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Photography History #04 – Alfred Stieglitz: when a photograph stands between two worlds
Alfred Stieglitz’s 1907 The Steerage is a photograph about social distance and visual order. Its real history is more complicated, and more useful, than the familiar immigration symbol.
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Photography History #03 – Earthrise: the moment we saw home from the outside
William Anders made Earthrise from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968. The photograph changed more than our view of Earth; it changed the position from which we could think about home.
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Photography History #02 – Dorothea Lange: when one face becomes the memory of an era
Dorothea Lange’s 1936 Migrant Mother is more than a symbol of the Great Depression. It is a story of an encounter, seven exposures, disputed memories, and the responsibility that begins when a real person becomes an image.
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Photography History #01 – Henri Cartier-Bresson: the moment before the shoe touches the water
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1932 Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare is not compelling simply because a man jumps over water. It holds us in the fraction of a second before consequence.
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