Marvin E. Newman at Silverstein

Photographers have to earn a living, and one of the tests of their commitment to their art is how far they will stray from their ideals to pay the rent. "Marvin E. Newman: The Color Series," at Silverstein Photography through May 24, presents the work of an artist who was fortunate to have studied early on with some of the great photographers of the mid-century, who absorbed their aesthetic and social ideals, and who has drawn on their teachings throughout a long and successful career. Silverstein's second exhibition of Mr. Newman's work is mostly concerned with his color photography, much of it from the 1950s, when color was still pretty much a novelty.

Mr. Newman was born in New York in 1927, and first studied photography as an undergraduate at Brooklyn College in the mid-1940s.


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