Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

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Presence is a thrilling immersion into the personal collection of photographer and humanitarian Judy Glickman Lauder. Nearly 160 images by some eighty photographers, selected from Judy Glickman Lauder's collection of over 650 prints, explore the idea of "presence" of the human spirit. This stunningly designed album showcases the imagery of beloved and influential photographers of the twentieth century, such as Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, Gordon Parks, Sebastiao Salgado, Weegee, and James Van Der Zee. Spanning Pictorialism, portraiture, and fashion, to documentary and photojournalism, and featuring iconic figures from the fields of art, politics, entertainment, and social justice, Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder celebrates photography's ability to capture the human experience. Essays by Anjuli Lebowitz and Adam D. Weinberg provide historical and artistic context, while an autobiographical essay by Glickman Lauder tells the story of her collection. This book accompanies an exhibition drawn from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection at the Portland Museum of Art, to which the Collection has been gifted. Published by Aperture in partnership with the Portland Museum of Art, Maine 'Going through the pages of this book and seeing how Judy collects only deepens my love for the photographic medium. As a photography collector myself, I can relate to Judy's directive that the image must speak to the viewer in an emotional way - and every image within this book does just that!' - Elton John

Judy Glickman Lauder is a photographer and philanthropist. Her previous books are Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Collection of Judith Ellis Glickman (2007); a book on her father's work, For the Love of It: The Photography of Irving Bennett Ellis (2008); Upon Reflection: Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman (2012); and Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception (Aperture, 2018). Glickman Lauder's work is the subject of many exhibitions, including Holocaust: The Presence of the Past and Resistance and Rescue: Denmark's Response to the Holocaust, which have been shown at more than two hundred institutions around the world. Her photographs are held in private collections and public institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. In 2016, she and her husband Leonard Lauder were awarded the Gordon Parks Patron of the Arts Award. Mark Bessire is director of the Portland Museum of Art, Maine's oldest public art institution. Previously, he was director of the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine, and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art where he organized many exhibitions, including The Photography of Ike Ude and Eracism: William Pope.L. Anjuli Lebowitz is associate curator of photography at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Most recently Lebowitz worked in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where she worked on several exhibitions and catalogs, including Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work, 1940-1950 and American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams. Previously, she was a fellow in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she curated Faith and Photography: Auguste Salzmann in the Holy Land. Adam D. Weinberg is director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where he has curated exhibitions on artists, including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Pousette-Dart, Isamu Noguchi, and Frank Stella. Among the artists with whom he has organized public projects are Christian Boltanski, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Lorna Simpson, and Jessica Stockholder. Under his leadership, the museum opened its Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking District.

"Going through the pages of this book and seeing how Judy collects only deepens my love for the photographic medium. As a photography collector myself, I can relate to Judy's directive that the image must speak to the viewer in an emotional way-and every image within this book does just that!" -Elton John