Alex Harsley in the Press
HoneySuckle Magazine
By Ronit Pinto
Epic, iconic, a New York staple, photographer Alex Harsley has been on the scene since the ’50s, with striking, unafraid glimpses into the street life, nightlife and daily lives of residents in NYC and beyond; including legendary such as John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Muhammad Ali. Harsley formed Minority Photographers Inc. in 1971, now an internationally recognized non-profit organization, in his own home on Essex Street – pictured below – and then opened the 4th Street Photo Gallery two years later, where he has exhibited and inspired generations of artists young and old ever since, and kept a welcoming, mentoring salon with hours as unusual and irregular as its founder. To me this environment speaks and reeks of home.
New York Times
By HOLLAND COTTER JUNE 14, 2012
In 1971 Alex Harsley founded the nonprofit art organization Minority Photographers Inc. Two years later he opened the 4th Street Photo Gallery in a storefront at 67 East Fourth Street in the East Village, where he has exhibited generations of artists, young and old, and kept a welcoming, mentoring salon, which tends to keep jazz hours, opening midafternoon and operating well into the evening.
2013 Safran, Yehuda E., “Philip Johnson in MoMA’s Garden,” Potlach: A Journal of the
Potlach Lab at Columbia University GSAPP, Issue #3, Spring, pp. 81-83, one photograph
2012 Kley, Elisabeth, reviews: new york, “Alex Harsley, June Kelly,” ARTnews, September, pp.110-111
Cotter, Holland, “Alex Harsley,” Art in Review, The New York Times, June 15, p. C25
Boyd, Herb, “Alex Harsley’s Photos at June Kelly’s Gallery, The Network Journal, Friday, June 15
2004 Bey, Dawoud, “Into the Light,” review, art on paper, May/June
Aletti, Vince, review, Village Voice, February 4-10
2002 Tabron, Christopher, “Tiny ‘Patchworks’ of Art,” SoHo Weekly News, April
1997 Schjeldahl, Peter, “Whitney Biennial,” video collaboration with installation artist
David Hammons, Village Voice
1985 Braff, Phyllis, “Pictures Worth a thousand Words,” The New York Times, Sunday, April
1975 Henni, P., “SWN Discoveries,” Soho Weekly News
1971 Coleman, A. D., “Latent Image,” Village Voice Coleman, A. D., “Shows We’ve Seen,”
Popular Photography
By Ronit Pinto
Epic, iconic, a New York staple, photographer Alex Harsley has been on the scene since the ’50s, with striking, unafraid glimpses into the street life, nightlife and daily lives of residents in NYC and beyond; including legendary such as John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Muhammad Ali. Harsley formed Minority Photographers Inc. in 1971, now an internationally recognized non-profit organization, in his own home on Essex Street – pictured below – and then opened the 4th Street Photo Gallery two years later, where he has exhibited and inspired generations of artists young and old ever since, and kept a welcoming, mentoring salon with hours as unusual and irregular as its founder. To me this environment speaks and reeks of home.
New York Times
By HOLLAND COTTER JUNE 14, 2012
In 1971 Alex Harsley founded the nonprofit art organization Minority Photographers Inc. Two years later he opened the 4th Street Photo Gallery in a storefront at 67 East Fourth Street in the East Village, where he has exhibited generations of artists, young and old, and kept a welcoming, mentoring salon, which tends to keep jazz hours, opening midafternoon and operating well into the evening.
2013 Safran, Yehuda E., “Philip Johnson in MoMA’s Garden,” Potlach: A Journal of the
Potlach Lab at Columbia University GSAPP, Issue #3, Spring, pp. 81-83, one photograph
2012 Kley, Elisabeth, reviews: new york, “Alex Harsley, June Kelly,” ARTnews, September, pp.110-111
Cotter, Holland, “Alex Harsley,” Art in Review, The New York Times, June 15, p. C25
Boyd, Herb, “Alex Harsley’s Photos at June Kelly’s Gallery, The Network Journal, Friday, June 15
2004 Bey, Dawoud, “Into the Light,” review, art on paper, May/June
Aletti, Vince, review, Village Voice, February 4-10
2002 Tabron, Christopher, “Tiny ‘Patchworks’ of Art,” SoHo Weekly News, April
1997 Schjeldahl, Peter, “Whitney Biennial,” video collaboration with installation artist
David Hammons, Village Voice
1985 Braff, Phyllis, “Pictures Worth a thousand Words,” The New York Times, Sunday, April
1975 Henni, P., “SWN Discoveries,” Soho Weekly News
1971 Coleman, A. D., “Latent Image,” Village Voice Coleman, A. D., “Shows We’ve Seen,”
Popular Photography