GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Brooklyn Public Library currently presents “It Happened in New York”, an exhibition of photographs by Sylvia Plachy. Between 1974 and 2004, Plachy was a staff photographer for the Village Voice. The exhibition is an ode to New York and Plachy’s immense power of observation.
Plachy, who was also a contributing photographer at the New Yorker and a columnist for Metropolis magazine, captures New York’s writers, musicians, artists, and public icons alongside the sidewalk characters who personify the city. Plachy is also the mother of noted actor Adrien Brody.
Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images
The exhibition is comprised of nearly 40 photographs along with clippings from the Village Voice and Metropolis as well as the artist’s books. We meet the bold countenance of a woman named Monet, commanding a pack of Great Danes in front of a Lower East Side building covered in graffiti. In another, Tom Waits poses as a toreador. Margaret Atwood poses in a cape evoking “The Handmaiden’s Tale,” three years before it was written. Break dancers torque their bodies on the boardwalk.
Plachy will walk through the exhibition and talk about her photographs on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m. starting in the grand lobby of Central Library. The program is free, but reservations are recommended.
Sylvia Plachy, born in Budapest, lives in New York. She has had one-person shows at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris in New York, the Queens Museum, The Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius, Photo España, Madrid, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, and in galleries in Homer, Budapest, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Manchester, Arles, Perpingnon and Pingyau.
For thirty years (1974-2004) she was a photographer at The Village Voice, where she had…
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