Should you skip the always colorful Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue this Sunday, make a visit instead to East 57^th Street, on Saturday. Photography galleries along this luxe shopping strip are currently presenting black and white images that offer stark relief from the color that usually prevails.

At Pace/Macgill, work by one of the most influential figures in contemporary photography is now on view. Tod Papageorge, who took over as head of the graduate photography program at Yale after Walker Evans' death in 1975, has shaped a star-studded generation that includes such luminaries as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Lê, John Pilson and Justine Kurland. One of Papageorge's early triumphs was to be included in the 1967 "New Documents" exhibition at MoMA, but he has not had a solo exhibition since 1985. His work is currently being "rediscovered" in a wave of rediscoveries that has included Garry Winogrand, one of Papageorge's shooting buddies during the 1960s. This winter Aperture will publish American Sports, 1970, or How We Spent the War in Vietnaman. Photograph below: Shea Stadium by Tod Papageorge, from American Sports, courtesy of Pace/Macgilll Gallery.

Passing Through Eden-Photographs of Central Park
Photographys by Tod Papageorge
Pace/Macgill Gallery (32 E 57th St 9th fl)
Though May 12, 2007.

Jed Devine: Under the Bridges
Bonnie Benrubi Gallery 41 E 57th St 13th fl
Through May 5, 2007

Joseph Mills: Inner City
Cohen Amador Gallery 41 E 57th St 6th fl
Through June 2, 2007

Helmut Newton
Cook Fine Art 1063 Madison Ave
Through April 27, 2007

William Klein
Howard Greenberg Gallery 41 E 57th St, Ste 1406
Through May 26, 2007

Jakob Tuggener Ball Nights 1934-1950
Lawrence Miller Gallery 20 W 57th St 3rd fl
Through May 5, 2007

Photograph, left: Jakob Tuggener: Bar, Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, New Year's Eve 1959/60, courtesy of Lawrence Miller Gallery

Marilyn Bridges: In the Footsteps of Alexander
Throckmorton Fine Art
April 19 - June 16, 2007
Opening reception: Thursday April 19, 6 - 8 pm

Ralston Crawford (1906-1978): Photographs
Zabriskie Gallery
March 13, 2007 - April 21, 2007