The Church in Sag Harbor presents an opening reception on Saturday, April 4, from 6 to 7:30 PM, featuring a first look at the 2026 Spring Exhibition “A Thousand Words: Photography at The New Yorker.”
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi, the first Visuals Editor of The New Yorker, the show explores the work of ten staff photographers for the periodical: Ruven Afanador, Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, Gilles Peress, Sylvia Plachy, Platon, Robert Polidori, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller, and Max Vadukul.
The New Yorker magazine celebrated its 100th Anniversary in February 2025. For almost 70 years, only illustrations were used for articles in the publication. In 1992, when Tina Brown was named Editor-in-Chief, she broke with tradition by introducing photography, immediately naming Richard Avedon as the magazine’s first exclusive staff photographer and subsequently naming Elisabeth Biondi as its first Visuals Editor in 1994, where she remained through 2013.
To learn more about the exhibition, visit the exhibition page.