10th Anniversary of Monroe Gallery
December 21, 2011 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
PHOTOS WORTH 100 WORDS
Steve Schapiro: Martin Luther King, Selma, Alabama, 1965
by Matthew Irwin
In 1983, while serving as the director of a gallery in New York City, Sidney Monroe curated the first show for the great Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. The two talked about the lack of photo-journalist exhibitions, while collectors scooped up Eisenstaedt's prints. Soon after, the Monroe's opened a SoHo gallery dedicated to narrative images taken from real life. "If you remove the event or the history, you often see composition, form, balanceelements you'd find in fine art photography," Monroe says. Then 9.11 wiped out the gallery's neighborhood, so Monroe and his wife, Michelle, moved, as a business decision. Monroe Gallery of Photography has now been in Santa Fe for 10 years, and the Monroes has about as many stories about their business as the photos have about the historical events they depict. (Matthew Irwin)
Holiday/Anniversary Reception: 4-6 pm Friday, Dec. 23. Free.
Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800
Where: Monroe Gallery
Phone: 505-992-0800
Address: 112 Don Gaspar Ave.
Website: http://www.monroegallery.com