Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Shows at the Light Gallery

In 1971, Tennyson Schad opened Light Gallery in New York City. It was one of two galleries devoted solely to photography open at the time. What distinguished Light Gallery was it's aim of representing exclusively contemporary photographers. In time, the gallery showed Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, Paul Strand, Robert Mapplethorpe, Garry Winogrand and many more.

The other historically important thing about Light Gallery was that it produced quite a few current gallery directors including Laurence Miller, Peter MacGill, Robert Mann and Harold Jones.

Here are some samples of announcements for exhibitions held at the gallery:



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Thanks to Jeffrey Ladd for this post. You can see his work here and here.

2 comments:

Mr Whiskets said...

I like how the one card advertises the Bill Moyers special that interviewed Garry Winogrand and Emmet Gowin.

April 2, 2009 at 10:07 AM
L' Americana said...

Googled:Light Gallery 5th Ave and found you. I worked in the offices of American Showcase, Ex Assist to Ari Shapiro who sublet from Tennyson.
For a BFA holder in Fine Art and History of Art & Photography, his office was mecca. Nice to see this here.

June 19, 2016 at 8:18 AM

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