Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)
A pioneer of historic documentation, Berenice Abbott devoted herself to photographing the great city
of New York. She recorded the changing times and Architecture of the 1930's. Today more
that half the buildings she documented have been demolished.
Mary Ellen Mark
Portrait photographs from one of the masters of photography. Celebrities, People of India, Mexico,
Vietnam Circus, Street Performers.
Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt's work consists primarily of dynamic and lyrical photographs of the spontaneous social
life of New York City streets. Since the late 1930s she has photographed in a straightforward style,
in black-and-white and in color, often returning to the same neighborhoods. Her concerns are with the
unforeseen, fleeting gestures that occur when the brief and graceful coming-together of people
constitutes an event.
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
This American Documentary Photographer captured the essence of the displaced rural farm workers and
migrant workers in America during The Great Depression of the 30's.
Features: Migrant Mother, Migratory Cotton Picker, White Angel Breadline, Grapes of Wrath,
Child and Her Mother.
Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
Portraits and People who lived odd, peculiar or unusual lives on the edge of society.
Barbara Morgan (1900-1992)
B & W pictures of dancers.
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
A Transcendentalist thinker of her day, at age 48 she picked up a camera and began to create.
Enduring criticism from her peers, she stuck to her guns. In 1984, she was proudly introduced into
the International Photography Hall of Fame.
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