Monroe Gallery of Photography

Monroe Gallery specializes in photography that embodies the universal understanding and importance of photojournalism. . Monroe Gallery actively engages in social media topics includings art, media, journalism, photography, ethics, exhibitions, and related photography news. www.monroegallery.com follow http://twitter.com/Monroegallery like http://www.facebook.com/monroegallery

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Photographer, 99, captures ‘beauty of life’ — from WWII to haute couture

He’s seen the world from all angles.

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Bill Eppridge’s Vibrant Portrait of America in the 1960s — Blind Magazine

A new exhibition charts the legacy of a photojournalist who chronicled the nation during a turbulent era.

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“The Legacy Of Bill Eppridge” now on exhibit. Gallery talk on Zoom tonight with his wife, longtime collaborator and Director of his archive, Adrienne Aurichio - link and exhibit www.monroegallery.com

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Happy Birthday Leonard Cohen, photographed here in Nashville in 1968 by the great Tony Vaccaro

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60 years ago today, On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared “We Choose To Go To The Moon”

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9/11 - In Remembrance

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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article264541661.html

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Exhibition Review: IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT PHOTOJOURNALISM at Monroe Gallery — Musée Magazine

This exhibition highlights photojournalists spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, from World War II to the recent January Insurrection.

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Tony Vaccaro: Kiss of Liberation: Sergeant Gene Costanzo kneels to kiss a little girl during spontaneous celebrations in the main square of the town of St. Briac, France, August 15, 1944

Archival pigment print, please contact the Gallery for information

“Oh, you know, this photo is almost an accident. A happy accident dated August 15, 1944. That day, Saint-Briac, liberated by General Patton’s 83rd Infantry Division, was won over by popular jubilation. On the Place du Center, we take out the accordion, a party is improvised. A circle is formed. A man has to go get a woman and the two people have to kiss each other on a mat in the center of the circle. Then it’s the woman’s turn to choose a man and take him to the center mat. I was in the square, across the street. And there, I recognize this American soldier, my friend Gene Constanzo, crouching and kissing a little girl in the middle of a group of young girls dancing around him." --Tony Vaccaro

This photograph is in the exhibition "Imagine A World Without Photojournalism", on view through September 18. Tony Vaccaro will celebrate his 100th birthday in December, follow here for news of a major exhibition to celebrate the centennial of Tony Vaccaro

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Celebrating 20 Years in Santa Fe 

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August 7, 1964, Mississippi. Ben Chaney and his mother at the funeral mass for his older brother, civil rights worker James Chaney who had been killed along with Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on June 21, 1964. Photographed by Bill Eppridge. The bodies of the three civil rights workers were found on August 4, 1964 buried in an earthen dam on private property. The FBI received a tip from an informant. While searching for the 3 missing men, the FBI had dredged all the ponds in the area and found several other bodies that might never have been discovered. The story about these murders became a fictional movie in 1988 - Mississippi Burning based on the murder investigation. Forty five years later on June 21, 2005 Edgar Ray Killed a KKK organizer was found guilty on three counts of manslaughter for arranging the murders. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison. September 30, 2022 - a new exhibit of Bill Eppridge's work at Monroe Gallery of Photography