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==Exhibitions==
==Exhibitions==

=== Solo ===
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1959: solo show at [[Helen Gee (curator)|Limelight Gallery]], Greenwich Village, New York<ref>{{Citation |author1=Gee, Helen |title=Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir |date=1997 |page=276 |edition=1st |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |isbn=978-0-585-18769-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=29 June 1959 |title=Speaking of pets |pages=11 |work=The Hopewell News}}</ref>

=== Group and joint ===
* 1955: ''[[The Family of Man]]'', MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York
* 1955: ''[[The Family of Man]]'', MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York
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* 1959: solo show at [[Helen Gee (curator)|Limelight Gallery]], Greenwich Village, New York<ref>{{Citation | author1=Gee, Helen | title=Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir | date=1997 | page=276 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-585-18769-3 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=29 June 1959 |title=Speaking of pets |pages=11 |work=The Hopewell News}}</ref>
* 1970, February: Andre Billeci (glass), Linda Plotkin (prints) Harry Lapow (photographs), Mark McKoskey (poetry). Fine art gallery State University College at [[Potsdam, New York|Potsdam]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=10 February 1970 |title=The artist and his art |pages=41 |work=The Post-Standard}}</ref>
* 1970, February: Andre Billeci (glass), Linda Plotkin (prints) Harry Lapow (photographs), Mark McKoskey (poetry). Fine art gallery State University College at [[Potsdam, New York|Potsdam]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=10 February 1970 |title=The artist and his art |pages=41 |work=The Post-Standard}}</ref>
* 1970, 13–30 October: ''Coney Island,'' Lapow and poet Mark McCloskey. [[Ashland University|Ashland College]]<ref name=":1" />
* 1970, 13–30 October: ''Coney Island,'' Lapow and poet Mark McCloskey. [[Ashland University|Ashland College]]<ref name=":1" />
* 1971, March: Photographs by Harry Lapow and poems by Mark MeCioskey. Fine Arts Gallery at the [[State University of New York at Oneonta]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 March 1971 |title=City Life : Photo exhibit |pages=5 |work=The Oneonta Star}}</ref>
* 1971, March: Photographs by Harry Lapow and poems by Mark MeCioskey. Fine Arts Gallery at the [[State University of New York at Oneonta]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 March 1971 |title=City Life : Photo exhibit |pages=5 |work=The Oneonta Star}}</ref>
* 1981, 3 May–6 June: John Brumfield. Harry Lapow, [[Louis Clyde Stoumen|Lou Stoumen]], photography. G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 7224 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 May 1981 |title=Calendar : Art : Opening Today |pages=434 |work=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
* 1981, 3 May–6 June: John Brumfield. Harry Lapow, [[Louis Clyde Stoumen|Lou Stoumen]], photography. G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 7224 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 May 1981 |title=Calendar : Art : Opening Today |pages=434 |work=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
* 1982, 7–31 December: Recent Photographs: Michelle Dearborn and Harry Lapow. FocusGallery, San Francisco<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pontzious |first=Richard |date=6 December 1982 |title=New art exhibits this week |pages=32 |work=The San Francisco Examiner}}</ref>
* 1982, 7–31 December: Recent Photographs: Michelle Dearborn and Harry Lapow. Focus Gallery, San Francisco<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pontzious |first=Richard |date=6 December 1982 |title=New art exhibits this week |pages=32 |work=The San Francisco Examiner}}</ref>

=== Posthumous ===

==== Solo ====
* 1986:''Harry Lapow's Coney Island'', Museum of Photography, [[George Eastman Museum|George Eastman House]]<ref name=":0" />
* 1986:''Harry Lapow's Coney Island'', Museum of Photography, [[George Eastman Museum|George Eastman House]]<ref name=":0" />
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* 1980; January: 12 Brooklyn photographers, [[Lou Bernstein]], Mark Boritz, Wayne Clark, Laimute E. Druskis, Alan Forman, Thomas Germano, Barry Gerson, Roger Haile. Harry Lapow, Arnold Meisner, [[Marilyn Nance]] and Neil Trager. Community Gallery of the [[Brooklyn Museum]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 January 1980 |title=Brooklyn on film |pages=351 |work=Daily News}}</ref>
* 2002: ''Coney Island Beach People: photographs by Harry Lapow'', Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, New York<ref>From New Orleans To 52nd Street.(The City Weekly Desk). (2002). The New York Times, p. 3.</ref>
* 2002: ''Coney Island Beach People: photographs by Harry Lapow'', Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, New York<ref>From New Orleans To 52nd Street.(The City Weekly Desk). (2002). The New York Times, p. 3.</ref>

==== Group ====
⚫
* 1980; January: 12 Brooklyn photographers, [[Lou Bernstein]], Mark Boritz, Wayne Clark, Laimute E. Druskis, Alan Forman, Thomas Germano, Barry Gerson, Roger Haile. Harry Lapow, Arnold Meisner, [[Marilyn Nance]] and Neil Trager. Community Gallery of the [[Brooklyn Museum]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 January 1980 |title=Brooklyn on film |pages=351 |work=Daily News}}</ref>
* 2007: ''Alida Fish, Harry Lapow, Robert Richfield'', Alan Klotz Gallery, USA
* 2007: ''Alida Fish, Harry Lapow, Robert Richfield'', Alan Klotz Gallery, USA
* 2015/16: ''Forever Coney: Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection'', [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]], New York<ref>Bortolot, L. (2015). Arts & Entertainment: Coney Island: Signs, Schooners and Spook-A-Rama. Wall Street Journal, p. A.21.</ref>
* 2015/16: ''Forever Coney: Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection'', [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]], New York<ref>Bortolot, L. (2015). Arts & Entertainment: Coney Island: Signs, Schooners and Spook-A-Rama. Wall Street Journal, p. A.21.</ref>
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==Legacy==
==Legacy==
Still photographing at at 67 and living in [[Greenwich Village]], Lapow was vocal in widely-syndicated articles in the press<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barclay |first=Dolores |date=2 June 1976 |title=Retirement: mandatory end to 65 years |pages=2 |work=Abilene Reporter-News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2 June 1976 |title=First of a Series.. Proportion of Elderly Is Increasing |pages=2 |work=The Emporia Gazette}}</ref> and on television<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lapow |first=Harry |last2=Brophy |first2=Alice |last3=O'Dwyer |first3=Paul |date=28 March 1976 |title=Television schedule : Getting On : Senior Power |pages=490 |work=Daily News}}</ref> the mid-1970s against ageism and enforced retirement. Lapow's daughter the artist Marcelle Lapow Toor is the executor for Lapow's estate and maintains his archive.<ref name=":0" />
Still photographing at at 67 and living in [[Greenwich Village]], Lapow was vocal in widely-syndicated articles in the press<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barclay |first=Dolores |date=2 June 1976 |title=Retirement: mandatory end to 65 years |pages=2 |work=Abilene Reporter-News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2 June 1976 |title=First of a Series.. Proportion of Elderly Is Increasing |pages=2 |work=The Emporia Gazette}}</ref> and on television<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lapow |first=Harry |last2=Brophy |first2=Alice |last3=O'Dwyer |first3=Paul |date=28 March 1976 |title=Television schedule : Getting On : Senior Power |pages=490 |work=Daily News}}</ref> the mid-1970s against ageism and enforced retirement. His wife Ruth died in 1979 and he was survived by his folk-singer son Gary,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelp |first=Larry |date=12 December 1982 |title=Concerts : A singer tours his own life |pages=132 |work=Oakland Tribune}}</ref> and daughter, the artist Marcelle Lapow Toor who is the executor for Lapow's estate and maintains his archive.<ref name=":0" />


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:42, 27 December 2022

Harry Lapow (February 6, 1909 – September 14, 1982)[1][2] was an American photographer and graphic designer.

Career

Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1909, Lapow took art classes while in high school and after graduation moved to New York City to work for package designer Martin Ullman. He married Ruth Benzer in February 1934.[3] Lapow registered for the US Army draft in October 1940.[1]

In 1941 he formed a partnership, Koodin-Lapow, with Ben Koodin, designing packaging[4] for R. H. Macys, Wamsutta Mills, Seagram, Startex[5] and Rokeach, among others.[6][7]

After the War as the business expanded they hired young Cooper Union graduates Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast and Edward Sorel.[8] In a 1957 newspaper article he described trends of visibility and 'buy-me' designs in packaging as overworked clichés, advocating instead for consideration by designers of 'bagability,' easy opening and dispensing of contents, portability and 'giftability.'[9]

Photographer

Using a 6x6 twin-lens reflex Ciroflex camera that he received for his forty-third birthday in 1952, Lapow took courses with his near-contemporaries Lisette Model[10] and Sid Grossman at The New School for Social Research[11] together with his good friend, Leon Levinstein, and also studied painting with Evsa Model.

Recognition

For over 25 years, between 1952 and 1977, Lapow took photographs of Coney Island,[12] as both Model and Grossman did, and as other significant photographers had, including Weegee.[13]

One of Lapow's early photographs of an Italian wedding on the beach at Coney Island was selected by Edward Steichen for The Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art,[14] that toured the world and was seen by 9 million visitors.

He traveled widely, photographing in small fishing villages in Nova Scotia, farming and fishing communities in the Gaspé Peninsula of Québec, a Crow Nation reservation in Montana, the Magdalen Islands, Prince Edward Island, and later, in Morocco, Sardinia, and Italy.

Helen Gee gave Lapow his first exhibition at her Limelight Gallery in Greenwich Village in 1959. He also showed in group exhibitions at A Photographer's Gallery, New York, Washington, DC, Photokina in Cologne, Vu Par Cultural Center in Paris, and at Expo 67, Montreal, Canada. In 1970 he held a joint show at Ashland College devoted to Coney Island with poet Mark McCloskey in which the latter showed verse in black-on-gray panels interspersed by Lapow's monochrome photographs.[15] The show followed another early that year which included the two at the State University College at Potsdam[16] Lapow presented lectures on his work, including on at the State University College in 1975,[17] and at Tompkins Cortland Community College in 1978.[18]

In 1978 Dover Publications published a book of his Coney Island work, Coney Island Beach People[19][20][21] John Gabree, reviewing it for Newsday remarks that;

Sometimes the human beings who inhabit Harry Lapow's Coney Island look less like people than like geological phenomena, mountains especially, or rocks strewn on the beach. Other times, in their grotesque poses, they are like scuptures. With their noses covered and sunglasses, many resemble creatures from Mars. Lapow creates beauty rather than capturing it. No lively creatures in bikinis grace his pictures...And yet there is extraordinary beauty in these photographs.[22]

Fotofolio, the postcard company, distributed several Lapow images. Robert L. Pincus, reviewing Lapow's 1981 joint show with John Brumfield and Lou Stoumen at G. Ray Hawkins Gallery in Los Angeles considered that it was;

...his photographs of the '70s that seem most confident and perceptive. A 1975 portrait of two elderly women in bathing caps strolling along the shoreline is particularly poignant; both their halting stances and facial expressions, caught unaware, are effectingly vulnerable.[23]

Exhibitions

Solo

1959: solo show at Limelight Gallery, Greenwich Village, New York[24][25]

Group and joint

  • 1955: The Family of Man, MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York
  • 1970, February: Andre Billeci (glass), Linda Plotkin (prints) Harry Lapow (photographs), Mark McKoskey (poetry). Fine art gallery State University College at Potsdam[16]
  • 1970, 13–30 October: Coney Island, Lapow and poet Mark McCloskey. Ashland College[15]
  • 1971, March: Photographs by Harry Lapow and poems by Mark MeCioskey. Fine Arts Gallery at the State University of New York at Oneonta[26]
  • 1981, 3 May–6 June: John Brumfield. Harry Lapow, Lou Stoumen, photography. G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 7224 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles[27]
  • 1982, 7–31 December: Recent Photographs: Michelle Dearborn and Harry Lapow. Focus Gallery, San Francisco[28]

Posthumous

Solo

  • 1986:Harry Lapow's Coney Island, Museum of Photography, George Eastman House[14]
  • 2002: Coney Island Beach People: photographs by Harry Lapow, Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, New York[29]

Group

  • 1980; January: 12 Brooklyn photographers, Lou Bernstein, Mark Boritz, Wayne Clark, Laimute E. Druskis, Alan Forman, Thomas Germano, Barry Gerson, Roger Haile. Harry Lapow, Arnold Meisner, Marilyn Nance and Neil Trager. Community Gallery of the Brooklyn Museum[30]
  • 2007: Alida Fish, Harry Lapow, Robert Richfield, Alan Klotz Gallery, USA
  • 2015/16: Forever Coney: Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York[31]
  • 2018: New Acquisitions, Alan Klotz Gallery, USA
  • Ongoing: The Family of Man, UNESCO Memory of the World, Steichen Collections, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg

Collections

Publications

  • Lapow, Harry (1978). Coney Island beach people. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486236148. OCLC 4123375.[37][38]

Legacy

Still photographing at at 67 and living in Greenwich Village, Lapow was vocal in widely-syndicated articles in the press[39][40] and on television[41] the mid-1970s against ageism and enforced retirement. His wife Ruth died in 1979 and he was survived by his folk-singer son Gary,[42] and daughter, the artist Marcelle Lapow Toor who is the executor for Lapow's estate and maintains his archive.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for New York City, 10/16/1940 - 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147
  2. ^ Social Security Number: 061-09-4053 Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File
  3. ^ "Marriage Licenses". Times Union. 20 February 1934. p. 12.
  4. ^ Mason, S. (1972). "Encapsulating Magic: The Challenge of Package Design for Cosmetics". Graphis (Archive : 1944-2005), 28(164), 504-517.
  5. ^ "Packaging Switches to the Soft Sell (Printers' Ink)". (1959). Management Review, 48(7), 41.
  6. ^ Industrial Design, Volume 9, Page 26
  7. ^ Tide, Volume 31, Issues 13-24, Page 22, Tide Publishing Company, 1957
  8. ^ Art Direction, Volume 21, Page 117, Advertising Trade Publications, Incorporated, 1969
  9. ^ Roessner, Elmer (7 March 1957). "Business Today: New Ideas Stressed In Packaging Design". Courier-Post. p. 16.
  10. ^ New Boston Review, Issues 4-5, p.213
  11. ^ Browne, Turner; Partnow, Elaine (1983), Macmillan biographical encyclopaedia of photographic artists and innovators, Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-02-517500-6
  12. ^ Lapow, Harry (1978). Coney Island beach people. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486236148. OCLC 4123375.
  13. ^ Infinity, Volume 20, American Society of Magazine Photographers
  14. ^ a b c d e Braun-Reinitz, Janet (19 February 1986). "Keeping art in the family". The Ithaca Journal. p. 9.
  15. ^ a b "Currier and Ives Exhibit at College". Mansfield, Ohio, News Journal. 11 October 1970. p. 6.
  16. ^ a b "The artist and his art". The Post-Standard. 10 February 1970. p. 41.
  17. ^ Carey, Dan (26 March 1975). "Photographers Meet Tomorrow". The Post-Standard. p. 91.
  18. ^ "Photography lecture, workshop set at TC3". The Ithaca Journal. 26 September 1978. p. 5.
  19. ^ Reviewed in Creative Camera, Issues 176-194, Page 64
  20. ^ "Sunshine Boys and Girls", New York Magazine, April 24, 1978, Vol. 11, No. 17. ISSN 0028-7369, New York Media, LLC
  21. ^ "Sunday Best", New York Magazine 27 Jan 1975, p.53, Vol. 8, No. 4, ISSN 0028-7369, New York Media, LLC.
  22. ^ Gabree, John (18 June 1978). "New and Notable". Newsday (Nassau Edition). p. 30.
  23. ^ Pincus, Robert L. (8 May 1981). "Galleries". The Los Angeles Times. p. 107.
  24. ^ Gee, Helen (1997), Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, p. 276, ISBN 978-0-585-18769-3
  25. ^ "Speaking of pets". The Hopewell News. 29 June 1959. p. 11.
  26. ^ "City Life : Photo exhibit". The Oneonta Star. 11 March 1971. p. 5.
  27. ^ "Calendar : Art : Opening Today". The Los Angeles Times. 3 May 1981. p. 434.
  28. ^ Pontzious, Richard (6 December 1982). "New art exhibits this week". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 32.
  29. ^ From New Orleans To 52nd Street.(The City Weekly Desk). (2002). The New York Times, p. 3.
  30. ^ "Brooklyn on film". Daily News. 4 January 1980. p. 351.
  31. ^ Bortolot, L. (2015). Arts & Entertainment: Coney Island: Signs, Schooners and Spook-A-Rama. Wall Street Journal, p. A.21.
  32. ^ "Coney Island 1970s Harry Lapow". Metropolitan Museum. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  33. ^ "Harry Lapow". Brooklyn Museum.
  34. ^ "G. Ray Hawkins Gallery". The Los Angeles Times. 5 February 1980. p. 117.
  35. ^ "Record Couple on Beach, Coney Island | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  36. ^ a b "Harry Lapow Photograph". Musée Des Beaux-Arts Du Canada. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  37. ^ "Coney Island beach boy". Daily News. 28 May 1978. p. 332.
  38. ^ Turan, Kenneth (11 June 1978). "Publisher Does Everything Wrong And Flourishes". The Sacramento Bee. p. 108.
  39. ^ Barclay, Dolores (2 June 1976). "Retirement: mandatory end to 65 years". Abilene Reporter-News. p. 2.
  40. ^ "First of a Series.. Proportion of Elderly Is Increasing". The Emporia Gazette. 2 June 1976. p. 2.
  41. ^ Lapow, Harry; Brophy, Alice; O'Dwyer, Paul (28 March 1976). "Television schedule : Getting On : Senior Power". Daily News. p. 490.
  42. ^ Kelp, Larry (12 December 1982). "Concerts : A singer tours his own life". Oakland Tribune. p. 132.
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