Forging Portraiture: November 19, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Photographs by Marcel Sternberger & Matthew Morrocco

November 19, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Opening Reception: November 19, 6 pm
10 West 18th St., 7th Floor New York, NY

Forging Portraiture: A Contemporary Look at Modern Photography opens tomorrow, November 19! I hope you will join us for an opening reception from 6-8 PM, where we'll celebrate the work of Marcel Sternberger and Matthew Morrocco and enjoy a variety of food and drink. (I would especially like to thank Two Boots Pizza for their support of this event.)

Forging Portraiture compares the work of Marcel Sternberger and the contemporary photographer Matthew Morrocco, who draws from Sternberger’s iconic psychological portraits to create a personal visual legacy in his Mirror Portraits. Inspired by Sternberger's portraits of 20th-century icons like FDR, Frida Kahlo, and Einstein, Morrocco photographed his own friends and colleagues – many of them luminaries in the New York art world such as Salman Toor, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Kimberly Drew.

In Sternberger’s work, we see the great women and men of history as real people, with thoughts and feelings; in Morrocco’s images we see a new generation of people shaping culture come to life. The exhibition compares the work of artists separated by nearly 80 years and asks viewers to think carefully about what a photographic legacy means today.

Creating Careers in Portrait Photography: Thursday, February 1 at 8:00 PM

Thursday, February 1, 8:00 PM
The National Arts Club: 15 Gramercy Park S New York, NY 10003
How do portrait photographers, who often begin their careers in commercial settings, move beyond creating mere likenesses to produce culturally defining art? Authors, antiquitarian book specialists, rare photography dealers and experts Stephan and Jacob Loewentheil will discuss this process by examining two portrait photographers from very different eras: Matthew Brady (1822-1896) and Marcel Sternberger (1899-1956).
Pictured (left): Albert Einstein by Marcel Sternberger, 1950, Princeton, New Jersey. Pictured (right): Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady
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The Photographs of Marcel Sternberger: Portraits of the 20th Century - Oct 6 to Nov 3

Jacob Loewentheil with Diego Gómez Pickering, Consul General of Mexico, and Caterina Toscano Gómez-Robledo, Executive Director of Mexican Cultural Institute of New York

Jacob Loewentheil with Diego Gómez Pickering, Consul General of Mexico, and Caterina Toscano Gómez-Robledo, Executive Director of Mexican Cultural Institute of New York

Opening Reception: Thursday October 5, 6-8 pm

Panel Discussion by Contemporary Portraitists: Thursday October 12, 6:30-8 pm

Curator's Talk: Thursday October 19, 6-7 pm

Curated by Jacob Loewentheil

On view Oct 6 through Nov 3
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College
135 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
Gallery Hours:  Monday-Friday 2-7 pm 

The Portraits of Marcel Sternberger: Icons of the 20th Century - March 28 to April 24

Including photographs of Albert Einstein, Frida Kahlo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, and others.
Opening Reception March 28, 2017. 7-9pm. Brunch and Curator Talk: April 15. 11 am-3:30pm.
Presented by Jacob Loewentheil, Curator of The Marcel Sternberger Collection.
On view March 28 - April 24, 2017: PRPH Rare Books, 26 East 64th Street, 3rd Floor, New York City

New York Public Library Art Talk: Wednesday December 7, 6-7:30 pm

Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 6 - 7:30 p.m. First come, first served - online registration opens 11/09/2016.
The talk will include a short biography of Dr. Sternberger, a presentation of his portrait photographs of both famous and everyday people, a description of his psychological technique, and a reading from the recently published The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography.
This lecture was organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.