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This exhibition, curated by Jane Alison in close collaboration with Mayne’s daughter, Katkin Tremayne, features over 60 vintage photographs, some never exhibited before. While the two bodies of work, street and family, have a different tenor, they are united by Mayne’s radical empathy with his youthful subjects and his desire to create photographic images that enjoy a lasting impact, produced with great sensitivity and artistic integrity. With Mayne’s post-war subjects now in their more senior years, and today’s younger generation facing a myriad crises, Mayne’s deliberations on growing up, childhood, adolescence and family feel especially poignant and timely.

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Roger Mayne’s genuine curiosity about people shines through in his photographs of kids playing on the streets of 1950s and 60s Britain and intimate shots of his family.

The documentary images of photographer Roger Mayne (1929-2014) are the subject of the first ever exhibition of photography to take place in the main galleries of the Courtauld. Focusing on his unique way of capturing the youth of the day in the 1950s and 60s, the exhibition brings together his well-known photographs of Southam Street in west London, and others of that ilk, alongside some very special family photographs of his children growing up. With such a personal angle, it is crucial that the guest curator, Jane Alison, has worked closely with Mayne’s daughter, Katkin Tremayne, over several years to bring this passion project to fruition.

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In its 92-year history, the Courtauld Gallery in London has never acquired or exhibited photography – until now. Its inaugural exhibition is Roger Mayne: Youth, devoted to some 60 works by the self-taught British photographer best known for his documents of working-class children on the poor and battered streets of postwar London.

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The photographer may not be a household name, but his gritty, monochrome images of 1950s Britain are instantly recognisable, brought together in this lovingly curated must-see show at the Courtauld Gallery.

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June 14 – September 1

Acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) was famous for his evocative documentary images of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. 

This exhibition, of around 60 almost exclusively vintage photographs, includes many of his iconic street images of children and teenagers, alongside an almost entirely unknown selection of intimate and moving later images of his own family at home in Dorset, as well as those taken on his honeymoon in Spain in 1962.

Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found it.

This is The Courtauld's first ever photography exhibition.

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The Courtauld Gallery’s first ever photography exhibition celebrates the work of the Cambridge photographer, with his focus on emerging youth cultures in the 1950s and 1960s.

He had been influential in helping photography to gain acceptance as an art form. Fittingly, his work now forms the first ever exhibition of photography at the Courtauld Gallery.

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An orchestrated salute, however noble, can only go so far. It is best, perhaps, to view Jackie Robinson Day as an invitation, a chance to study and understand the complexities and nuances of a man who was much more than a surface-level hero. In that spirit, here are a couple ways to do it.

Reiferson’s collection will be presented as an exhibit, “Jackie Robinson and the Color Line,” from Monday through May 24 at the Gitterman Gallery in New York. The photos and artifacts, including telegrams and letters, comprise more than Robinson’s journey and stretch back to the integrated teams of the late 1800s.

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The exhibition at Gitterman Gallery, which runs from April 15 to May 24, will tell even more forgotten stories through vintage photographs, telegrams, and other artifacts of Black players such as Roy Partlow, Johnny Wright, and Dan Bankhead—lesser-known peers of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ player renowned for breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947...

The thread through Reiferson’s collecting is a desire to chronicle American history. The Gitterman Gallery exhibition, for instance, aims to paint a fuller picture of baseball’s slow and difficult path to integration in the U.S., while also revealing the power and beauty of photography. 

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František Drtikol and Josef Sudek, two Czech avant-garde photographers, have their works paired together for this stunning exhibition, aptly entitled Czech Avant-Garde. Here, the lights and glamor of fame and fortune are replaced for true authenticity, showcasing talent and artisanry like few photography exhibitions do. Drtikol and Sudek are to be studied as true pioneers, and this series proves that their work belongs in the pantheon of the twentieth century’s photography palette.

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