Melanie Einzig

Einzig was born in Los Angeles, California{{cite web|accessdate=2020-07-30|title=Melanie Einzig: New York City Street Photos|url=https://stadthaus.ulm.de/en/melanie-einzig-new-york-city-street-photos|website=Stadthaus Ulm}} and grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s and then moved to New York City in 1990 to become an artist and studied photography at New York University/International Center of Photography, focusing on computer-generated imagery and filmmaking. She worked for Associated Press in New York City from 1998 to 2002 then as a self-employed event photographer.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-06|title=Melanie Einzig joins LSPF|url=https://lspf.co.uk/news/melanie-einzig-joins-lspf/|website=London Street Photography Festival}} She was a member of the first incarnation of the In-Public street photography collective, from 2002.{{cite book | first = Nick | last = Turpin | title= 10 – 10 Years of In-Public | year= 2010 | publisher= Nick Turpin Publishing | location= London | isbn = 978-0-9563322-1-9}}

In the book Street Photography Now, Howarth and McLaren write that "Einzig wanders the city that has been her home since 1990, sniffing out eccentric characters and tuning into tiny little plays that spontaneously erupt on city corners. [. . .] Einzig is a whimsical anthropologist whose seemingly arbitrary samplings show up sharp revelations".{{cite book | title = Street Photography Now | first1 = Sophie | last1 = Howarth | first2 = Stephen | last2 = McLaren | year=2010 | publisher=Thames & Hudson | isbn = 978-0-500-54393-1 | page=40}} Lucy Sante is quoted in the same publication as saying "Einzig represents the very ideal of the street photographer. She's alert, funny, sympathetic, quick-witted, drily romantic". Her photograph titled "September 11th, New York, 2011" was included in the Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour exhibition at Somerset House in London in 2012/2013. Harry Eyres' review in the Financial Times considered the photograph "[p]erhaps the most dramatic single image in the Somerset House exhibition [. . .] a brilliant, unforgettable photograph..."{{cite web|date=18 January 2013|accessdate=2020-08-06|first1=Harry|last1=Eyres|authorlink=Harry Eyres|title=The humble heroes of Cartier-Bresson|url=https://www.ft.com/content/9fa6a156-50e2-11e2-b287-00144feab49a|website=Financial Times}} Nancy Durrant in The Times wrote that "[i]n some ways the most powerful shot is Melanie Einzig's study on 9/11 in New York"{{cite news|first1=Nancy|last1=Durrant|access-date=2020-07-30|title=Cartier Bresson: A Question of Colour, Somerset House, WC2|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/france/paris/cartier-bresson-a-question-of-colour-somerset-house-wc2-gd7tg5b83j6|work=The Times|issn=0140-0460}} and Emily Luxton for HuffPost also considered it "[o]ne of the images which stands out the most" (despite being "one of the smallest").{{cite web|date=28 November 2012|accessdate=2020-07-30|first1=Emily|last1=Luxton|title=A Question of Colour at Somerset House|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/emily-luxton/a-question-of-colour-at-s_b_2197909.html|website=HuffPost}}

• Bystander: A History of Street Photography: with a new afterword on street photography since the 1970s. By Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz. Boston, MA: Bulfinch, 2001; {{ISBN|9780821217559}}. Bystander: a History of Street Photography. London: Laurence King, 2017; {{ISBN|978-1-78627-066-5}}.
• Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour. By William Ewing. London: Positive View Foundation, 2012. {{OCLC|913427536}}.
• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-9563322-1-9}}. Includes an essay by Jonathan Glancey, "Outlandish Harmony"; a foreword by Turpin; and chapters by Einzig and others.
• Street Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-500-54393-1}}. Edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren.{{cite news|first1=Sarah|last1=Bakewell|accessdate=2020-08-02|title=The ecstasy of street photography|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/23/street-photography-ecstasy|newspaper=The Guardian|date=23 December 2010|issn=0261-3077}}
• New York in Color. New York City: Abrams, 2011. By Bob Shamis. {{ISBN|978-1419700613}}.
• Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs. By Henry Carrol. London: Laurence King, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1780673356}}.
• Seeing Things: A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs. By Joel Meyerowitz. New York: Aperture, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1-59711-315-1}}.

• New York City Street Photos{{cite web|accessdate=2023-03-19|title=New York City Street Photo|url=https://stadthaus.ulm.de/en/melanie-einzig-new-york-city-street-photos}}Stadthaus ULM, Ulm, Germany, 2021/22

• The Sidewalk Never Ends: Street Photography Since the 1970's, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2001/2002{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-02|title=The Sidewalk Never Ends: Street Photography Since the 1970's - Art Institute of Chicago - Absolutearts.com|url=https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/11/23/29381.html|website=www.absolutearts.com}}{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-02|title=Photography: The Sidewalk Never Ends|url=https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8426/photography-the-sidewalk-never-ends|website=The Art Institute of Chicago}}
• Common Ground: Photographers on the Street, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Brighton, Massachusetts, 2003; Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford / Somerville, Massachusetts, 2003{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-02|title=McMullen Museum of Art|url=https://www.bc.edu/sites/artmuseum/exhibitions/common-ground/|website=www.bc.edu}}
• in-public @ 10, Photofusion, Brixton, London, 2010;{{cite web|url = http://www.photofusion.org/exhibitions/in-public10/ | accessdate = 23 March 2016 | publisher = Photofusion | title = In-Public@10}} Les Ballades Photographiques de Seyssel, Seyssel, France, July 2011.{{cite web | url = http://www.competencephoto.com/agenda/74-Seyssel-Balades-photographiques-de-Seyssel_ae131177.html | accessdate = 23 March 2016 | publisher = :fr:Compétence photo| title = 74 - Seyssel • Balades photographiques de Seyssel}}{{cite news | url = http://www.latribunerepublicaine.fr/Actualite/Sortir/article_1430433.shtml | date = 7 July 2011 | accessdate = 23 March 2016 | publisher = :fr:La Tribune républicaine de Bellegarde | title = Les balades photographiques de Seyssel, du 12 au 23 juillet | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160205021329/http://www.latribunerepublicaine.fr/Actualite/Sortir/article_1430433.shtml | archive-date = 5 February 2016 | url-status = dead }} Photographs by In-Public members.
• Street Photography Now, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, 2010;{{cite web|url=http://www.in-public.com/news/2010/10/3rdfloor |date=5 October 2010 |access-date=23 March 2016 |publisher=In-Public |title=Street photography now at the Third Floor Gallery |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401214101/http://www.in-public.com/news/2010/10/3rdfloor |archive-date= 1 April 2016 |df= }} Contributed Studio for the Arts, Berlin, 2010/2011;{{cite web | url = http://www.contributed.de | access-date = 5 April 2016 | publisher = In-Public | title = Contributed Studio for the Arts | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120723184538/http://www.contributed.de/ | archive-date = 23 July 2012 | df = }} Museum of Printing, Historical Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2011/2012.{{cite web | url = http://www.kulturalna.warszawa.pl/events,1,58572.html?locale=en_GB&b=1&pNum=3 | accessdate = 5 April 2016 | publisher = City of Warsaw | title = 'Street photography now' – exhibition}}{{cite web | url = http://culture.pl/en/event/street-photography-here-and-now | accessdate = 5 April 2016 | publisher = Culture.pl | title = Street Photography Here And Now}} Photographs from the book Street Photography Now (2010).
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Format International Photography Festival (Right Here, Right Now – Exposures From The Public Realm), Derby, UK, 2011. Photographs by In-Public members and the film In-Sight (2011).{{cite web | url = http://archive11.formatfestival.com/exhibitions/exhibition/public-derby-museum-and-art-gallery | access-date = 16 January 2016 | website = Format International Photography Festival | title = In-Public at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160402100617/http://archive11.formatfestival.com/exhibitions/exhibition/public-derby-museum-and-art-gallery | archive-date = 2 April 2016 | df = }}{{cite web | url = http://archive11.formatfestival.com/news-and-press/format-programme-announcement | access-date = 23 March 2016 | website = Format International Photography Festival| title = Format Programme Announcement | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150211122147/http://archive11.formatfestival.com/news-and-press/format-programme-announcement | archive-date = 11 February 2015 | df = }}{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/format-festival-street-photography-steals-the-show-2231147.html | date = 3 March 2011 | accessdate = 23 March 2016 | first = Matilda | last = Battersby | newspaper = The Independent | title = Format Festival: Street photography steals the show}}
• Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour, Somerset House, London, 2012/2013. Curated by William Ewing.{{cite web|first1=Wallpaper|last1=Magazine|accessdate=2020-07-30|title='Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour' at Somerset House, London|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/cartier-bresson-a-question-of-colour-at-somerset-house-london|date=14 November 2012|website=Wallpaper}}
• iN-PUBLiC: An Exhibition of Street Photography, Thailand Creative and Design Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, 2013. In conjunction with the British Council.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcouncil.or.th/en/programmes/arts/past-projects/public-exhibition-street-photography |access-date=24 March 2016 |publisher=British Council |title=iN-PUBLiC: An Exhibition of Street Photography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213060930/http://www.britishcouncil.or.th/en/programmes/arts/past-projects/public-exhibition-street-photography |archive-date=February 13, 2015}}{{cite web | url = http://www.tcdc.or.th/exhibition/detail.php?ID=7996 | accessdate = 24 March 2016 | publisher = Thailand Creative and Design Centre | title = iN-PUBLiC: An Exhibition of Street Photography}}{{cite news | url = http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/25559_info_in-public-an-exhibition-of-street-photography.html | accessdate = 24 March 2016 | newspaper = Bangkok Post | title = In-Public: An Exhibition of Street Photography}} Photographs by In-Public members.
• In Public, Snickarbacken 7, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013.{{cite web | url = http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/olympus/events/olympus-sponsrar-cup-contemporary-urban-photography-presents-in-public-in-stockholm-a-street-photography-exhibition-42341 | date = 22 May 2013 | accessdate = 11 February 2015 | publisher = Olympus Corporation | title = Olympus sponsrar: CUP – Contemporary Urban Photography presents "In-Public – In Stockholm" - A Street Photography exhibition}}{{cite web | url = http://www.snickarbacken7.se/?p=309?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true | title = In Public | publisher = Snickarbacken 7 | accessdate = 23 March 2016}} Photographs by In-Public members.
• The Sharp Eye. In-Public in Mexico, Foto Mexico, Cine Tonalá, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015. Slideshow of photographs by In-Public members. Curated by Mark Powell, Carlos Álvarez Montero and Alfredo Esparza.{{cite web | url = http://centrodelaimagen.cultura.gob.mx/fotomexico/en/exhibitions/image-comunity/in-public.html | accessdate = 10 June 2016 | publisher = Centro de la Imagen | title = The Sharp Eye. iN-PUBLIC in Mexico: Group Show}}
• ? The Image as Question, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, 2016{{cite web|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|authorlink=Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|accessdate=2020-08-02|title=Seeing is believing: documentary photography from Francis Bacon to 9/11|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/28/photography-and-meaning-in-the-digital-age-from-911-to-fake-crime-scenes|date=28 September 2016|website=The Guardian}}
• Street. Life. Photography: Seven Decades of Street Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2018, during Triennial of Photography;{{cite web|accessdate=2020-07-30|title=Seven Decades of Street Photography at Deichtorhallen|url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/street-photography-exhibition-deichtorhallen|website=www.widewalls.ch}} KunstHausWien, Vienna, Austria, 2019/2020{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-06|title=Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Street--Life--Photography--Seven-Decades/FD485752DCECB0C3|website=MutualArt.com}}{{cite web|accessdate=2020-07-30|title=Street. Life. Photography – Kunst Haus Wien. Museum Hundertwasser|url=https://www.kunsthauswien.com/en/exhibitions/street-life-photography/|website=KunstHausWien}}

Einzig's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 6 prints (as of July 2020)
• Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY{{cite web|accessdate=2020-07-30|title=Caring for Brooklyn's Digital History - Brooklyn Historical SocietyBrooklyn Historical Society|url=https://www.brooklynhistory.org/blog/caring-for-brooklyns-digital-history|date=8 November 2019|website=Brooklyn Historical Society}}

• 1997: Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship

• In-Sight (2011) – 38 min documentary directed and edited by Nick Turpin, commissioned by Format for Format International Photography Festival, Derby, 2011. Includes an interview with Einzig, among others.

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