ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN: “SELECT PICTURES FROM THE FSA PROJECT”
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Category Archives: Documentary Photography
An Interview with Walker Evans: ‘The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable’ (1974)
Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936 “I didn’t like the label that I unconsciously earned of being a social protest artist.” “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” George Eastman House, Image Magazine, Vol. 17., No.4, December, 1974, Originally Published in Yale Alumni Magazine, February, 1974. Walker Evans, the eminent American […]
Ben Shahn: Jim Crow, Suspicious Looks and an American Economic Collapse
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Billy Monk – “Cape Town Nightclub” (1967-1969)
Billy Monk worked as a bouncer in the notorious Catacombs club in the dock area of Cape Town during the 1960s. For just two years, 1967 to 1969, he captured the raw energy of the club, its decadence and tragedy, its humanity and joy. They provide an extraordinarily evocative glimpse of Cape Town’s little-seen […]
Jacob Holdt: American Pictures – A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States
A country which leads the fight for freedom and democracy ‘with liberty and justice for all’ on one side and a country of bigotry, selfish greed, racism, and rampant exploitation which leads to both physical and mental oppression and poverty on the other. American Pictures: A Foreigner’s Perspective on Social Injustice in the United States […]
Bruce Gilden – “Fresno”
In October 2010 Bruce Gilden completed the last leg of his work in Fresno, California. California has one of the highest rates of foreclosure in the United States and 21.7 percent of all the riskiest loans. Here, the housing prices peaked in early 2005 and started to decline in 2006.
WALKER EVANS: “DRIVE-BY PICTURES”
Walker Evans, pictures taken from a moving automobile or train. EXPLORE ALL WALKER EVANS ON ASX (© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
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Larry Clark – ‘Tulsa’ (1971)
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Bruce Gilden – “Everybody Street” (2011)
Director Cheryl Dunn was commissioned by the Seaport Museum New York to make a documentary about photographers who have used New York City street life as a common thread in their work. Produced by ALLDAYEVERYDAY, Everybody Street premiered at the museum in conjunction with the exhibit Alfred Stieglitz New York and was released in segments […]
An Interview with Enrique Metinides: Death, Gore and Crying at Night
“So I got used to seeing dead people—and more dead people—and I took their pictures. And we would go to where the dead person was, and since the authorities then the reporter do his work, we would go right inside the houses where the crime had occurred, on the street, in the factory, in a […]
Shelby Lee Adams: “All of Us”
The Napier Family, 1989 “I have an open easy rapport with so much and so many. The camera sees objectively, outwardly, we are taught. This is the obvious. The view camera became my specific tool in 1974; early on my subjects responded to it with ease and curiosity.” By Shelby Lee Adams “Compassion […]