FRED W. MCDARRAH – PRIDE & PROTEST
2024-07-15Pride and Protest represents a view of gay cultural life and the gay rights movement in New York City, from the period before the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and continuing through activist protests around the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Longtime Greenwich Village photographer Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) was the first picture editor and staff photographer for the legendary New York City newspaper The Village Voice. His book The Artist’s World in Pictures, coauthored with Thomas B. Hess, documents the New York art world during the late 1950s. The earliest of the exhibition’s 61 works are portraits of renowned poets Frank O’Hara in 1959, and W.H. Auden in 1966. One of McDarrah’s most famous images captures the exhilaration and determination of the young rebels who instigated the Stonewall rebellion on June 28, 1969, a turning point in the struggle for gay rights. Included in the exhibition are pictures of protests, marches, and key figures of the gay rights movement in all its contentious and celebratory public display.
Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2024
The Center for Photography at Woodstock – CPW
474 Boadway
Kingston
NY 12401
