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May Day, Union Square, New York City
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The focus of this photograph is the rank-and-file participants at a socialist May Day rally, rather than the politicians delivering the speeches. Members of the Photo League maintained that it was the…

Contributor:

Jerome Liebling

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1948

Subjects:

Photography, Holidays, Community, Leisure

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Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of men, women, and children seated on the steps of a large public monument with nude classical figures and a winged horse atop a circular base.
Good Friday
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Meyer is best known for his role as a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in photography, including the practice of digitally combining two or more photographs to form a single image. He…

Contributor:

Pedro Meyer

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1984

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Photography, Portrait, Children, Christianity, Holidays

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Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of a wide-eyed baby with mouth open and ferns and flowers on their head.
Yom Kippur, East River, New York City
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Though this photograph of Orthodox Jews at the East River has long been captioned as having been taken on Yom Kippur, it is much more likely that it was taken on the first afternoon of Rosh Hashanah…

Contributor:

Robert Frank

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1955

Subjects:

Photography, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Cities, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of men in hats and suits and one boy in skullcap outside with their backs turned away from the camera, looking toward the river.