Melanie Einzig

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Melanie Einzig (born 1967) [1] is an American photographer known for her street photography in and around New York City, where she has lived since 1990. [2] Einzig was a member of the first incarnation of the In-Public street photography collective, from 2002. Her work has been published in the survey publications on street photography, Bystander: A History of Street Photography and Street Photography Now. She has shown in group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago; Somerset House in London; the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany; and KunstHausWien in Vienna, Austria. The Art Institute of Chicago and Brooklyn Historical Society hold examples of her work in their collections.

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Life and work

Einzig was born in Los Angeles, California [3] and grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. [2] [3] Attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s and then moved to New York City in 1990 to become an artist [2] [3] and studied photography at New York University/International Center of Photography, focusing on computer-generated imagery and filmmaking. [3] She worked for Associated Press in New York City from 1998 to 2002 then as a self-employed event photographer. [3] [4] She was a member of the first incarnation of the In-Public street photography collective, from 2002. [5]

In the book Street Photography Now, Howarth and McLaren write that "Einzig wanders the city that has been her home since 1990, sniffing out eccentric characters and tuning into tiny little plays that spontaneously erupt on city corners. [. . .] Einzig is a whimsical anthropologist whose seemingly arbitrary samplings show up sharp revelations". [6] Lucy Sante is quoted in the same publication as saying "Einzig represents the very ideal of the street photographer. She's alert, funny, sympathetic, quick-witted, drily romantic". [6] Her photograph titled "September 11th, New York, 2011" was included in the Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour exhibition at Somerset House in London in 2012/2013. Harry Eyres' review in the Financial Times considered the photograph "[p]erhaps the most dramatic single image in the Somerset House exhibition [. . .] a brilliant, unforgettable photograph..." [7] Nancy Durrant in The Times wrote that "[i]n some ways the most powerful shot is Melanie Einzig's study on 9/11 in New York" [8] and Emily Luxton for HuffPost also considered it "[o]ne of the images which stands out the most" (despite being "one of the smallest"). [9]

Publications with contributions by Einzig

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Einzig's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Awards

Films

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