Discover new skills this fall! Courses & workshops for the autumn are now open—for early birds, enroll before July 11 to receive 15% off a course with the code FALL15. ⁠ ⁠ From classes in our darkrooms, to an introduction to the world of AI-generated images, ICP offers an educational range for all interests and skill levels. Browse upcoming courses—in film and digital photography, lighting, printings, alongside walking courses in street photography, workshops to hone your visual storytelling, and more—through the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 1: Christine Callahan in Fine Art Digital Printing, offered this September.⁠ 2: By Karen Marshall, who teaches People and Place: The Documentary Portrait this fall.⁠ 3: By Alice O'Malley, who teaches The Fundamentals of Studio Lighting, The Fashion Portrait: From Street Style to Haute Couture, & more.⁠ 4: By Jade Doskow, who teaches Photographing Brooklyn, North to South and The Conceptual Landscape and Architecture Portfolio⁠ 5: Working in the darkroom at ICP

It’s here! 💃 Published by ICP / @artbook, the richly illustrated catalogue for ICP’s presentation of Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 by established and emerging contemporary photographers that explore love, desire and intimacy. Be one of the first to grab the catalogue, available in person and online (through the link in our bio) in ICP’s shop, in advance of wide release later in June! Among the major series reproduced here are Nan Goldin’s seminal 1986 photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey (1969) and Winter Journey (1989–90), which present the beginning and end of the relationship with his wife Yoko, from their honeymoon to her death; RongRong&inri’s tender and poetical Polaroid series Personal Letters (2000); and Leigh Ledare’s Double Bind (2010), a complex account of a love triangle between himself, his ex-wife and her new husband.

This summer, join us in celebrating love and photography! Inspired by ICP's exhibition Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, share your images capturing love in all its forms with #LoveAtICP. We will be resharing through the summer in Stories on Fridays, with a feed post at the beginning of September featuring selects from the campaign. ⁠ ⁠ Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy opens with a celebration on June 1 from 6–9 PM and is on view through September 11. Learn more about the show through the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Image: @CliffordPrinceKing, Lovers in a Field, 2019. © Clifford Prince King, Courtesy STARS, Los Angeles

Are you in New York this summer ? First presented at @mep.paris in 2022, the group exhibition "Love Songs" is remixed by @icp in New York and now on view through September 11, 2023. Bringing together 16 photographic projects on love and intimacy, the show proposes a new vision of the history of photography through the prism of intimate relationships between lovers. Here, a photograph by duo RongRong&inri from the "Personal letters" series, which marks both the beginning of their love affair and their first photographic collaboration. The Exhibition is organized in collaboration with the MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, based upon an original idea by Simon Baker. Curated at MEP by Frédérique Dolivet and Pascal Hoël, Curated at ICP by Sara Raza. - Vous êtes à New York cet été ? Présentée pour la première fois à la @mep.paris en 2022, l'exposition collective « Love Songs » est à @icp, New York jusqu’au 11 septembre 2023 dans une version repensée. Rassemblant 16 projets photographiques autour de l'amour et l'intimité, elle vous offre un nouveau regard sur l’histoire de la photographie à travers le prisme des relations amoureuses. Comme ici dans cette photographie du duo RongRong&inri issue de la série « Personal letters » qui constitue à la fois le début de leur histoire d'amour et leur première collaboration photographique. L’exposition est organisée en collaboration avec la MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Basée sur une idée originale de Simon Baker, le commissariat a été assuré par Frédérique Dolivet et Pascal Hoël à la MEP et par Sara Raza à l’ICP. ____________ RongRong&inri, Série « Personal letters », 2000 © RongRong&inri Images © Jeenah Moon for ICP #ExpoLoveSongs @rongrongandinri

"Love and loss. The ditty that played in my head as I walked through “Love Songs” is the one that begins, “You don’t know what love is … until you’ve loved a love you had to lose.” There are 16 artists in the show, which has been adapted by the independent curator Sara Raza from an exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (M.E.P.) in Paris. Many of the photographers are charting the end of a love affair. As songwriters have recognized, the pain of a breakup is more emotionally penetrating than the joy of a happy romance. But what can be readily conveyed in music is elusive in photography, where the subjects too easily become performers, and the desired feeling of intimacy turns theatrical." ⁠ ⁠ Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy is a New York Times Critic's Pick! Read the full, insightful review through the link in bio and visit this holiday weekend to see the exhibition, also hailed as must-see by Hyperallergic, Musée Magazine, the Observer, and more.⁠ ⁠ Images on slides are by Nobuyoshi Araki and Karla Hiraldo Voleau.

What is your favorite love song? ⁠ ⁠ We asked artists with projects on view in Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, to share their picks—visit tonight (Thur 6/29) for the debut of the full playlist during Date Night at ICP! We kick off the evening at 5 PM with a Pride Social, with $4 specials on @dykebeer until 9 PM in the cafe / bar (museum admission not required to attend). Then, from 6–9 PM, see the exhibition with special $5 admission and explore "photography at its best: sublime images with underbellies that reveal stories of love’s endurance." (Musée Magazine)⁠ ⁠ Learn more through the link in bio :)⁠ ⁠ The Love Songs exhibition playlist features choices from Aikaterini Gegisian, Clifford Prince King, Leigh Ledare, RongRong&inri, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, and more—everything from classics like From Do I Move You? by Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man to more recent hits including Kelsey Lu's Morning Dew and Love Proceeding by BADBADNOTGOOD.⁠ ⁠ All install images © Jeenah Moon for ICP, shown in order are projects by Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Leigh Ledare, and Aikaterini Gegisian.

Thank you to all who visited during ICP’s surprise photo pop-up with Andre Wagner (@photodre), who made portraits in the Essex/Delancey Street subway stop outside of ICP's home on the LES on Thursday (and thanks to those who visited after to see Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy). The afternoon was a meaningful reminder of how photography can bring people together and encourage us to stop and look more closely. Check the highlights for even more images from the day. For all those who missed this time around—keep an eye on ICP's channels and stay tuned for more activations around the neighborhood... 👀 Huge thanks to partners @welovenyc and @mta (plus to @liquiddeath for some hydration in a hot subway station)! Images by @__selle

❤️ This Thursday, ICP celebrates pride and love in all its forms! We start off the evening at 5 PM with a Pride Social in the ICP cafe, with specials on Dyke Beer all evening (museum admission is not required to visit the cafe).⁠ ⁠ Then, from 6 until 9 PM, enjoy our $5 Late Night ICP admission, bring your date and walk through Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy while listening to the Love Songs exhibition playlist in-gallery. Artists with work on view in the show selected their favorite love songs, from old-school classics to pop jams, for an international playlist that will be your new go-to.⁠ ⁠ Find more info on the evening through the link in our bio. We'll see you very soon!⁠ ⁠ Image: Martin Munkacsi, [Two women standing in wall], 1936. Museum Purchase, 2007 (2007.110.1623)

Singing and dancing under the stage name Jacky at Le Carrousel and L'Alcazar in Paris from the 1950s to 70s, Gaëtane Niquet was part of a community of young transgender women struggling to live their desired lives in the city. ⁠ ⁠ In the early 1960s, the Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm met and ultimately lived with these women in Place Blanche, the heart of Paris’s red-light district, becoming close with the group. One of the results of this friendship was a series of portraits, in which Niquet and her friends present themselves as powerful, glamorous, and confident. ⁠ ⁠ Image: Christer Strömholm, Jacky, Paris, 1961 (printed 1985-86). Gift of the Christer Strömholm Estate, 2012 (2012.32.1)

On view in Love Songs—@CliffordPrinceKing's intimate photographs depict private spaces inspired by real and imagined moments in his life and community, alongside an exploration of queerness within a new creative and social space. Many images in his series Orange Grove were captured in the new Los Angeles apartment shared with friend and collaborator Malcolm Marquez. Visit this weekend for King's work, as well as the 15 other powerful projects on view—more info via the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ When you visit, be sure to also flip King's book Orange Grove, available in ICP's shop.⁠ ⁠ #LoveAtICP⁠ ⁠ Image © Jeenah Moon for ICP

Happy NYC Pride! This weekend, be sure to stop by our special Pride edition of Cameras and Coffee on Saturday at 11 AM. Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP in our cafe the second Saturday of each month; in June, we add an additional date for community to gather during Pride weekend. Stop by ICP's cafe and bring your camera (or just yourself) and chat with other members of the photo community. Always free! More info is in link in bio.⁠ ⁠ About this image—Anthony Friedkin has documented California's landscape and culture for years, including multiple images in ICP's collection from Troupers Hall, a venue in Los Angeles.⁠ ⁠ Tag your own images from the weekend with #LoveAtICP, we will be resharing selects!⁠ ⁠ Image: Anthony Friedkin, Gay Couple on Dance Floor, Troupers Hall, Hollywood, 1970. Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir, 2011 (2011.70.18)

UPDATE: THAT’S A WRAP! Thank you all who came and keep an eye for more images..❗Surprise pop-up❗Until 3 PM today, ICP, Andre Wagner (@photodre), and @welovenyc are at the Essex/Delancey St subway stop, uptown F platform—come get your portrait made by iconic New York photographer Wagner; you will get a polaroid to take home, plus your image made on film for Wagner's archive (select portraits will also be featured on ICP and We ❤️ NYC’s socials). After posing in the pop-up studio, head out of the subway, which is right outside of ICP, to catch a talk with artist @CollierSchorrStudio and curator @punkorientalism at 6:30 PM, during Late Night ICP. Plus, $5 Late Night admission after 6 PM to see the ICP exhibition Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy.