Recent News
One of my favorite places to photograph - Brighton Beach at the far southern edge of Brooklyn. An editorial piece of my photographs from 1979 and 2024 appears in the winter issue of B'nai Brith magazine.
National Jewish Book Award Winner 2024
From the Judge's Remarks:
The book serves as a rich document for future academics and storytellers looking to understand the daily life of common New Yorkers and the centrality of “third spaces” to community and culinary culture, and it does so in a one-of-a-kind visual manner befitting the significance of such an institution.
Through My Lens: NYC in the 1970s
Brooklyn College Library
September 1 - November 10, 2023
The exhibition offers a nostalgic and poignant glimpse into New York City's diverse and visually rich communities in the 1970s through 25 black and white photographs.
The works include iconic cafeterias such as Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Automat, public markets of the Lower East Side and Spanish Harlem, Coney Island, the streets of Flatbush, and Hell’s Kitchen. The images, which span over a decade, celebrate the cultural significance of these neighborhoods and places while highlighting their ongoing struggle for survival amid the city's ever-evolving landscape.
Outdoor Exhibition in Morningside Park NYC
August 5 - November 30, 2023
Outdoor installation featuring 10 photographers and 5 youth photographers.
More info at:
https://www.facesofharlem.com/2023-photographers
Recent Events
Thank you to all those that attended in-person and virtually. Stay tuned for upcoming exhibits and events.
Check out these archived events
Garment District Arts Alliance Exhibition
Kaufman Arcade
139 West 35th Street (behind Macy's)
free to the public Monday - Saturday
through August 25th
Media coverage
Edward Hopper House Exhibition
Nyack, New York
Kibbitz & Nosh: New York City’s Vanishing Cafeterias
April 13, 2023 - June 25, 2023
An exhibition of over 30 photographs documenting the waning years of New York City’s self-service dining establishments.
Learn more
Hell's Kitchen online article
https://w42st.com/post/marcia-bricker-halpern-photographer-1970s-hells-kitchen/
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis
International Center of Photography, NYC
Exhibition: October 1, 2020 - January 3, 2021
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, initiated by the International Center of Photography in March, 2020, presents an exhibition and book of photographs collected from the ICPConcerned hashtag on Instagram. The images present a wide range of responses to recent events worldwide, from the COVID-19 pandemic to Black Lives Matter protests and beyond.
Rosh Hashanah shofar blowing, Brooklyn Public Library, 2020
Hear my audio recording here:
https://gesso.fm/icp/collections/Exhibition/icpconcerned-global-images-for-global-crisis
Exhibition and Lecture
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
January 16 -July 31, 2020
New York City's Vanished Cafeterias
ARTNEWS review
'She Persists': At the Mayor's House, a Thrilling Chronicle of
Women Artists in New York
by Andrew Russeth January 25, 2019
"But the truly unforgettable piece, for me, is a 1980 photo, shot by Marcia Bricker, of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who for decades has served as the unpaid artist in residence at the Department of Sanitation. She’s sitting on a stool at a diner, accompanied by three of the 8,500 sanitation workers whose hands she set out to shake. Each time she did so, she said to them something that could be addressed to every artist in this remarkable show—and that should be said more often, to more people: “Thank you for keeping New York City alive.”
Book Cover - Love and Exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer
published by Penguin Classics, 2018
A photograph taken through the window of Dubrow's Cafeteria in 1975 appears on the cover of the reissued Isaac Bashevis Singer memoir. In the book he often frequents cafeterias. Singer won the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1978. His memoir and Yiddish translations are being reissued in Europe and the Commonwealth due to renewed interest in his work and Yiddish literature.
New York Times Lens Blog Feature
May 7, 2017
In New York’s Cafeterias, a Cup of Coffee and Community
Afterimage review
The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism
THE TASTE OF CROWDS Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum June 27 - August 10, 2008
"Click!" contained some very good images. The unanimous favorite across all experience levels was Marcia Bricker Halperin's Dubrow's Cafeteria (1979), a black-and-white image of a sagacious old woman looking at the street from behind a plate glass window dominated by the reflection of an old-fashioned taxicab. Mingling the transparencies and reflections of plate glass windows is a trick dating to Eugene Atget's day, but Halperin pulls it off in an image worthy of André Kertesz.
