Day: February 3, 2019

Happy Birthday Jackie Robinson on what would have been his 100th Birthday! Photos copyright Ruth Orkin Honoring the birth of a legend. https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/dugout-jackie-robinson In 1947 Jackie Robinson made history when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American in Major League Baseball. In honor of the centennial of Robinson’s birth, In ...

Ruth Orkin’s photograph “Mother and Daughter at Penn Station, NYC, 1947” is included in this new exhibition at Gracie Mansion. https://www1.nyc.gov/…/downlo…/pdf/She-Persists-Brochure.pdf NYTIMES.COM On Display at the People’s House: A Century of Persistence Chirlane McCray sets a populist tone with an exhibition of female artists, long underrepresented at Gracie Mansion. NYTIMES.COM ...

January 17 at 12:00 AM ·  In memory of the incredible Carol Channing, most memorable in the classic “Hello Dolly”. Copyright Ruth Orkin

December 28, 2018 ·  it was great to attend this wonderful concert back in August. Don’t miss it tonight at 9pm! Includes five of Ruth’s photos of Bernstein from the late 1940’s at Tanglewood. Don’t miss the Great Performances l PBS broadcast of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood Music Festival, featuring a historic gala ...

Two of Ruth’s photographs included in this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection August 23, 2018–March 31, 2019 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor Featuring more than 100 works from our collection, Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the ...

Mary Engel-August 25, 2018 I am honored to celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s centennial today by posting a mini-portfolio of my mom Ruth Orkin’s photographs from Tanglewood and Lewisohn Stadium in the late 40’s! I’ve included a short memory from when he spoke at her memorial in 1985, which is included on ...

Wonderful showHoward Greenberg Gallery. Staff Picks Vll, runs through August 30. Summer hours M-F, 10-5pm. Includes one photograph by Ruth Orkin, “Two little boys on the sidewalk, summer, NYC, 1947” in Morgan Beckwith selection.               

  ECONOMIST.COM Ninalee Allen Craig died on May 1st The star of one of the 20th century’s most famous and controversial images was 90

  WASHINGTONPOST.COM Ninalee Allen Craig, subject of iconic ‘American Girl in Italy’ photos, dies at 90 The 1951 image became a rallying cry against sexual harassment, but Mrs. Craig said it was “a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time.”

NYTIMES.COM Ninalee Allen Craig, at the Center of a Famous Photograph, Dies at 90 Ms. Craig reveled in her starring role in Ruth Orkin’s “American Girl in Italy” and said she wasn’t the least bit offended by the men ogling her.