Post War Photography

POST WAR PHOTOGRAPHY

The Camera Goes to War: Vietnam
This path-breaking show celebrates the brave combat photographers who documented the Vietnam War and whose searing imagery eventually turned the tide of public opinion against the war. A diverse multinational group, their involvement spanned decades, from the French Indochina conflict in 1945-54 to the final helicopter evacuation of the American embassy in 1975. Photojournalists working in Vietnam enjoyed unprecedented access to all theaters of war, which proved deadly: in all, 135 photojournalists died in Indochina. This exhibition is made up of rare vintage press prints and original wire photos, many of which appeared on the front pages of the nation’s newspapers

Arbus, Frank, Penn: Masterworks of post-War American Photography
Featuring three pillars of American photography, this exhibit comprises 37 glorious vintage prints of many of the most iconic images of the post-War era, including Diane Arbus’s “Identical Twins,” Robert Frank’s “Trolley, New Orleans,” and Irving Penn’s “Mountain Children, Cuzco, Peru.”

©Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon was the SNCC photographer who covered many of the major Freedom Movement campaigns and projects. This is his narrative and a collection of some of the most moving and powerful images to come out of the Movement.

©Bill Owens Archive

Bill Owens: Suburbia
Bill Owens' slyly subversive photo-essay on tract-home culture and the American Dream was an instant classic when it was first published in 1972, and has never looked fresher nor more relevant than it does today.

©Elliott Erwitt/
Magnum Photos

Elliott Erwitt: Dog Dogs
Following the publication of his book "Son of Bitch," he became famous as a maker of funny pictures where dogs play the starring role, In his vast range of sentiment, and in his easygoing but precise mastery of the abstract elements of composition, Elliott Erwitt is an acute observer of the canine world.

Paul Caponigro: the Polaroid Years
Paul Caponigro is America’s leading elder statesman of landscape and still life photography. It was Ansel Adams who introduced Caponigro to the Polaroid Corporation, and thus began a fruitful multi-year collaboration between Caponigro and Polaroid. The rare vintage prints in this path-breaking exhibition, originally from Polaroid’s extensive corporate collection, cover the years 1959-1968, which was arguably the most prolific decade in Caponigro’s storied career.

©Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
For four years in the 1960s, Danny Lyon was a member of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. He emerged with one of the defining photo-essays of the 1960s, which seared motorcycle counterculture into the American psyche, and helped inspire the film Easy Rider.

Bill Owens: Working/Leisure
The 72 photographs in Bill Owens: Working/Leisure – narrated in the subjects’ own words – capture Americans hard at work and equally hard at play. With 40 years' hindsight, they stand as individual pieces in the grand puzzle that is the American Dream.