International Center of Photography

82 Ludlow Street | also 81 Essex Street, 242 Broome Street | Lower East Side | built 2018

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  1. 1967

    The city clears 20 acres below Delancey Street, uprooting 1,800 families, and the land sits mostly empty for decades

    In 1967 New York City razed tenements across about 20 acres south of Delancey Street and displaced more than 1,800 low-income families, most of them Puerto Rican, who were promised new apartments when they were built. The land stayed empty apart from parking lots for decades. It became part of Essex Crossing, whose first phase includes this building.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1974

    November

    Cornell Capa founds the International Center of Photography in a Fifth Avenue mansion

    Cornell Capa started ICP, the institution now housed at Essex Crossing, in the Willard Straight House at 1130 Fifth Avenue, to champion what he called concerned photography, meaning socially minded documentary work. Its exhibition program began that November with shows that included Henri Cartier-Bresson. Capa had set up a fund in 1966 in memory of his brother, the war photographer Robert Capa.

    Source: icp.org

  3. 1985

    ICP Midtown opens on West 45th Street, and the first Infinity Awards are held at the Waldorf-Astoria

    ICP opened a Midtown branch at International Paper Plaza, 77 West 45th Street, with an inaugural show drawn from its own collection. In the same year it held the first Infinity Awards, which honor achievement in photography, at the Waldorf-Astoria. ICP moved to a larger space at 1133 Avenue of the Americas in 1989 under the sponsorship of Eastman Kodak.

    Source: icp.org

  4. 1992

    The Robert Capa Archive is donated to ICP

    In 1992 the archive of the war photographer Robert Capa came to the center, with more than 3,000 original gelatin silver prints, plus negatives, correspondence and publications. It also included a set of 937 contemporary prints chosen as his most important images. Two years later, ICP received the Weegee archive, which holds about 13,000 prints and 7,000 negatives.

    Source: icp.org

  5. 2016

    June 23

    The ICP museum opens at 250 Bowery after leaving Midtown

    ICP's board decided in 2014 to buy a building on the Bowery close to the New Museum. The Midtown museum shut when its lease ended in January 2015, and the Bowery museum opened on June 23, 2016. The school stayed in Midtown for the time being. ICP later sold the Bowery building and moved to Essex Crossing.

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 2017

    ICP signs a deal to move its museum and school to Essex Crossing

    In 2017 the International Center of Photography signed an agreement with Delancey Street Associates to place its museum and school in Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side. In 2019 it sold its space at 250 Bowery and bought its new home at 79 Essex Street.

    “In 2017, ICP signed a deal with Delancey Street Associates to house its museum and school at Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2020

    January

    ICP opens its combined museum and school at Essex Crossing

    ICP's new home opened at the end of January 2020 and occupies about 40,000 square feet over three stories. It was the first time the museum and the school shared a building since the original Fifth Avenue location. Inside are galleries, darkrooms, shooting studios, digital media labs and a library.

    Source: archpaper.com

  8. 2020

    SHoP designs the building and Gensler the interior, with a double-height gallery lit from the east

    At Essex Crossing, a six-and-a-half-acre development on the Lower East Side's former urban-renewal lots, SHoP Architects designed the building and Gensler designed ICP's interiors. A double-height central gallery gets daylight through a glazed east facade and has a catwalk for viewing from above. A metal-and-wood library is open to members and guests.

    Source: archpaper.com

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