Kibbitz & Nosh Gallery Talk with Marcia Bricker Halperin

Join the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin in the galleries of her exhibition “Kibbitz & Nosh: New York City’s Vanishing Cafeterias.”  Learn about how she, with her twin-lens reflex and 35mm film cameras in hand came to photograph at Dubrow’s Cafeterias and the Horn & Hardart Automats, documenting the waning years of New York City’s self-service dining establishments.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marcia Bricker Halperin, a lifelong Brooklynite, has been photographing the character and landscape of New York City since the 1970s. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College and soon after had her first solo exhibition at the Midtown Y Gallery. In the late 1970s, she was active in the Photographers Forum, an organization that was a continuation of the 1940s Photo League, reflecting their humanistic and aesthetic concerns. She went on to spend 35 years in K-12 education teaching art and photography and using her creativity in special education with disabled and autistic students. Since retiring, she has been scanning and printing large bodies of unseen negatives from her archives. Through her photography she hopes to relate a human story of a specific time, capture a place’s essence, and freeze details of life.

This exhibition and programs are made possible, in part, by funds provided by the New York Council on the Arts Support for Organizations grant and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Rockland County Tourism.