What can a photographer do on a movie set? Beginning with the photographer Weegee's invitation from director Stanley Kubrick to shoot the making of the film Dr. Strangelove, ICP's Creative Director David Campany discusses the rich and overlooked history of independently-minded photographers gaining access to film studios and movie productions. From Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Weston, and Diane Arbus, to William Eggleston, Saul Leiter, and Garry Winogrand, when photographers are free to respond as they wish, what they often make are documents that question or contemplate the nature of cinematic artifice.
Weegee, Cinema, and Beyond is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person in the ICP library are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see current exhibitions Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job: 1940–2011, on view through May 5, 2025.
David Campany is Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York. He has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze.
