“Law & Disorder,” a retrospective of documentary photographer Ed Eckstein’s work, continues through Jan. 13, 2024, Arthaus at the Mezz, Renaissance Allentown Hotel.

Selected photos capturing protest history from the 1960s to the present from Eckstein’s “Sign Language” series are on display along with “Architecture of Justice,” the artist’s commissioned series of photographs of Lehigh and Northampton counties’ iconic courthouses in silver gelatin prints.

Eckstein’s “#10” (2022; acid free pigment paper/silver gelatin, 13 in. x 19 in.) provides a view from the bench of Courtroom 1 in the newly-renovated Northampton County Courthouse.

“The courthouse pictures were a grant from the Lehigh Valley Arts Commission,” says Eckstein.

“I’ve been photographing people all over the place holding their signs promoting their various interests and what not,” says Eckstein about his independent “Sign Language” project.

Since 1963, the well-traveled documentarian photographed protestors confronting issues from Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, Roe v. Wade, through today’s polarized politics.

The self-taught photographer, based in Easton, who describes himself as a “self-unemployed” photographer, has had his work published in the New York Times, Time Life publications, among others. He provided commercial photography services to various corporate clients.

Arthaus at the Mezz is operated by RE:find and curator Deborah Rabinsky.

Ed Eckstein, “Law & Disorder,” through Jan. 13, 2024, Arthaus at the Mezz, mezzanine level gallery, Renaissance Allentown Hotel, 12 N. Seventh St., Allentown. Open 24 hours. 610-841-4866; www.allentownarts.com

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