BOB ADELMAN
(1930-2016)

Photographs

Bob Adelman (1930 – 2016) was an acclaimed American photographer known for his social documentaries (the struggle for civil rights, New York artists, women’ strike for equality, anti-war demonstrations and other historic photographic essays). The Adelman Archive is held by the Library of Congress. Westwood Gallery NYC presented premiere exhibitions for photographer Bob Adelman during his lifetime and represents the photographs of the Estate of Bob Adelman.

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'NEW YORK ARTISTS' SERIES

For decades, Bob Adelman captured some of the greatest New York artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Marisol, and many other NY artists. Bob spent extensive time photographing the cultural milieu that passed through Andy Warhol's Factory, as well as openings and interactions in the Leo Castelli Gallery, large-scale murals painted by Roy Lichtenstein, and historic New York art world scenes.

Andy Warhol wearing sunglasses poses in a foil-covered room at the Factory, 1965

Andy Warhol reads newspaper in front of open door to fire escape, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol with “Most Wanted Man No. 2, John Victor G.” black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol looking into movie camera eyepiece and biting his fingernails, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol with Kevin McCarthy and Marisol Escobar at a party, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol wearing sunglasses walks up fire escape towards the viewer, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol talking on a pay phone at the Factory, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol poses in sunglasses, striped shirt, and jacket in front of brick wall, 1965

Andy Warhol pushing shopping cart with Brillo pads in a supermarket, 1965

Andy Warhol, standing, and Gerard Malanga, sitting, in a foil-covered bathroom, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol laying on floor behind 12 silkscreen prints from ‘An American Man,’ 1965

Andy Warhol standing in front of red, yellow, and white ‘Flower’ paintings and sculpture, 1965

Andy Warhol poses in foil-covered bathroom with single light bulb, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol posing with 2 portrait lighting bulbs, black and white, 1965

Andy Warhol laying down on red modern couch with ‘Jackie’ silkscreen print in background, 1965

Andy Warhol crouched in a supermarket aisle holding Campbell’s soup cans next to shopping cart, 1965

PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN

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Roy Lichtenstein poses in front of “Large Interior with Three Reflections,” 1993

Roy Lichtenstein in front of “Brushstrokes” (1965), 1993

Roy Lichtenstein in silhouette working on the maquettes for the Times Square Mural, 1990

Roy Lichtenstein opens yellow double doors at his New York City studio, 1980s

Roy Lichtenstein’s hand holding a paintbrush paints one of many red Ben-Day dots, 1986

Roy Lichtenstein on ladder in front of his mural at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1989

Roy Lichtenstein on ladder in front of “Bauhaus Stairway; Large Version” mural, Los Angeles, 1989

Roy Lichtenstein poses with large white triangle in front of “Perfect Painting #1”, 1985

Roy Lichtenstein poses below a black sculpture of a sleeping head, 1983

Roy Lichtenstein poses in front of his “Greene Street Mural,” New York City, 1983

Roy Lichtenstein in front of his Greene Street Mural, New York City, 1983

PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAMES ROSENQUIST

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James Rosenquist sweeps the sidewalk in front of his mural “Star Thief,” 1981

James Rosenquist holding a magnifying glass which produces a smaller image of his face, 1980

James Rosenquist at his studio painting “Fahrenheit 1982 Degrees,” 1981

James Rosenquist holding his painting “Big Bo” in front of his upper body, 1981

James Rosenquist painting “Fahrenheit 1982 Degrees” in his studio, 1981

James Rosenquist smoking next to his painting “Big Bo” (1966), black and white, 1980s

PHOTOGRAPHS OF TOM WESSELMANN

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Tom Wesselmann poses in his studio between panels of a painting of a nude woman, 1988

Tom Wesselmann in his studio with his cut-metal sculpture “Bedroom Blonde with Necklace,” 1988

Tom Wesselmann looks at a sculpture from the ‘Mouth’ series, black and white, 1966

Tom Wesselmann with artwork from ‘Great American Nude’ series, black and white, 1966

Tom Wesselmann drawing model Monica Serra in the nude, black and white, 1966

Tom Wesselmann holding his cut-metal sculpture of a nude “Steel Drawing/Monica Lying,” 1988

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, 1960s

During the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s, Bob Adelman's passion for social justice fueled his belief that images revealing the situation -- segregation, poverty, neglect -- might effect change. By volunteering his services as a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he captured events that re-shaped modern American history. Adelman photographed not only the moments of civil and social unrest, the marches and riots in New York, Washington D.C. and the deep South, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and the protesters being water-hosed in Birmingham, Alabama, but also the fabric of everyday life. He traveled through rural areas and city ghettos to document the black community in sorrow and in joy, capturing images of successful musicians, sports figures, educators and one of the early African-American sheriffs elected under the Voting Rights Act in Alabama. These images of a transformative time are as poignant and heartening today as when Adelman first captured them.

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Man holding sign reading “NOW!” at 1964 March on Washington, D.C., black and white, 1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. and wife Coretta leading the march on Montgomery, Alabama, black and white, 1965

Martin Luther King, Jr. giving a speech inside a church in front of a microphone, black and white, 1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. and wife Coretta leading marchers into Montgomery, Alabama, black and white, 1965

Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. facing to the left, black and white, 1965

Portrait of a woman wearing a large sign reading “FREEDOM,” black and white, circa 1968

Woman kneels on ground at construction site in front of two policemen, black and white, 1963

Two white policemen putting handcuffs on a young black woman in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

Woman sitting in back of police car behind store, Birmingham, Alabama, black and white, 1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. raises hand while giving speech in Washington, D.C., black and white, 1963

Elderly Black woman wearing patterned blouse looks out at the viewer, black and white, 1966

Young Black boy looks out at viewer from beneath poster of Abraham Lincoln, black and white, 1963

A pair of hands fills in a voting ballot with a pencil, black and white, 1966

A crowd holding protest signs in front of the Washington Memorial, black and white, 1963

Elderly Black man wearing a hat receives a registered voter button, black and white, 1962

A partially-obscured young Black child sitting and looking at the viewer, black and white, 1964

Four children sit in the back of a car and look at the viewer, black and white, 1963

Four young Black boys sitting in front of boarded window which reads “Freedom is Near,” 1965

Three young boys holding baseball equipment stand in front of a house, black and white, circa 1968

Five young boys in church suits standing in front of barbecue restaurant on Easter, circa 1969

Malcolm X holds a newspaper which reads “To Unite!” at a civil rights demonstration, 1963

Demonstrators being sprayed with a fire hose, black and white, 1963

Two children peek through a mail slot in a door labeled ’23,’ black and white, 1964

Two protestors hold up another protestor in front of a demonstration, black and white, 1963

Young man holding two signs with racist messages outside the White House, black and white, circa 1962

Biography

BIOGRAPHY

"Adelman has moved beyond the familiar clichés of most documentary photography into that rare sphere wherein technical ability and social vision combine to create a work of art."

- Ralph Ellison

Photographer Bob Adelman (1930-2016) captured historic and artistic photographs for sixty years. His extraordinary visual documentation covered subjects from the civil rights movement, the New York art scene, urban culture, social essays, politics, music, the South, and revealing portraits of personalities.

An internationally-recognized photojournalist, Bob Adelman worked for LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, TIME, Esquire, Vanity Fair, London's Sunday Times Magazine, Paris Match, and other major publications. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Grantee. He is primarily known for his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, when he volunteered his services as a photographer to the Congress of Racial Equality and captured the transformative events that re-shaped modern American history. Adelman’s images were exhibited worldwide during his lifetime, in institutions including: Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, Getty Museum, High Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and many others. Acquired by the Library of Congress in 2017, the Adelman archive is regarded as the foremost documentation of crucial periods in modern US history.

EXHIBITIONS

Adelman 3 Exhibition

WARHOL B&W, 1950s-80s

2022, APR 9 - JUN 18

WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC

BOB ADELMAN: NEW YORK ARTISTS

2018, JAN 9 - MAR 24

WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC

Click to view our 2018 exhibition, Bob Adelman: New York Artists at Westwood Gallery

BOB ADELMAN: MINE EYES HAVE SEEN
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

2008, FEB - APR
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC

Click to view our 2008 exhibition Bob Adelman: Mine Eyes Have Seen at Westwood Gallery NYC

SELECTED OFFSITE EXHIBITIONS

ANDY WARHOL: SUBJECT AND SERIALITY

2018, JUL 22 - DEC 23
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC

EXHIBITION HISTORY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 - Westwood Gallery NYC, New York: New York Artists: Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Wesselmann

2014 - NSU Art Museum: The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography

2008 - Westwood Gallery NYC: Mine Eyes Have Seen: Photographs of the Struggle for Civil Rights

2005 - Margaret Mitchell House and Museum, Atlanta, GA: KING: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 - Public History Project at the Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Resists

2018 - Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, New York: Andy Warhol: Subject and Seriality

2018 - Westwood Gallery NYC, New York: Andy Warhol: Unique Studio Screenprints, 1980s

2016 - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA: This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

2015 - Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN: This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

2015 - The Florida Holocaust Museum: Images of the Civil Rights Movement

2015 - Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC, New York: Land Lines, Photographs by Margaret Bourke White, Bruce Davidson, James Karales, Joel Meyerowitz, Bob Adelman, Gary Winograd, Dan Weiner

2015 - Gagosian Gallery, NYC, New York: Roy Lichtenstein’s Greene Street Mural, 1983

2014 - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA: Signs of Protest: Photography from the Civil Right Era

2013 - Library of Congress, Washington D.C.: A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

2013 - Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site: Mine Eyes Have Seen

2013 - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA: The Whole World was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from the Menil Collection

2013 - Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC, New York: 1963, Photographs by Bob Adelman, Bruce Davidson, Gordon Parks, James Karales, Eliot Elisofon

2012 - Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS: This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

2011 - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX: The Whole World was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from the Menil Collection

2010 - Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY: Road to Freedom

2008 - High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA: Road to Freedom

2008 - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL: I Shot Warhol, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Indiana

2008 - J.P. Getty Museum, Malibu, CA

1998 - Smithsonian American History Museum: We Shall Overcome: Photographs from America’s Civil Rights Era

Adelman 4 News

SELECTED NEWS

Click to read New York Artists by Bob Adelman in Musee Magazine, Feb 13, 2018

New York Artists by Bob Adelman at Westwood Gallery

Musee Magazine | February 13, 2018

Click to read NYC Gallery Scene, Highlights in Hamptons Art Hub, Jan 16, 2018

NYC Gallery Scene, Highlights Through January 21st, 2018

Hamptons Art Hub | January 16, 2018

Click to read Bob Adelman, 85, photographer who covered Civil Rights in AMNY, Mar 31, 2016

Bob Adelman, 85, photographer who covered Civil Rights, M.L.K.

AMNY | March 31, 2016

Click to read Bob Adelman Dies at 85 in The New York Times, Mar 22, 2016

Bob Adelman, Whose Vivid Photos Captured Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 85

The New York Times | March 22, 2016

The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography

NSU Art Museum | January 19, 2014

Ruby Dee Reads From MLK, Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam" at Westwood Gallery NYC

Getty Images | April 4, 2008

Adelman 5 Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Civil Rights Struggle
Bob Adelman

BOB ADELMAN (1930-2016)

BIOGRAPHY ​​

EXHIBITIONS

WARHOL B&W, 1950s-80s

BOB ADELMAN: NEW YORK ARTISTS

BOB ADELMAN: MINE EYES HAVE SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

SELECTED OFFSITE EXHIBITIONS

ANDY WARHOL: SUBJECT AND SERIALITY

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SELECTED NEWS ​

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ​​

BOB ADELMAN
(1930-2016)

BIOGRAPHY

BOB ADELMAN: MINE EYES HAVE SEEN
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

SELECTED NEWS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS