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Benedict Fernandez taught in the New School’s photography department in the 1960’s. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Benedict Fernandez, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Benedict J Fernandez's "In Opposition: Images of American Dissent in the Sixties" is a kind of pictorial primer of protest, both for and against whatever the cause-Vietnam, fair housing, white or black power , student sit ins. "
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" With every year that passes, Berenice Abbott looks more and more like what she is-one of the great irreducible Americans and one who will be remembered as long as there is anyone around who wants to know what America stood for and what manner of people Americans were. "
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" For the first time, too, the words of "We Shall Overcome" began to acquire reality for opponents of segregation in the Deep South. "
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Multi-talented George Pitts taught photography at Parsons for two decades, from 1998 until his untimely death in 2017. He came to Parsons as the revolutionary, founding Director of Photography at Vibe magazine, where he worked from 1993 to 2004. He also served as the Director of Photography at LIFE magazine from 2004 to 2007. His […]
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Bob Adelman took photography classes with Alexey Brodovitch at the New School in the 1950s and became one of the photographers regularly documenting the life of the New School in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] He also taught photography courses at the school, including “Thinking Images and Innovative Images” from 1976 to 1977, and “Photo […]
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American Photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was best known for her preservation of modern art and her documentation of New York’s ever-changing landscape. After studying at Ohio State University for one year, Abbott moved to New York City in 1918 and began to focus on various forms of art, which included sculpture and drawing. Abbott’s interests […]