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in 1970 after she bought an old houseboat, painted it purple and offered it as a gallery and photo center for many of her friends. Within a few years she added a classroom and darkrooms. The houseboat was originally moored at the 79th Street Boat Basin, but in later years it traveled up and down the
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wrote: "Moored at the literal edge of Manahattan, marginal by definition, it served a key role as the medium of photography itself moved from the periphery to the center of cultural discourse and creative activity." The Foundation continued to be an influential center for photography in New York
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was a New York photography exhibition space, meeting place and teaching center. It is famous as a gathering place for a generation of influential New York photographers, including
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mounted a retrospective exhibition about the Floating Foundation, its influences and the photographers who were part of what happened there. The catalog of the exhibition,
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Coleman, A. D. (2010). "Moored and Adrift: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography".
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Taking a Different Tack: Maggie Sherwood and the Floating Foundation of Photography
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Photography museums and galleries in the United States
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Index

W. Eugene Smith
Arthur Tress
Mary Ellen Mark
Les Krims
Judy Dater
Lisette Model
Lee Witkin
drug rehabilitation
Maggie Sherwood
Hudson River
A. D. Coleman
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
State University of New York at New Paltz
ISBN
978-0-615-25833-1
"Refloating Maggie's Vision"
The Floating Foundation of Photography
Categories
Culture of New York City
Defunct art museums and galleries in Manhattan
Photography museums and galleries in the United States
Art museums and galleries established in 1970
Art museums and galleries disestablished in 1986
1970 establishments in New York City
1986 disestablishments in New York (state)

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