BOB ADELMAN
(1930-2016)
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.
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAMES ROSENQUIST
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF TOM WESSELMANN
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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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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
2022, APR 9 - JUN 18
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2018, JAN 9 - MAR 24
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2008, FEB - APR
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
SELECTED OFFSITE EXHIBITIONS
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
SELECTED NEWS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Civil Rights Struggle
Bob Adelman