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Stieglitz, Alfred: Winter, Fifth Avenue

Talbot, William Henry Fox

Atget, Eugène: Shop Window: Tailor Dummies

Kertész, André: Self-Portrait, 1927

Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Evans, Walker: Window Display, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Lange, Dorothea: Policeman at a Street Meeting in San Francisco, California

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Photos

Stieglitz, Alfred: Winter, Fifth Avenue

Talbot, William Henry Fox

Atget, Eugène: Shop Window: Tailor Dummies

Kertész, André: Self-Portrait, 1927

Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Evans, Walker: Window Display, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Lange, Dorothea: Policeman at a Street Meeting in San Francisco, California

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Key People

Garry Winogrand

American photographer

Lee Friedlander

American photographer

Tillmans, Wolfgang

Wolfgang Tillmans

German photographer

Ruth Orkin

American photographer and filmmaker

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

American photographer