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Alex Harsley in the Press

What's Going On - Dawoud Bey Blog
HoneySuckle Magazine
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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
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Video Interviews

Feature: Photographer Alex Harsley and the Fourth Street Photo Gallery from CBS News: 50 Years Later on Vimeo.

Alex Harsley - East Village photographer from James Matthews on Vimeo.

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