Featured photo for exhibit Tony Vaccaro

Tony Vaccaro

Renaissance

2018-11-23 - 2019-01-27

Santa Fe, NM -- Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to present “Tony Vaccaro: Renaissance” Friday, November 23 through January 27, 2019.

2018 was a renaissance year for Tony Vaccaro, with recent exhibits in New York, London, Italy, and Pottsdam, Germany; culminating with this major exhibition at Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe that celebrates his 96th birthday on December 20. At the age of 21, Tony was drafted into the war, and by the spring of 1944 he was photographing war games in Wales. By June, now a combat infantryman in the 83rd Infantry Division, he was on a boat heading toward Omaha Beach, six days after the first landings at Normandy. Denied access to the Signal Corps, Tony was determined to photograph the war, and had his portable 35mm Argus C-3 with him from the start. For the next 272 days, Tony fought on the front lines of the war. He entered Germany in December 1944, a private in the Intelligence Platoon, tasked with going behind enemy lines at night. After the war, Tony remained in Germany to photograph the rebuilding of the country for Stars And Stripes magazine. Returning to the US in 1950, Tony started his career as a commercial photographer, eventually working for virtually every major publication: Look, Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Town and Country, Newsweek, and many more. Tony went on to become one the most sought after photographers of his day.

The Paradise Cortina, Italy, 1947<br/>
Defeated Soldier, Frankfurt, Germany, 1947<br/>
Battle of Ardennes, Near Ottre, Belgium., January,1945<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
White Death, Pvt. Henry Irving Tannebaum Ottre, Belgium 1945<br/>
Newly liberated women in Nante, along the North bank of the Loire River, celebrate their freedom, Nante, France, July, 1944<br/>
French Soldiers at the Carnival of Nice, 1947<br/>
The Violinist, Venice, Italy, 1947<br/>
Water fountain in the piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Italy, 1947<br/>
Waiting For Mom. Two children wait outside a grocery store with the family shopping cart, Hoescht, Germany, 1946. <br/>
"Tired Eyes". Orphans in a sewing class, Trieste, Italy, 1947<br/>
Camera Shy, Bonefro, Italy, 1946<br/>
Old Man, Bonefro, Italy, 1946<br/>
Hitler's Window, Germany, 1945<br/>
The Chimney Sweeper, Frankfurt Germany 1947<br/>
G.I.s on leave, Paris, France, 1947<br/>
A C-54 plane during the Berlin Airlift, Germany, 1949<br/>
Pennsylvania Station, New York, 1948<br/>
PIX Theater, New York, 1947<br/>
Extras on the set of "8 1/2", Lazio, Italy, 1962<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Givenchy by the Pool, South of Paris, France, 1961<br/>
Anna Magnani and Sugar Ray Robinson, Harlem NY 1953<br/>
Givenchy, Paris, France, 1961<br/>
Ali MacGraw, LOOK, NYC 1971<br/>
Ivy Nicholson, Appian Way, Rome, Italy, 1956<br/>
Georgia O'Keeffe and shadow, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1960<br/>
Pablo Picasso, Mougins, France, 1966<br/>
Jackson Pollock painting at his home, East Hampton, 1953<br/>
De Kooning, East Hampton, 1952<br/>
John F Kennedy, Washington, DC, 1960<br/>
Barbara Mullen -  Barbara Mullen, New York, 1951<br/>
Umbrella LOOK magazine, NYC 1951<br/>
Contortionist -  Contortionist, New York City, 1951<br/>
The Veil, for LOOK, New York, 1951<br/>
Mary Jane Russell, for FLAIR, New York, 1951<br/>
Isabella Albonico, Central Park Botanical Gardens, NYC, 1958<br/>
Georgia O'Keeffe, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 1960<br/>
Gwen Verdon, New York City, NY, 1953<br/>
Carmen, Look , Puerto Rico, 1951<br/>
Marimekko, Helskinki, 1965<br/>
Dovima, NYC, 1957<br/>
The Butcher Shop, Tremoli, Italy, 1947<br/>
Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy, 1968<br/>
Guggenheim Hat, New York, 1960<br/>
Sophia Loren, New York,1959<br/>
Kiss of Liberation: Sergeant Gene Costanzo kneels to kiss a little girl during spontaneous celebrations in the main square of the town of St. Briac, France, August 14, 1944<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Machine Gun Fire, Germany, March, 1945<br/>