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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…
The street photographer Garry Winogrand said he was motivated by wanting “to see what the world looks like in photographs.” He didn’t regard his photos as identical with the reality of the scenes he…
Leon Levinstein, widely admired for his street photography, held himself at a distance from the art world and never produced a book of his work. He kept his day job as a graphic designer and went out…
Fink is well known for his photographs of upper-crust Americans at weddings, parties, and other occasions where wealth and status are on display, as in this photograph where objects take priority over…
Zoltan Kluger was one of the most influential and prolific photographers in Palestine and, after the establishment of the state, during the first decade of Israel’s existence, as attested to by his…
Paul Goldman was notable for keeping his distance from his subjects, perhaps as a show of respect. He photographed many of Israel’s early leaders. Here, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister…
In this photograph of Israeli beatniks in a night club, Paul Schutzer captured a different side of Israeli life from that usually portrayed in the Israeli and international media. His partying…
Weegee, known for his boundless energy and the wildly diverse subject matter to which he was attracted as a photographer, shot this photograph on a hot Saturday in July 1940 for the left-wing tabloid…
Saul Leiter was known for his photographs of street life in New York City and for his pioneering work in color photography, but he also took more intimate pictures of his family and friends. This…
The ethos of the Photo League, the cooperative that Sid Grossman co-founded, was that documenting everyday life was a way not only of recording social progress but also contributing to it, by helping…
