PPA 2016 Exhibit Press Release….Click here for details
F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E
For more information, contact:
Kathryn Buck, President
Pictorial Photographers of America
(212) 243-0273; (917) 403-5023 cell
kathryn@ppa-photoclub.org or blsspks@aol.com
Platinum to Pixel:
Pictorial Photographers of America Turns 100
Imagination, visual appreciation, and a deep love of photography are among the traits shared by members of one of America’s most enduring photography clubs, Pictorial Photographers of America (PPA). The visual expressions of these traits will be on display at PPA’s 100th anniversary photo exhibit at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, 135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY, from September 10 – October 2, 2016.
The exhibit, Platinum to Pixel: Pictorial Photographers of America Turns 100, is a celebration of the club’s unique history from 1916 to the present. “Undoubtedly this country’s leading pictorial group to emerge since World War I,” according to Christian A. Peterson, former Associate Curator of Photographs at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and author of After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography 1910-1955. PPA was founded by Clarence White, Gertrude Käsebier, Karl Struss, Dr. Drahomir Ruzicka and a number of their contemporaries. Popular Photography’s Norman Rothschild and Edward Meyers have been among PPA’s members, and in its early years, PPA was the first photo club to:
- sponsor an international salon organized by a photo club in New York City;
- print annual hardcover yearbooks, now collector’s items;
- exhibit in conjunction with a World’s Fair (New York, 1939);
- sponsor weekly photo “safaris,” which met at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
In addition to current members’ images, the exhibit will showcase rarely seen images by the late PPA president and Society of Women Geographers member Ruth Doloboff Coleman (1904-1989), and of images by Ruzicka (1870-1960) from a family collection, as well as the PPA Annuals from its early years and other artifacts of interest. There will be screenings of the Murnau film Sunrise (1927), for which Struss won the first Oscar for cinematography.
There will be a program of presentations in conjunction with the exhibit, with topics ranging from PPA’s founders and history to newest techniques. There is even the possibility of a “poetic collaboration” in the making.
This American and New York City institution “has always been a place where people who share a love of creating and sharing photographic images, from talented beginners to experienced, passionate amateurs and professionals, come together to appreciate and learn from each others’ work,” says long-time member and former Vice President Herb Sandler. “I always come away from our meetings knowing a little more about photography and a lot more about my own work.”
For more information, contact Kathryn Buck, President, at 212-243-0273, kathryn@ppa-photoclub.org
or via the website, www.ppa-photoclub.org, which is also getting an anniversary makeover to be ready to start the next 100 years.
Image attachments for press release
Platinum to Pixel: Pictorial Photographers of America Turns 100
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY September 10-October 2, 2016
Images attached, for PR purposes:
The Pause that Refreshes, by Kathryn Buck
Cox’s Bazaar Fish Market, by Stuart Freeman
Bisti Badlands, by Richard Trapani
Contact:
Kathryn Buck, President
Kathryn@ppa-photoclub.org or blsspks@aol.com
917-403-5023