Presence

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, Sebastião 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 whom the Collection has been gifted. Published by Aperture in partnership with the Portland Museum of Art, Maine

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.