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Midcentury Photography & Modern Self-Portraiture Take Center Stage At Two New Exhibits At The Met
14 photos
Walker Evans, "Corner of State and Randolph Streets, Chicago: (1946)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990/ © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helen Levitt, "New York" (ca. 1939)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2020
U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps, "Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific" (July 25, 1946)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2004
Mario De Biasi, "Train Station, Bologna" (1952)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Archivio Mario De Biasi, 2018/© Archivio Mario De Biasi
Ernest Cole, "Riders on a Moving Train near Johannesburg, South Africa" (1962–66)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Funds from various donors, 2019/© Ernest Cole Family Trust
Don McCullin, "My First Day in Vietnam, Mekong Delta, Vietnam" (1964)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society, Jennifer and Philip Maritz, Jade Lau, Stephanie and Robert Olmsted, and The Tianaderrah Foundation Gifts, 2019 /© Don McCullin
Aaron Rose, "Untitled," from the series "Gem Spa" (1968–69)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2018/ © Aaron Rose
Cindy Sherman, "Untitled #87" (1981)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. Bequest, 1995/ © Cindy Sherman
Ellen Carey, "Untitled" (1987)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sherman and Jacqueline Lowy Foundation, 1991/© Ellen Carey
Justine Cooper, "Trap - self portrait" (1998)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1999/© Justine Cooper
Mike Kelley, "Ahh...Youth!" (1991)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Helena and Per Skarstedt, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019/ © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Tom Friedman, "Untitled" (1998)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 1999/© Tom Friedman
Nikki S. Lee, "The Ohio Project (8)" (1999)
Gift of the artist, 2000/ © Nikki S. Lee
Qualeasha Wood, "The [Black] Madonna/Whore Complex" (2021)
Courtesy of Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York/© Qualeasha Wood
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