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* 1968, 7–27 May: 40 photographs, most from the 1960s, by 40 contemporary photographers from the Museum of Modern Art, New York: including Americans [[Claudia Andujar]], Donald Blumberg, Michael Ciavolino, William Current, [[Bruce Davidson (photographer)|Bruce Davidson]], Bill Hanson, [[Charles Harbutt]], [[Dave Heath]], [[Kenneth Josephson]], Simpson Kalisher, Irwin Klein, Chuck Levey, [[Nathan Lyons]], [[Duane Michals]], [[Sylvia Plachy]], Charles Pratt, [[Art Sinsabaugh]], [[David Vestal]], [[Garry Winogrand]] and Thomas Stone Zimmerman; Italians Mario Carrier, Tranquillo Casiraghi, Carlo Cisventi, [[Mario Giacomelli]], and Federico Patellani;  French photographer [[Édouard Boubat|Edouard Boubat]], and the German, Hein Gravenhorst. Braddock Junior High School<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 May 1968 |title=Photograph Display At School Here: Braddock Junior High Has Exhibit From New York |pages=4 |work=Cumberland Evening Times |location=Cumberland, Maryland}}</ref>
* 1968, 7–27 May: 40 photographs, most from the 1960s, by 40 contemporary photographers from the Museum of Modern Art, New York: including Americans [[Claudia Andujar]], Donald Blumberg, Michael Ciavolino, William Current, [[Bruce Davidson (photographer)|Bruce Davidson]], Bill Hanson, [[Charles Harbutt]], [[Dave Heath]], [[Kenneth Josephson]], Simpson Kalisher, Irwin Klein, Chuck Levey, [[Nathan Lyons]], [[Duane Michals]], [[Sylvia Plachy]], Charles Pratt, [[Art Sinsabaugh]], [[David Vestal]], [[Garry Winogrand]] and Thomas Stone Zimmerman; Italians Mario Carrier, Tranquillo Casiraghi, Carlo Cisventi, [[Mario Giacomelli]], and Federico Patellani;  French photographer [[Édouard Boubat|Edouard Boubat]], and the German, Hein Gravenhorst. Braddock Junior High School<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 May 1968 |title=Photograph Display At School Here: Braddock Junior High Has Exhibit From New York |pages=4 |work=Cumberland Evening Times |location=Cumberland, Maryland}}</ref>
* 1968, 9 February–31 March: ''Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition''. MoMA<ref name=":1" />
* 1968, 9 February–31 March: ''Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition''. MoMA<ref name=":1" />
* 1967, July: Summer show: 217 photographs by 12 photographers of the American social landscape [[Bruce Davidson (photographer)|Bruce Davidson]], [[Robert Frank]], [[Lee Friedlander]], [[Ralph Gibson]], Warren Hill, Rudolph Janu, Simpson Kalisher, [[Danny Lyon]], James Marchael, [[Duane Michals]], Philip Perkis and Tom Zimmerman. [[Addison Gallery of American Art|Addison Gallery]], Phillips Academy, Andover, from Poses Institute of Fine Arts, [[Brandeis University]]
* 1967, July: Summer show: ''12 photographers of the American social landscape,'' 217 photographs by [[Bruce Davidson (photographer)|Bruce Davidson]], [[Robert Frank]], [[Lee Friedlander]], [[Ralph Gibson]], Warren Hill, Rudolph Janu, Simpson Kalisher, [[Danny Lyon]], James Marchael, [[Duane Michals]], Philip Perkis and Tom Zimmerman. [[Addison Gallery of American Art|Addison Gallery]], Phillips Academy, Andover, from Poses Institute of Fine Arts, [[Brandeis University]]
* 1967, 9 January–12 February: ''12 photographers of the American social landscape'' : Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Warren Hill, Rudolph Janu, Simpson Kalisher, Danny Lyon, James Marchael, Duane Michals, Philip Perkis, and Tom Zimmermann. [[Rose Art Museum]], Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Poses Institute of Fine Arts and Rose Art Museum |title=12 Photographers of the American Social Landscape : Bruce Davidson Robert Frank Lee Friedlander Ralph Gibson Warren Hill Rudolph Janu Simpson Kalisher Danny Lyon James Marchael Duane Michals Philip Perkis and Tom Zimmermann |publisher=October House |year=1967 |oclc=226488294}}</ref>
* 1965/6, 6 October 1965–9 January 1966: ''Recent Acquisitions'': Photography. MoMA <ref name=":1" />
* 1965/6, 6 October 1965–9 January 1966: ''Recent Acquisitions'': Photography. MoMA <ref name=":1" />
* 1965, 16 March–16 May: ''The Photo Essay''. MoMA<ref name=":1" />
* 1965, 16 March–16 May: ''The Photo Essay''. MoMA<ref name=":1" />

Revision as of 03:46, 16 September 2022

For the unrelated American photojournalist of a similar surname, see Clemens Kalischer.

Simpson Kalisher (American, born 27 July 1926) is an American photojournalist and street photographer.

Early Life

Simpson Kalisher was born on 27 July 1926 in The Bronx, New York City,[1] the youngest son of Sheva and Ben Kalisher and brother of Fay and Murray. They were living in Barnes Avenue in 1939. After one year of college, Kalisher was drafted into the military aged 18 in October 1944 for WW2 and was admitted to military hospital briefly in August 1945.

Photographer

Kalisher was a commercial photographer, photographing for example in 1963 for Texas Co. for an article on the oil industry of the Kalispell area,[2] and a later client was was the Salvation Army for whom he produced a series of gritty vignettes.[3] He was awarded a Gold Medal for a Cabot Corporation annual report in the Editorial category of The 21st annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of Boston.[4]

He also undertook independent projects which he published in book form, exhibited, and which were included in major Museum of Modern Art surveys including The Family of Man (1955) and Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 (1978).[5][6]

Kalisher's 1961 book, Railroad Men: A Book of Photographs and Collected Stories with 44 duotone plates of men at work on trains and in railway yards in a period of decline for that form of transport, was produced from pictures for an unpublished magazine assignment. He funded the project himself and used a Leica and tape recorder. The photographs were accompanied by 44 interviews recorded by the photographer.[7][8][9] The series has been shown frequently and is in the collections of a number of major American museums.

Kalisher followed Railroad Men with two more photographic books, Propaganda and Other Photographs (1976)[10] and The Alienated Photographer (2011).[11]

Kalisher was listed in a document with other photographers Garry Winogrand, Hans Namuth, Harry Callahan, Roy De Carava, amongst numbers of artists and musicians as attending a public meeting of the National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy in Madison Square Garden on 19 May 1960. The document was used in the 1960 Senate inquiry "Communist Infiltration in the Nuclear Test Ban Movement.[12]

Reception

Reviewing Railroad Men in 1962 curator Hugh Edwards likened it to the work of Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, and W. Eugene Smith, as promoting “those ancient qualities, human dignity and character.”[13]

In a review of Kalisher's show at the Art Institute of Chicago, Edith Weigle wrote

“Kalisher's pictures are art because they are direct, honest, and powerful. They are powerful because of the photographer's ability to get at the essentials and to comprehend and portray the character of each man. Nonessentials are stripped away. The only "special effects" are the deep shadows which are there by nature and the photographer's use of empty space, which seems innate.[14]

In reviewing Kalisher’s retrospective at De Lellis Gallery in 2011, The New Yorker notes that his pictures “share a casually incisive style with Garry Winogrand’s, Tod Papageorge’s, and Joel Meyerowitz’s pictures of the city…but Kalisher worked primarily on the street, yielding photographs that are anecdotal and full of characters” William Meyers reviewing the same show in the Wall Street Journal of 22 October 2011,[15] remarks on Kalisher's ability to make the ordinary extraordinary;

"Simpson Kalisher ... is one of the street photographers who made midtown Manhattan as critical a site for mid-20th-century photography as the forest of Arden was for Shakespearean comedy. In a picture taken in 1959, the camera looks north up Fifth Avenue as the traffic light changes and a massed wave of pedestrians steps off the curb to cross West 51st Street. Nothing unusual is happening in this picture, there are no freaks or confrontations, but our eye keeps moving left to right and then right to left across the line of faces approaching us: The ordinariness of these people is quite stunning. The men and women look straight ahead as they march single-mindedly toward us and their destinations. It is not really us, of course, but Mr. Kalisher who is headed in the other direction."[15]

The highest price paid for a print by Kalisher at auction is $1,875 USD for an untitled work made c.1949-1950, sold at Christie's New York in 2010.

Teaching and industry contributions

In 1962 Kalisher was elected alternate secretary of the American Society of Magazine Photographers.[16][17]

In September 1974 he was one of the presenters, with Jerry Uelsman, Beaumont Newhall, Joseph Costa, Lillian Bassman, and Bruce Davidson of a workshop, based on his book on New York City, in the University of Wisconsin Extension course, "Study with the Masters”[18] and in which he was described as “a professional photographer who has published in most of the major national magazines.”[19]

During a solo show of pictures from his book Propaganda and Other Photographs co-exhibited with Roy Stryker: The Humane Propagandist of photographs by a selection of the people who documented the New Deal programs under Roy Stryker, Kalisher delivered a lecture on 28 September 1978 on his work and its relationship to the tradition of photography as social literature[20]

He participated with other artists, and with art administrators, in the Consortium for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts "Work Sessions" at Real Art Ways, 197 Asylum St., the fourth of the Art Jobs Il September Series of conferences around the state dealing with marketing of artwork, legal protections, and surviving in business.[21]

Also at The Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon he conducted a portfolio review.[22]

Personal life

Kalisher’s son Jesse, after a career in advertising, also became a photographer,[23] and operates his own gallery

Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2011: Simpson Kalisher: The Alienated Photographer, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, River Oaks, Houston, Texas, USA
  • 2001, May-August: The City Seen: Simpson Kalisher Photographs. Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., Syracuse[24]
  • 1984, to June–2 September: Simpson Kalisher Railroad Men, photographs of rail workers. Akron Art Museum[25]
  • 1980, 11 August–30 September: Photographs by Simpson Kalisher of Roxbury, and photographs from two of Kalisher's books, "Railroad Men, Photographs and Collected Stories" and "Propaganda and other Photographs." Voltaire Gallery, New Milford[26][27]
  • 1978, 6 September–8 October: Photography as social literature: concurrent shows of documentary photography by Roy Stryker and Simpson Kalisher. Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon Park North[28]
  • 1962, 1 September–7 October: Simpson Kalisher, 60 photographs. Art Institute Chicago[29]
  • 1961, October: Simpson Kalisher. Eastman House[30]

Group

  • 2020: New York Stories: Vintage Postwar Photographs, Keith de Lellis Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • 2019: Moves Like Walter: New Curators Open the Corcoran Legacy Collection, American University Museum,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • 2017: Picture The Word: A group exhibition of Vintage Photographs. Keith de Lellis Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • 2014: Art & Industry, Keith de Lellis Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • 2014, August: Street Life. Keith de Lellis Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • 2014, February: The Image Gallery Redux 1959-1962. Howard Greenberg Gallery 41 East 57th Street New York[31]
  • 1995/6, December–January: Black-and white photographs of New York City dating from the forties through the sixties by David Attie, Donald Blumberg, Simpson Kalisher, Fritz Neugass, and Marvin Newman. James Danziger Gallery, 130 Prince St. New York[32]
  • 1978, 26 July–2 Oct: Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.[5]
  • 1976, 11 January–22 February: The Camera's Century: The American Situation. 88 photographs. Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill[33]
  • 1971, 2 April: Steichen Gallery Reinstallation. MoMA[5]
  • 1968, 7–27 May: 40 photographs, most from the 1960s, by 40 contemporary photographers from the Museum of Modern Art, New York: including Americans Claudia Andujar, Donald Blumberg, Michael Ciavolino, William Current, Bruce Davidson, Bill Hanson, Charles Harbutt, Dave Heath, Kenneth Josephson, Simpson Kalisher, Irwin Klein, Chuck Levey, Nathan Lyons, Duane Michals, Sylvia Plachy, Charles Pratt, Art Sinsabaugh, David Vestal, Garry Winogrand and Thomas Stone Zimmerman; Italians Mario Carrier, Tranquillo Casiraghi, Carlo Cisventi, Mario Giacomelli, and Federico Patellani;  French photographer Edouard Boubat, and the German, Hein Gravenhorst. Braddock Junior High School[34]
  • 1968, 9 February–31 March: Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition. MoMA[5]
  • 1967, July: Summer show: 12 photographers of the American social landscape, 217 photographs by Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Warren Hill, Rudolph Janu, Simpson Kalisher, Danny Lyon, James Marchael, Duane Michals, Philip Perkis and Tom Zimmerman. Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, from Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University
  • 1967, 9 January–12 February: 12 photographers of the American social landscape : Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Gibson, Warren Hill, Rudolph Janu, Simpson Kalisher, Danny Lyon, James Marchael, Duane Michals, Philip Perkis, and Tom Zimmermann. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.[35]
  • 1965/6, 6 October 1965–9 January 1966: Recent Acquisitions: Photography. MoMA [5]
  • 1965, 16 March–16 May: The Photo Essay. MoMA[5]
  • 1964, 13 February–15 March: Four directions in photography Simpson Kalisher, Oscar Bailey, Charles Swedlund, Minor White. Albright-Knox Art Gallery[36]
  • 1955, 24 January–8 May: The Family of Man. MoMA[5]
  • 1950, 1 August–17 September: Photographs by 51 Photographers. MoMA[5]

Awards

  • LIFE magazine Contest for Young Photographers, Third Honourable Mention, Individual Picture Division[37]
  • Gold Medal for a Cabot Corporation report by Michael Weymouth and Simpson Kalisher of Weymouth Design in the Editorial category of The 21st annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of Boston "Design 1”[4]

Collections

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[38]
  • National Gallery of Art, New York[39]
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[40]
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York[41]

References

  1. ^ New York City Department of Health
  2. ^ "Photography in Kalispell". The Daily Inter Lake. Kalispell, Montana. 15 August 1963. p. 7.
  3. ^ "Full-page advertisement". The Messenger. Madisonville, Kentucky. 10 May 1980. p. 21.
  4. ^ a b Kemp, David (24 March 1975). "Ads/Agencies : Art Directors". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 25.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Simpson Kalisher | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
  6. ^ Galassi, Peter; Sante, Luc (1995). American Photography 1890-1965 from the Museum of Modern Art New York (Clothbound ed.). New York: The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams. pp. 238, 248, 254. ISBN 9780810961432. OCLC 33407649.
  7. ^ "Railroad Men". Popular Photography. 88 (10): 38. October 1981. ISSN 1542-0337.
  8. ^ Kutchinski, Paul (12 March 1962). "Startling Picture Given Of Today's Railroaders". Ledger-Enquirer. Columbus, Georgia. p. 6.
  9. ^ "Book Reviews : Some Human Interest Pictures Of Railroading Men At Work". Daily Independent Journal. San Rafael, California. 14 July 1962. p. 35.
  10. ^ Kalisher, Simpson; Baker, Russell (1976). Propaganda and Other Photographs. Two Penny Press/Addison House. ISBN 9780891690078. OCLC 2346169.
  11. ^ photographer., Kalisher, Simpson, (2011). The alienated photographer. Two Penny Press. ISBN 978-0-578-07134-3. OCLC 726155165.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ United States and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.). Communist Infiltration in the Nuclear Test Ban Movement : Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Eighty-Sixth Congress Second Session. Testimony of Henry H. Abrams of the Greater New York Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. May 13 1960. United States Government Printing Office. 1960. pp. 76–7. OCLC 234096.
  13. ^ Edwards, Hugh (March 1962). "Book review : Railroad Men, by Simpson Kalisher". Infinity: American Society of Magazine Photographers. 11 (3): 20.
  14. ^ Weigle, Edith (9 September 1962). "When There's an Artist". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. p. 108.
  15. ^ a b Meyers, William (22 October 2011). "Arts & Entertainment -- on Photography: Mother of the Unconventional". Wall Street Journal. p. 24.
  16. ^ Kinch, Bart (19 April 1962). "Don't leave flash on camera for top light". The Banning Record Beaumont Gazette. p. 5.
  17. ^ Kinch, Bart (19 April 1962). "Photography". Austin American-Statesman. Austin, Texas. p. 45.
  18. ^ "Photo Masters Give Extension Course". The Capital Times. Madison, Wisconsin. 7 September 1974. p. 15.
  19. ^ "Photography course offered by Extension". Wausau Daily Herald. Wausau, Wisconsin. 7 September 1974. p. 3.
  20. ^ "Photographs Shown; Lecture Announced". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 10 September 1978. p. 18.
  21. ^ "'Sessions' to Treat Artists' Problems". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 24 September 1978. p. 161.
  22. ^ "Coming Up". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 4 July 1980. p. 40.
  23. ^ Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia (25 February 2005). "Storyteller to present own travelogue in Carrboro". The Herald-Sun. Durham, North Carolina. p. 50.
  24. ^ "Regional Exhibits". Star-Gazette. Elmira, New York. 31 May 2001. p. 48.
  25. ^ "Galleries". The Akron Beacon Journal. Akron, Ohio. 7 June 1984. p. 48.
  26. ^ "Galleries". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 10 Aug 1980. p. 137.
  27. ^ Raynor, Vivien (24 August 1980). "Art Photos by Kallisher at New Milford". New York Times.
  28. ^ "Arts Calendar : Exhibits". Record-Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. 2 September 1978. p. 35.
  29. ^ "Camera Club Notes". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 30 August 1962. p. 12.
  30. ^ "listing". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. 22 October 1961. p. 119.
  31. ^ "The Image Gallery Redux: 1959-1962 - Main Gallery & HGG2 - Exhibitions - Howard Greenberg Gallery". www.howardgreenberg.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
  32. ^ "Galleries". New York Magazine. 25 December 1995.
  33. ^ Greenberg, Blue (18 January 1976). "Photos Tell Intimate Tales". The Herald-Sun. Durham, North Carolina. p. 57.
  34. ^ "Photograph Display At School Here: Braddock Junior High Has Exhibit From New York". Cumberland Evening Times. Cumberland, Maryland. 7 May 1968. p. 4.
  35. ^ Poses Institute of Fine Arts and Rose Art Museum (1967). 12 Photographers of the American Social Landscape : Bruce Davidson Robert Frank Lee Friedlander Ralph Gibson Warren Hill Rudolph Janu Simpson Kalisher Danny Lyon James Marchael Duane Michals Philip Perkis and Tom Zimmermann. October House. OCLC 226488294.
  36. ^ Four directions in photography: Simpson Kalisher, Oscar Bailey, Charles Swedlund, Minor White. The Gallery, Buffalo. 1964. OCLC 922650738.
  37. ^ "The winners of the young photographers contest". LIFE. 31 (22): 30. 26 November 1951. ISSN 0024-3019.
  38. ^ "Kalisher, Simpson". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  39. ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  40. ^ "Simpson Kalisher". Museum of Fine Art Houston.
  41. ^ "Simpson Kalisher | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
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