“One of the favoured words in the photographic literature of today is ‘documentary’”
(Edward Steichen 1938)
Dorothea Lange‘Migrant Mother’. 1936
Walker Evans‘Kitchen Wall, Alabama’, 1936
Walker Evans‘Allie Mae Burroughs’, 1936.
Walker Evans‘Washing and Dining Area of Burroughs's Home’,1936
Walker Evans‘Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1935
Paintings by Edward Hopper
Henri Cartier Bresson
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Robert Frank‘Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey’, 1958.
Robert Frank ‘U.S. 285, New Mexico’, 1956
Robert Frank‘Rodeo, New York City’, 1955
Robert Frank‘Route 66’, 1957
Robert Frank1957
‘Galax, Virginia’, 1962.
Lee Friedlander
Sweet Emma Barrett, 1958
Lee Friedlander‘Washington D.C.’, 1962
Lee Friedlander‘Nashville’, 1963
Lee Friedlander‘New York’, 1968
Lee Friedlander‘Route 9W, New York’, 1969
Garry Winogrand
‘Untitled’, 1963 ‘Albuquerque, New Mexico’, 1958
“I don’t have anything to say in any picture.. I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”
Garry WinograndImages from ‘Women are beautiful’,1975
Diane Arbus‘Blaze Starr at home’, 1964
Contact Sheet of
‘Child with a Toy Hand Grenade
in Central Park’ by Diane Arbus