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After immigrating to the United States in 1937, Ellen Auerbach continued her work as a children’s photographer. As a guest of the artist Fairfield Porter, she visited Great Spruce Head Island in Maine…
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…
Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
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…
How does it look, the yellow patch
With a red or black Star-of-David
On the arm of a Jew in Naziland—
Against the white ground of a December snow?
How would it look, a yellow patch
With a red or…
William Zorach created Spirit of the Sea at the request of the City of Bath, which wanted a fountain for a city park. The sculpture is similar to others in his oeuvre in that it consists of a figure…
In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…
Late in his career, Guston turned from abstract expressionism to figurative art, creating iconoclastic, allegorical paintings. Moon is a combination of still-life, self-portrait, and landscape. In the…
