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A 2005 John Szarkowski profile from the Vanity Fair archives.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2005/1/image-maker

Dorothea Lange. Riley Savage, 1953.

Dorothea Lange. Cafe near Pinole, CA. 1956 Bruce Davidson. Boy and Girl at Cigarette Vending Machine. 1959 Lee Friedlander. Self portrait, New Orleans, LA. 1966

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ensdorf Mine, Saarland, Germany, 1979.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/arts/design/becher-met-review-photography-industry.html

Some of the earliest photos of the world from above. Early in the twentieth century German apothecary Dr. Julis Neubronner strapped cameras to pigeons.

More here.

Photo by Larry Clark Photo of Haruomi Hosono

I much prefer the work of Hosono!

Heinscher. Glazier at work, 1946.

This photo is from the Wikipedia entry for “glazier.”

From the German Federal Archives.

Bicycles in Luzarra, Italy. From Paul Strand’s Un Paese.

Lee Friedlander. John Benson and Richard Benson.

I’m unsure of the year but from Friedlander’s the Mind and the Hand.

Jack Delano. Textile mill. New Bedford, MA, 1941.

This looks like a Chris Van Allsburg illustration to me.

Étienne Jules Marey. Air movement study, 1901.

Miles Davis by Irving Penn

Robert Adams. Photo by Kerstin Adams, probably. Probably taken in Colorado's Pawnee National Grassland. Photo from the National Gallery of Art twitter feed.

Adams here with a big old Plaubel Makina.

Robert Adams’s Sinar view camera.

Photograph from the website built to accompany his Yale retrospective, The Place We Live. It’s kind of a miracle that website is still around.

Two sides of Richard Avedon and Lee Friedlander. Top photograph by Maria Friedlander.

Mt. St. Helens.

Lee Friedlander. Newark, New Jersey. 1962.

From Lee’s new book and show, Signs.

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