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Connections:
People looking through windows
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1.Eugène Atget
1900
A L'Homme Armé, 25 rue des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris

Albumen silver print, from glass negative
21.3 x 17.4 cm (8 3/8 x 6 7/8 ins) (image) 35.4 x 27.3 cm (13 15/16 x 10 3/4 ins) (mount)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mrs. Walter Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.515
 
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 292-293
 
LL/40450
2.Dorothea Lange
1936
Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town

Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in
 
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (X1167)
 
Printed ca. 1950. Photographer's stamp on verso.
 
LL/13181
3.Klavdij Sluban
2003
Latvia
[Other Shores - The Baltic Sea (2001-2005)]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Klavdij Sluban
LL/15395
4.Dorothea Lange
1936, 1 August
Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas working as migratory workers.

Gelatin silver print
LIFE
Dorothea Lange/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, 50700805
 
LL/32183
5.Rae Russel
1954
(Boy at Bus Window)

Gelatin silver print
13 1/2 x 9 1/8
 
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2962
6.Robert Doisneau
1948
Un regard Oblique

Gelatin silver print
Staley+Wise Gallery
LL/5578
7.S.J. Schweig (1905-?)
1948-1950
[Looking out of a porthole]
[Photo Service of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem. United Israel Campaign]

Gelatin silver print
17 x 12 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4189
 
LL/47967
8.Daniel Frasnay
1967, May
Magritte dans son atelier de Bruxelles

Gelatin silver print
20.1 x 21 cm
 
Piasa
Photographies, 28 October 2011, Lot 90
 
Légende et cachet du photographe au dos.
 
LL/44439
9.Leland Rice
1968
Volkswagen With Figure
Source requested
© Leland Rice; Courtesy the artist and Michael Dawson Gallery
 
Photo Synthesis
Colin Westerbeck
 
"The Visual Dialogue Foundation: Vintage Photographs by Judy Dater, Oliver Gagliani, Leland Rice, and Don Worth, 1968-1978" is at the Michael Dawson Gallery through April 28
 
The conversation that the Visual Dialogue Foundation wanted to strike up was, according to a 1972 statement, between an "older generation" of photographers and younger ones "groping for a position of relevance to geometrically changing times."
 
The wide-angle lens that Leland Rice used for the photograph shows the strain on the geometry. It permitted him to keep the misty landscape - a subject inherited from earlier generations of Northern California photography - in perspective while also capturing the "gothic" effect (as Rice calls it) of the face in the car window. Rice and his contemporaries wanted to make more inclusive images. They stretched not only the photographic frame, but the historical framework in which photography was discussed. To achieve this, Rice has also written essays and curated exhibitions.
 
Half the pictures by Rice in this show were taken through windows, as if, whether he was inside or outside, he needed to bring different points of view together. Like the seeming distortion in the Volkswagen's image, jumps in scale or optical eccentricities in other photographs make you wonder whether he wasn't tripping out in the darkroom. But all these photographs are realities seen in an unaltered state.
 
[Originally published in West Magazine : April 1, 2007, p.9]
 
LL/18227
10.Klavdij Sluban
1995-2001
Fleury-Mérogis, France
[Prisons for young offenders]

Gelatin silver print
Provided by the artist - Klavdij Sluban
LL/15383
11.Elliott Erwitt
1955
Colorado, USA

Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
 
LL/41865
12.Mike Abrahams
1990
The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland at Strabane. A child in a caravan with the British Army border check point behind
[Northern Ireland]

Gelatin silver print, fibre
15 x 12 in
 
Provided by the artist - Mike Abrahams
© 2007 Mike Abrahams - All Rights Reserved
 
LL/23306
13.Bruno Barbey
1964
Rome, Italy (Four Men through Car Windows)
Barry Singer Gallery
LL/2745
14.Clem Albers
1942, 1 April
Lone Pine, California. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry arrives here by train prior to being transferred by bus to Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center.
[War Relocation Authority]

Black and white image
National Archives and Records Administration
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-210-G-A304
 
LL/47358
15.Peter Suschitzky
1959
Gare du Nord

Gelatin silver print
30.4 x 40 cm
 
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Courtesy of Pierre Bergé & Associés (Auction, June 16, 2010, Lot: 707)
 
Tirage argentique en noir et blanc signé, situé et daté au dos, postérieur.
 
LL/37271
16.Ruth Orkin
n.d.
Refugees

Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in
 
Fay Gold Gallery
LL/5347
17.Louis Stettner
1958 (taken)
Penn Station

Gelatin silver print
11 1/2 x 17 1/4 ins
 
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Inventory no: 0018078
 
Signed, titled, and dated with "For Milton" in pencil on print verso.
 
LL/38032
18.Unidentified photographer
1915
The Great War. First World War. English 'Pierrettes' with wigs and white collars in a bus collecting money for the wounded soldiers.

Gelatin silver print
National Archive of the Netherlands / Nationaal Archief
Spaarnestad Photo, SFA022802565
 
LL/39448
19.Arthur Leipzig
1952
Subway Car
Private collection of Henri van der Tol
LL/47746
20.Marc Riboud
1957
Windows, Beijing

Gelatin silver print
30 x 40 cm
 
S K Josefberg Studio (CLOSED - 2004)
LL/1330
21.Henri Cartier-Bresson
1948
Peking

Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 / 16 x 20
 
Peter Fetterman Gallery
LL/479
   
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