The Centro Cultural de Cascais presented Ruth Orkin – The Illusion of Time, the first major international exhibition dedicated to the work of photographer and film director Ruth Orkin (1921-1985), an essential name in the history of photography.

The exhibition brought together around 120 photographs – as well as films, documents and original objects, such as letters, excerpts from newspapers and magazines, pages from Orkin’s personal diary and a camera that belonged to her – to create a vivid panorama of her artistic career and reveal the originality of her personal and intimate point of view on the daily chronicles of “American life”.

Ruth Orkin – The Illusion of Time includes some of the most significant photographic series in Orkin’s career, such as “Jimmy Tells a Story, West Village, New York, 1947”, “The Card Players, New York, 1952” and “Don’t Be Afraid to Travel Alone, 1952”, which includes “American Girl in Italy”, which would become her best-known photograph and, without a doubt, one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. The exhibition also features portraits of personalities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Robert Capa, Leonard Bernstein and Albert Einstein.

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Presentation in Portugal: D. Luis I Foundation
Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais
April 28 to July 7, 2024

Photographs from the gallery kindly provided by Fundação D. Luís I / Julia Lombão