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Two of her photographs from the first Newport Jazz Festival remain in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has also been represented in the [[Rhode Island School of Design Museum]], the Bert Gallery, the [[Newport Art Museum]], and the [[Block Island Historical Society]], among other institutions. |
Two of her photographs from the first Newport Jazz Festival remain in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has also been represented in the [[Rhode Island School of Design Museum]],<ref>RISD Museum of Art exhibition “Urban America, 1930–1970,” Friday, December 1, to February 25 2007 [https://risdmuseum.org/art_design/exhibitions/104_urban_america_1930_1970]</ref> the Bert Gallery, the [[Newport Art Museum]], and the [[Block Island Historical Society]], among other institutions. |
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Carmel Vitullo was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 16, 1925 into the small Italian community of Federal Hill.
Biography
After high school she enrolled in a major in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), but abandoned it for the medium of photography about which she was more passionate. In further study at the New York Institute of Photography[1] she discovered the work of Henri Cartier Bresson and she continued to be an exponent and practitioner of street photography. A majority of her photographs depict the neighbourhood of Rhode Island in the 1950s and the first Newport Jazz Festival.
Recognition
Edward Steichen selected her photograph of displaced refugees at Grand Central Terminal en route to a relocation centre, for the Museum of Modern Art world-touring exhibition The Family of Man, which was seen by 9 million visitors. Her print was exhibited in the section ‘Rebels’ at the end of a row of six, hard against the adjoining wall,[2] in sympathy with the entrapment of the subjects who are seated, frieze-like, along a bench parallel to the picture plane. In front of them are their labelled suitcases stacked on a cart. Disquieting, confusing spots of light from the skylight fall across the scene and add to the pervasive anxiety evident in the expressions of the men, women, and children. The inclusion in The Family of Man and its acompanying catalogue[3] (which has never been out of print) came as a breakthrough for Vitullo.
Collections
Two of her photographs from the first Newport Jazz Festival remain in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her work has also been represented in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,[4] the Bert Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, and the Block Island Historical Society, among other institutions.
References
- ^ NYIP Famous Alumni [1]
- ^ Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3, 133-156
- ^ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
{{cite book}}:|author6=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ RISD Museum of Art exhibition “Urban America, 1930–1970,” Friday, December 1, to February 25 2007 [2]