Newcomb Gallery Re-Opens
The Newcomb Art Gallery is proud to re-open with an exhibition celebrating the cultural history of New Orleans. (Note: My finacee will be presenting a rescued Zulu artifact from 1968, the first year they rode on St Charles, to members of Zulu on opening night!)
CAPTURING SOUTHERN BOHEMIA JACK ROBINSON’S NEW ORLEANS PHOTOGRAPHS, 1950-1955
Curated by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman, Arkansas State University
April 6 – May 28, 2006 Opening Event – April 6, 6-8 p.m.
April 8 at 2 p.m. Lecture, Woldenberg Art Center
by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman
In 1997, hundreds of photographic negatives of New Orleans in the 1950s were discovered in Memphis, Tennessee. These images were part of the work of Jack Robinson, a deceased internationally famous fashion and celebrity photographer from Mississippi, and former Tulane student (1945-1948), who, in his twenties, began experimenting with photography while working as a graphic artist in New Orleans!
In 1955, Robinson relocated to New York City where he was discovered by top fashion editors and
chosen to photograph rising stars in music, film, literature and television for Vogue. Robinson’s images
of Joni Mitchell, Warren Beatty, Sonny and Cher, Aretha Franklin, Clint Eastwood, The Who, and
dozens of cultural icons, became part of our collective visual memory of the era. But Robinson’s tremendous
gifts were first evident in his New Orleans portraits as the young artist experimented with
light, texture, reflection, and mood and found inspiration in the streets and personalities of the city.
Through these extraordinary images, taken in the early years of the Cold War, we have a rare view into
New Orleans’ racially integrated life and culture, its regional modern art movement, and Mardi Gras,
as celebrated near Dixie’s Bar of Music by the denizens of the French Quarter and the Zulus. Considering
the importance of New Orleans to Robinson’s development as an artist and photographer, it is
fitting that the Newcomb Art Gallery should host the world premiere of this one hundred-piece exhibition
of Robinson’s newly discovered and restored portraits of New Orleans.
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NEWCOMB ART GALLERY
WOLDENBERG ART CENTER
TULANE UNIVERSITY
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118
504-865-5328
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