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78:, John Szarkowski "suggested that until then the aim of documentary photography had been to show what was wrong with the world, as a way to generate interest in rectifying it. But this show signaled a change. 'In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends,' he wrote. 'Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it.'" The photographs of Friedlander and Winogrand were closer to each other than the work of Arbus was to either of them. Szarkowski explained that what "unites these three photographers is not style or sensibility; each has a distinct and personal sense of the use of photography and the meanings of the world. What is held in common is the belief that the world is worth looking at, and the courage to look at it without theorizing." This was "photography that emphasized the pathos and conflicts of modern life presented without editorializing or sentimentalizing but with a critical, observant eye." 62:, were sceptical. Neither Arbus, Friedlander nor Winogrand "was well known at the time but all of them came to be considered among the leading talents of their generation" and "considered among the most decisive for the generations of photographers that followed them." 48:
and is said to have "represented a shift in emphasis" and "identified a new direction in photography: pictures that seemed to have a casual, snapshot-like look and subject matter so apparently ordinary that it was hard to categorize".
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The work in the exhibition, "documentary photography, but not as it was then known or understood", was "considered radical at the time" and "out of step with the times". Critics, such as Jacob Deschin writing in
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by Winogrand was also included at venues other than MoMA where it was removed because of technical difficulties.
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comprised 94 black-and-white photographs (32 by Arbus, 30 by Friedlander and 32 by Winogrand) shot using
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The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies
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1967 art exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art
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Arbus / Friedlander / Winogrand: New Documents, 1967.
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documentary photography
Museum of Modern Art
John Szarkowski
Diane Arbus
Lee Friedlander
Garry Winogrand
Robert Frank
The Americans
35 mm
carousel tray
slides
Museum of Modern Art
Goucher College
McMaster University
State University of New York
Cornell University
Long Island University
Dartmouth College
Concordia College
Wittenburg University
University of Missouri
Krannert Art Museum
University of Illinois
Amherst College
Wesleyan University
University of Notre Dame
San Francisco Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
ISBN
978-0870709555

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