1950-1970

Robert Frank’s “From the Bus” (1958)

In the summer of 1958, several months before The Americans made its debut in France, Frank began experimenting with moving pictures.

CIVIL RIGHTS MUG SHOTS (“WE SHALL OVERCOME”)

The Montgomery County Alabama Sheriff’s Office discovered arrest logs and photographs from the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) and the Freedom Rides (1961).

William Eggleston: Making a Name, the Southern Way

The photographer once stated dryly that the centripetal composition of all of his pictures was based on the Confederate Flag.

Ed van der Elsken – “Love on the Left Bank” (1954)

Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken relocated to Paris in 1950. There he found a bohemian group and began closely following and photographing their everyday movements, intertwining fiction and reality in a new genre of photography book. The book focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at the time when the area was […]

WILLIAM GEDNEY: “BROOKLYN” (1967)

William Gedney, largely unknown in art world, outside of a few colleagues and curators, including John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus.

NACIO JAN BROWN: “RAG THEATER” (1969-1973)

“There is a sense in which this kind of photography involves taking something from people without giving them something in return.”

The Twisted Metal Death Parade of America in the 1950-60’s

Courtesy of THESE AMERICANS

William Eggleston: Who’s Afraid of Magenta, Yellow and Cyan?

Eggleston brought MoMA around eight carousels of slides made around 1970 from which Szarkowski chose seventy-five for the exhibition and, of those, forty-eight for publication in the Guide.

KKK Cross Burnings, the Garden of Eden and Florida Family Life in the 1950’s

Photographs from the area around Tallahassee, Florida in the 1950’s. A selection from the Red Kerce Collection. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.

Sucking in a Taste of An America You Will Never Experience: The Exceptional Times of Roger Steffen’s ‘The Family Acid’

Within Steffen’s book, we are not confronted with the problems of America, but rather the problem of what America could have been. A chance operation to see love, commitment, individuality and that sum of its parts made whole even if for but a very short time By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 Mystic America. America […]

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