'Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder' is scheduled for October 18, 2026, through April 4, 2027, and features more than 100 photographs by over 50 artists.
Drawn entirely from Judy Glickman Lauder’s collection, the exhibition explores the concept of presence through portraits, landscapes, photojournalism and cityscapes. The participating artists include Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon, Gordon Parks and James Van Der Zee.
Among the announced works are Dorothea Lange’s 'Migrant Mother (Florence Owens Thompson),' made in Nipomo, California, in 1936, and Gordon Parks’s 'American Gothic (Portrait of Ella Watson),' made in Washington, DC, in 1942.
On October 17, 2026, Judy Glickman Lauder will discuss her photography collection in conversation with Sarasota Art Museum’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lacie Barbour.
Lauder’s interest in photography began after she posed for her father, Irving Bennett Ellis, whose images of her growth from infancy to adulthood led to a Kodak 'Turn Around' television commercial during the 1960s and sparked her lifelong love of the medium. In the 1970s, she acquired her first professional camera, photographed cityscapes and traveled to Europe to document sites related to the Holocaust.
