New York City's Silverstein Photography's current exhibition First Contact: A Photographer's Sketchbook explores the creative process of image-making by showing contact sheets alongside iconic photographs from of Magnum Photos's collection. The show "explores the 'decisive moment,' a term defined by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum, as 'the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression."
Elliot Erwitt's New York City, 1974, perfectly captures the spirit of the show and is a treat for dog lovers.
The New Yorker calls the show "engrossing" and lauds it for giving viewers not only an opportunity to "see masters at work...but to second guess them." Inspiring and "educational in the best sense of the word."
Other Photographers include Eve Arnold, Cornell Capa, Robert Capa, Leonard Freed, Paul Fusco, Bruce Gilden, Burt Glinn, Ernst Haas, Erich Hartmann, Constantine Manos, Susan Meiselas, Inge Morath, Eli Reed, George Rodger, David Seymour, Dennis Stock, and Alex Webb from Magnum. And Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Man Ray, and Irving Penn, and Diane Arbus from a private collection. Show runs until August 3.
