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FRED
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photographs of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Robert
F. Kennedy and others are among the iconic images of the 1960s.
For many this handful of images defines McDarrah's work. Yet beyond these his
career spans 50+ years and deals with a surprising variety of subjects. One
comes to appreciate that the famous images are but a small part of
his overall achievement.
This exhibition includes select McDarrah portraits of political and cultural
figures 1960s to 1990s. Some have been widely published and exhibited.
Others are little known to the general audience.
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Martin Luther
King, Jr., Washington DC, August 28, 1963
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The cool
studio light and geometry of the image echo Edward Hopper's art.
Photographs of New York artists are a significant component of McDarrah's work.
Subjects include: Alice Neel, Andy Warhol,
Hans Hoffman, Claes Oldenburg, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning,
Marisol, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis and Jasper Johns...
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Edward Hopper at his Studio,
3 Washington Square North, March 7, 1962
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Twiggy, Hotel Pierre, NYC,
November.
30, 1971
Twiggy, formerly Leslie Lawson, British
model and actress. By age 17 she was
a
sought after international fashion
figure. Twiggy starred in "The Boy Friend"
directed by Ken Russell.
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Frank O'Hara, October 31, 1964.
O'Hara was a founder of the New York
School of Poetry and a curator at the
Museum of Modern Art from 1951 until his
sudden death on July 25, 1966, when he
was struck by a Fire
Island beach taxi.
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Allen Ginsberg at Vietnam Peace Rally,
Fifth Avenue, NYC, March 26, 1966
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An iconic image of the 1960s. This 1966 portrait
of Allen Ginsberg was
widely issued in poster
and postcard formats. It was also adapted to various
other uses, becoming a sort of de facto emblem not only of
Ginsberg personally but the counterculture collectively.
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6 The Beatles, NYC,
August 22, 1966
Ringo, Paul, John and George are seen here
at
the Beatles' first New York City press
conference at
the Warwick Hotel.
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Bette
Midler, Grammy Awards,
March 1, 1975
Bette Midler had chosen to adorn
her hair
with
a 45 rpm record for
the occasion.
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This photograph of Andy Warhol
trying on a vintage bandmaster's uniform was taken at the time of the
performance of "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable" at the Dom on St, Mark's
Place. Warhol's production, featuring the Velvet Underground and NIco, was a
landmark in rock 'n' roll performance history.
McDarrah
extensively photographed Andy Warhol and the Factory milieu in the 1960s and 70s
and continued until Warhol's untimely demise.
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Andy Warhol Trying on a Bandmaster's
Costume at a Vintage Clothing Store on
St. Mark's Place, NYC, December 9, 1966
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9 Andy
Warhol at the Leo Castelli
Gallery, April 1, 1966
Andy Warhol, the
quintessential hipster,
is shown at the opening reception of his
exhibition at the Castelli Gallery, in front of
his famed "Cow Wallpaper."
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Andy
Warhol, Brigid Polk, Cecil
Beaton, the Factory, April 24, 1969
Warhol and Polk
posed for photographer
Cecil Beaton
at the Factory,
Union Square.
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11 Richard M.
Nixon, Madison Square Garden,
NYC, October 31, 1968
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McDarrah has consistently photographed political figures over the years.
This 1968 photograph of Richard M. Nixon is among
his most striking.
Like McDarrah's famous
1967 image of
Robert F. Kennedy
[34]
subsequent events
in the subject's life
impart to the image
a special significance.
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Jimi
Hendrix, Filmore East,
105 Second Avenue, NYC,
May 11, 1968
Photographed on the closing night of rock
impressario Bill Graham's renowned
Fillmore
East, with the Joshua
Light Show
in the background.
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Jimi
Hendrix, Madison Square
Garden, January 27, 1970
Hendrix is seen off the stage at the famous
Winter Festival for Peace benefit concert.
He had taken some bad LSD, became
disgruntled and simply walked off stage.
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One
of many fine photographs taken at Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory.
Jamie Wyeth, son of Andrew Wyeth and a successful artist in his own right, paints strongman Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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14 Arnold
Schwarzenegger Modeling for Jamie Wyeth at
Andy Warhol's Factory on Union Square, NYC, January 14, 1977
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Jack Kerouac reading from "On the Road,"
arms spread wide, standing on a ladder in
a tenement building, illuminated only by
bare fluorescent tubes.
Audience of poets: Ted Joans, Jose Garcia Villa, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Marshall,
Gregory Corso,
Leroi Jones [left to right]
Often called the quintessential image of
Kerouac and the Beat Generation.
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Jack Kerouac Reading a Passage from "On The Road" February 15, 1959
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John
Lennon and Yoko Ono, Avant Garde Festival,
NYC, Nov. 19, 1971
Photographed at a Lennon-Ono performance at the Avant Garde
Festival organized by artist
Charlotte Moorman.
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McDarrah, himself a notable historian of photography,
has long photographed other photographers including Marc Riboud, Helmut
Newton, Gordon Parks, Lisette Model, Duane Michals, Man Ray, Aaron Siskind, James Van Der
Zee and many more.
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19 Robert
Mapplethorpe at his Studio on
Bond Street, NYC, December 22, 1979
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Andy
and Friends at the Andy Warhol
Retrospective, Whitney Museum of
American Art,
NYC,
April 29, 1971
Left to right: Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol,
Ultra Violet and Candy Darling.
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Marianne
Moore, Nov. 25, 1967
Poet Marianne Moore at the re-opening
of the Jefferson
Market Library,
Greenwich Village.
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A charming portrait of New York artist
Alice Neel. Notwithstanding the continuous vagaries of New York art world
fashion Neel held fast to her commitment to figurative painting, yet there
was never a sacrifice of her contemporary edge.
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22 Alice Neel at her
Studio, NYC, February 10, 1961
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W.
H. Auden at
his Apartment,
77 St. Mark's Place, NYC,
January 15, 1966
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Thomas Hoving, Director, Metropolitan
Museum of Art with
John V. Lindsay,
Mayor, NYC,
January 18, 1967
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Norman Bluhm at his 4th Avenue Studio, February 22,
1961
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Artist Norman Bluhm is shown engaged in
"action painting," an offshoot of
Pollock and Abstract Expressionism in which the vigorous physical act of
painting is tantamont to
artistic expression itself.
This photograph served as the cover for
McDarrah's classic 1961 book "The Artist's
World,"
a photo-essay on the artists, dealers, critics, curators, patrons and others
who
made up the New York art world.
"The Artist's World" remains a model of its type.
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Franz
Kline at his Studio,
242 W. 14 Street, April 7, 1961
Kline, one of the
major Abstract
Expressionists, was known for his
black and white paintings, heavily
influenced by Asian
brush-painting.
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Robert
Rauschenberg in
His NYC Loft, Jan. 15, 1961
At the time, Rauschenberg did his cooking on
a
single-burner hotplate. It was the artistically
fertile period of the
"combine" paintings.
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This 1965 photograph of Bob Dylan was first published in a Village Voice
article entitled
"Brecht of the Jukebox, Poet of Electric Guitar."
It became famous after being circulated as a Personality Poster in the
1960s.
McDarrah's spontaneous capture of a then-favorite Dylan gesture [the salute]
has subsequently obtained icon status. It is undoubtedly one of
the
great Bob Dylan photographs.
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Bob Dylan, Sheridan Square Park, NYC, January 22,
1965
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Demonstrators at Grant Park, Chicago, August 27,
1968
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"Anti-war demonstrators
formed a human pyramid at Chicago's Grant Park during the National
Democratic Convention. I have always regarded this as my portrait of
America."
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George
Wallace, Newark, New
Jersey, October 5, 1968
A rally for the segregationist George
Wallace, then governor of Alabama.
In 1972
Wallace's campaign ended
suddenly when an assassin critically
wounded him and left him
paralyzed
below the waist.
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Fidel
Castro, United Nations,
October 12, 1979
Cuban President
Fidel Castro visited
the United States in
1979 and appeared
at
the United Nations to
give a speech.
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A poignant image of Robert F. Kennedy during a tour of a New York slum
tenement building.
Having himself been raised in such a New York tenement building, McDarrah
was able to calculate his vantage point in advance and was positioned to
take the photograph (over the sill of an inner door transom) when RFK passed
by.
Some critics have described this photograph
as McDarrah's masterpiece.
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Robert F. Kennedy,
Lower East Side, NYC, May 8, 1967
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Senator
Robert F. Kennedy,
NYC, June 20, 1966
Photographed at the senator's United
Nations Plaza apartment. On the desk
behind him, a framed photograph
of his elder brother, President John F.
Kennedy.
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Elva
Abbot, Coal Miner,
December 26, 1970
Photographed in Van Meter, West
Viriginia for
a Village Voice article. Like
many of his fellow
coal miners, Elva Abbot was retired because
he had black lungs and
could barely breathe.
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37 David Bowie, Grammy Awards, March 1, 1975
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"I photographed David
Bowie at the
Grammy Awards at the Uris Theatre in
New York City.
As you can see, he has two different
colored eyes. One is blue, the other green.
Bowie has not changed that much in
all these years. He still sings beautifully."
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Charles
Ludlum, NYC, March 13, 1976
Charles Ludlum, actor, director, playwright
and head of New York City's Ridiculous
Theatre Company,
posed for a Village
Voice article.
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Name June Paik, NYC, Sept. 29, 1967
Video and performance artist Nam June Paik is
seen here with a fire bucket over his head
as
he reads poetry on the Staten Island ferry, as
part of the fifth annual Avant Garde
Festival
organized by Charlotte Moorman. During the
1960s, Paik and Moorman
collaborated on
various video/performance projects.
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"Candy Darling was on the set of the David Susskind
TV Show. Candy began life as James Slattery on
Long Island. He became one of Andy's 'superstars'
and was among the best female impersonators in
the theatre. He later died of cancer."
Among Candy Darling's still many admirers this
photo is considered one of the finest portraits.
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40 Candy Darling, NYC, December 7, 1970
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Sal Mineo,
NYC, August 21, 1969
Photographed during one of his New
York City theatre performances.
Sal Mineo was a talented actor.
Unfortunately he was murdered in
West Hollywood
February 12, 1976.
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Janis
Joplin, Fillmore East,
February 4, 1969
Janis Joplin appeared with Big Brother
and the Holding Company.
After the
performance she received a bottle
of Southern Comfort and a bouquet.
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43 Bob Dylan, Sheridan
Square Park, NYC, January 22, 1965
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Photographed during the same session as
the famous Dylan salute
[28]. This photograph
hasn't
achieved the great notoriety of its
counterpart; yet, in retrospect, it seems
equally successful at embodying the
Bob Dylan ethos c.1965.
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Alfred
Hitchcock, NYC, April 25, 1974
The master of suspense cinema photographed at
the Lincoln Film
Society in New York
during a Hitchcock film tribute.
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45 Edie
Sedgwick at the Factory,
Sept. 1, 1965
Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick [second from left]
is seen at a Factory party. She
died in Santa Barbara
in 1971 of a drug overdose.
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The historic 'Stonewall Rebellion' began Friday
night, June 27, 1969 when New York police from Manhattan's Sixth Precinct
raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 53 Christopher Street.
The chalk message on the wall reads:
"To fight for our country, they invaded our rights."
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Stonewall Inn, NYC, June 29, 1969
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Roy Cohn, Friars Club Roast
Luncheon, NYC, Jan. 22, 1980
Roy Cohn was a New York lawyer and
one of the most lurid people in American
politics. He
started out as one of Senator
Joseph McCarthy's assistants in the 1950s,
a sort of
'executioner' who accused people
of Communism. Cohn died of AIDS, 1986.
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Rudolph
Giuliani, Blue Room Press
Conference, City Hall, August 16, 1994
"This was taken at City
Hall where I have
frequently gone to photograph political
events in recent years. Rudy is one of my
favorite subjects because every time you
photograph him he has a different expression."
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Ed
Koch and Ronald Reagan, Gracie Mansion, October 17, 1980
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Mayor
Ed Koch entertained President Ronald Reagan during a Gracie Mansion photo-op.
President Reagan was holding the New York City fiscal budget.
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Muhammad
Ali on Bleecker Street,
March 12, 1963
Heavyweight champion Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
[a.k.a. Muhammad Ali], 21 years old, on
his way to
the Bitter End Night Club at 147 Bleecker Street to
read poetry along with
Howard Ant, Jill Castro,
Kathleen Fraser, Betty Taub, Diana Wakoski,
Doe Lindell.
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