ruth Orkin is one of the featured photographers, and there is a chapter based on her life in Italy when she