JERRY SCHATZBERG – 25TH & PARK
2022-02-14In 1957, only a few short steps from Fotografiska, Jerry Schatzberg set up his legendary studio at 333 Park Avenue South. These few blocks of Park Avenue South would loom large in the histories of US photography, pop music, fashion, cinema, theater, literature, and 1960s New York. The Schatzberg Studio became a veritable salon for dozens of luminaries who passed through its walls—and who were catapulted, by way of Schatzberg’s lens, into icons of the era. Among them were Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Sharon Tate, Catherine Deneuve, and Carmen De Lavallade.
Schatzberg’s mid-century work in fashion and portraiture is no mere reportage. It reveals a playful sensibility, a singular elegance, a streak of unpretentious humor culled from Schatzberg’s childhood years in the Bronx. They betray Schatzberg’s unquenchable, almost maniacal search for glamour, for glimmers that elevate the geniuses of his time out of their accomplishments and into a pictorially extraordinary ordinary.
Opposite – Rolling Stones in Drag, 1966
Exhibition runs through to March 5th, 2022
Fotografiska New York
281 Park Ave South/22nd
New York
NY 10010
