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Depicting the gritty streets of New York: these artists "consciously broke many of the accepted rules of photography, [yet] shared a common vision and objective: to record their personal responses to the vivid and often violent city surrounding them.".

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING in New York City in the years between the publication of Walker Evans' American Photographs in 1938 and Robert Frank's The Americans 20 years later profoundly changed the course of American photography. This fertile period in history is celebrated in an exhibition of some 75 images by 20 prominent artists, including key works by Evans and Frank; candid studies of children by Helen Levitt: vibrant and gritty compositions of the streets and street life by Louis Faurer and Ted Croner; evocative and lyrical views of the urban landscape by Roy DeCarava, Saul Leiter, and David Vestal; bold depictions of New York bars and nightclubs by Lisette Model; photographs of joy and alienation at Coney Island by Sid Grossman, Leon Levinstein, and Brace Davidson; and disturbing photographs of New York's latent violence by...

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