Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at the New York Public Library November 21, 2010

Henri Cartier-Bresson compared portraits to a visual reverberation, in which, "the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit." His definition of portraiture (appealing to themes of recall, repetition and return) also applies more generally to photography itself, describing a medium that has been repeatedly renegotiated over its short history, whether in terms of mechanical reproduction, documentary evidence or as an independent art. 'Recollection' celebrates thirty years of photogaphy at The New York Public Library.