A survey exhibition of photographs by Paula Kotis, whose has traveled the world, capturing the human condition in images of artists, celebrities, refugees, and Holocaust survivors. Until a recent exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, her exceptional work had rarely been publicly shown. Kotis will give a public presentation discussing her exhibition September 19 at 3pm.

A native New Yorker who also lives in Wellfleet, Paula Horn Kotis studied psychology at Hunter College, graduating in 1943. She learned photographic skills from her father in his Upper East Side portrait studio. Engaging with his work and eventually taking charge of the studio, Kotis soon began to receive notice for her own pictures. She studied the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, and has produced a powerful body of photographs taken in New York and throughout Europe. In 1948 she made a remarkable series of images documenting the journey of Jewish Holocaust survivors from displaced persons camps near Famagusta, Cyprus to the port of Haifa in northern Israel.

Kotis moved to Greenwich Village in the early 1950s to live among friends who were actors, musicians, artists and writers. She collaborated on projects with the novelist James Baldwin and the poet Frank O’Hara, and photographed jazz greats including Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Ebony, Arts, Evergreen Review and U.S. Camera. This exhibition will feature approximately forty works from several portfolios including Cyprus to Haifa.

Opening: September 18, 8 PM

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