A black and white double-exposed portrait of a woman

A black and white portrait by Gordon Parks of a woman holding a broom in one hand and a mop in the other.

A black and white image of three shirtless children posing and staring into the camera

A hazy, black and white image of a figure in a nightgown carrying a birdcage while walking down a fenced path, their head out of view.

A black and white photograph of a couple in hats embracing on a city sidewalk

A black and white image of men in black cloaks twirling in the falling snow

A black and white image of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith posing for the camera in a small kitchen

A black and white, double-exposed image of three female figures standing at the edge of a tree-lined pond, their reflections luminous in the dark water below

A black and white photo of a woman posing in front of two men playing pool, flipping her hair back and posing for the camera

All Exhibitions

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Feb 11, 2023 — Apr 29, 2023

PAST EXHIBITION

From the anonymous to the celebrity and from the everyday to era-defining events such as the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the Civil Rights Movement, Presence is a riveting exploration of photography that captures the wide spectrum of the human experience.

About the Exhibition

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder features 145 photographs by 70 artists from the collection of photographer and humanitarian Judy Glickman Lauder. Presence creates a dialogue between some of the most beloved and influential photographers of the 20^th century, including Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Gordon Parks, and James Van Der Zee. The exhibition also includes photographs by critical contributors to the medium’s history, such as Irving Bennett Ellis, Graciela Iturbide, Lotte Jacobi, and Alma Lavenson.

Organized by the Portland Museum of Art and drawn from Glickman Lauder’s collection of nearly 700 works of art, Presence is inextricably shaped by her personal and artistic vision. As the daughter of a photographer and a master photographic activist and storyteller in her own right, Glickman Lauder developed her collection over several decades, resulting in an intimate, lifelong connection to the medium. As an artist, Glickman Lauder’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in over 300 public and private collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United States Holocaust Museum.

The presentation of Presence at the Grand Rapids Art Museum expands upon a long history of photographic exhibitions and acquisitions at the Museum, providing a context for GRAM’s collection and encouraging a dialogue with the community and collectors for future areas of acquisition.

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder is organized by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine. The exhibition was curated by Anjuli Lebowitz, Judy Glickman Lauder Associate Curator of Photography, Portland Museum of Art, Maine.

Presenting Sponsor

Exhibition Support

The Grand Rapids Art Museum presentation has been made possible by:

Wege Foundation

Eenhoorn, LLC.

James and Mary Nelson

BISSELL, Inc.

The Louis and Helen Padnos Foundation

Jane and John Meilner

Jack and Susan Smith

brightly

Burr & Company

Robert Daverman, AIA / Grand Rapids Community Foundation

Kayem Dunn

Erin Gravelyn

Haworth Helps

Dirk and June Hoffius

Linda and Scott LaFontsee

Enid Packard

Ruth Posthumus and Marlin Feyen

Lisa M. Rose and Emma Rose Starner

Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge

Williams Distributing

Friends of Presence: Mitchell and Karen Padnos, Phillip and Julie Croll, Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids, The Junior League of Grand Rapids, Milt and Barbara Rohwer, Paul and Beth Taylor

Additional funding provided by the GRAM Exhibition Society.

Catalogue

Published by Aperture, a companion publication of the same title commemorates the exhibition through nearly 160 images selected from Judy Glickman Lauder’s collection of over 650 prints. The catalogue includes an introduction by Mark Bessire, the Judy and Leonard Lauder Director of the Portland Museum of Art, an essay by Dr. Anjuli Lebowitz, the Judy Glickman Lauder Associate Curator of Photography, and an essay on the artist by Adam Weinberg, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and reflections from Judy Glickman Lauder on her life in photography.