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Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955

For anyone who is interested in the history of photojournalism "Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1965," is an indispensable book. As the title suggests, the this is not simply one more portfolio of great press photographs, but actually reproduces the photographs as they originally appeared when published in magazines from 1955 until […]
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Diane Arbus and the New Documents Exhibition

In 1967, the Museum of Modern Art in New York unveiled "New Documents." It featured the work of three photographers who would became significant and influential artists of the 20th Century – Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. It was the only major exhibition of Arbus' work in her lifetime. Unfortunately, no exhibition catalogue […]
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The Ongoing Moment

Geoff Dyer's "The Ongoing Moment" is a enjoyable, insightful meander through the common themes that have united and divided the artistic visions of great photographers. Dyer has both a discerning eye and an encyclopedic familiarity with photographers and their backstories, which he uses to carefully weave context into their work.
Disappearing Witness

In Search of Things as They Are

Disappearing Witness by Gretchen Garner. Johns Hopkins University Press. Gretchen Garner thinks documentary photography contributes something that is worth preserving. For much of the 20th Century,  that would have seemed like a ridiculously self-evident perspective. Documentary photography, or more precisely, what Garner refers to as spontaneous witness, dominated photography for most of the past century […]