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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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Paul McDonough, Whose Photographs Evoked Street Life, Dies at 84 • Apr. 5, 2025, 10:12 AM ET (New York Times)

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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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