Hommage to Marvin E. Newman (1927-2023)

Exhibition: February 17 - April 6, 2024
Opening: February 17, 2 – 8pm

Marvin E. Newman, who passed away on September 13, 2023, photographed everything from street photography to advertising and sports commissions, nightlife and fashion. Les Douches la Galerie, which had the pleasure of presenting his first solo show in France, in 2018, wanted to pay tribute to him, a few months after his death, with this exhibition of photographs taken in color, mainly in New York.

This city, where he was born in 1927, was undoubtedly one of his favorite playgrounds, along with Chicago, where he settled to study at the Institute of Design (ID) between 1949 and 1952, alongside Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. An inquisitive man, open to the world and never taking himself too seriously, Marvin E. Newman was above all a storyteller. Through his work, the history of American photography from the post-war years to the present day unfolds before our eyes.

BIOGRAPHY

1927
Marvin Newman was born on December 5 in the Bronx, New York City.

1943
Studies sculpture and photography at the Brooklyn College, with Walter Rosenblum, member of the Photo League.

1948
Briefly takes part into the Photo League.

1949
Moves to Chicago where he studies at the Institute of Design, New Bauhaus.

1951
Earns a Master of Science in Photography from the Institute of Design.

1952
Returns to New York.

1954
Has his photographs published in Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Newsweek.

1956
Has his works exhibited alongside Roy DeCarava’s at the Photographer’s Gallery, in New York City.

1963
He photographs Cassius Clay in Miami, Florida.

1983
Newman is appointed president of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)

1995
Has his New York Stories exhibited at the Danziger Gallery, New York.

2006
Solo show, Marvin E. Newman: The First Decade, at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York City.

2009
Earns the Lucie Award for Achievement in Sports Photography.

2017
Marvin E. Newman is published by Taschen.
Group show, Black Chicago, at Les Douches La Galerie.

2018
Solo show, Le goût de la Modernité, at Les Douches la Galerie.

2023
Dies on 13 septembre 2023, in Jersey City, NY, at 95.