New York School of Photography

The New York School of Photography was an amalgamation of 'a loosely defined group of photographers who lived and worked in New York City in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s'. Jane Livingston, author of 'The New York School: Photographs 1936–1963' (1992) sees the motifs for the Union in the conviction that photography in particular could be used to understand the conditions of the working class through a multitude of pictures and exhibition spaces To improve background information on watching movies and immigration from or staying in Europe. The New York School of Photography shared a number of influences, aesthetic assumptions, themes, and stylistic features, according to Livingston. Her work was shaped by humanism, a persistent style, photojournalistic techniques, the influence of 'film noir' and the photographers Lewis HINE, Walker EVANS and Henri CARTIER-BRESSON. The 'Photo League' was considered to be the predecessor, hence the personnel overlaps.

Key Photographers

Livingston selects as key exponents of the New York school of photography 

Diane ARBUS, Richard AVEDON, Alexey BRODOVITCH, Ted CRONER, Bruce DAVIDSON, Don DONAGHY, Louis FAURER, Robert FRANK, Sid GROSSMAN, William KLEIN, Saul LEITER, Leon LEVISTEIN, Helen LEVITT, Lisette MODEL, David VESTAL, and WEEGEE.

Other photographers said to be associated with the New York school are Ian CONNER, Morris ENGEL, Harold FEINSTEIN, Ernst HAAS, Arthur LEIPZIG, Ruth ORKIN, Walter ROSENBLUM, Louis STETTNER, Garry WINOGRAND, and Max YAVNO.

Photo books by New York School of Photography Exponents

  • ARBUS, Diane
    AVEDON, Richard
    BRODOVITCH, Alexey
    CONNER, Ian
    CRONER, Ted
    DAVIDSON, Bruce
    DONAGHY, Don
    ENGEL, Morris
    FAURER, Louis
    FEINSTEIN, Harold
    FRANK, Robert
    GROSSMAN, Sid
    HAAS, Ernst
    KLEIN, William
    LEIPZIG, Arthur
    LEITER, Saul
    LEVINSTEIN, Leon
    LEVITT, Helen
    MODEL, Lisette
    ORKIN, Ruth
    ROSENBLUM, Walter
    STETTNER, Louis
    VESTAL, David
    WEEGEE
    WINOGRAND, Garry
    YAVNO, Max

This volume, 'New Documents 1967', about an exhibition that was to give photography a new direction - coinciding with the emergence of the RAF in the then FRG - contains documents as well as photographs by Diane ARBUS, Lee FRIEDLANDER and Garry WINOGRAND.
19,80 €
SC with dust jacket, 19 x 24,5 cm., 106 pp., many color & b/w ills., English
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The photo book 'In the Beginning' covers the first seven years in the work of the American photographer Diane ARBUS. The monograph contains over 100 early photographs from 1956 to 1962, which clearly show the development of her typical, suggestive images.
39,80 € *
The famous monograph on the work of American photographer Diane ARBUS in German translation. The representative overview of her work complements the photographs with writings and interview passages and became itself a reference work and a book classic.
from 19,80 € Weight 0.9 kg
German reissue of the joint photo volume by photographer Richard AVEDON and writer James Baldwin - a 'milestone of the modern photo book', with accompanying 72-paged booklet. When 'Nothing Personal' was published in 1964 the book was very controversial.
48,00 € * Weight 2 kg
Volume #11 in the book series on legedary & rare photo volumes, 'Alexey BRODOVITCH. Ballet', reproduces each dynamic double-page spread from this rarely seen volume along with a contemporary essay by leading BRODOVITCH connoisseur Kerry William Purcell.
42,00 € *
Photo volume 'Life is Good & Good for You in New York' by William KLEIN is regarded as one of the most influential books in the last half-century - here reproduced in its entirety as brilliantly photographed & designed opus as a complete photobook study.
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5 x HC, 38 x 42 x 16,5 cm. in a five volume set: Vol.1 / Circus: 104 pp., 82 tritone ills.; Vol.2 / Brooklyn Gang: 120 pp., 95 tritone ills.; Vol.3 / Time of Change: 168 pp., 144 tritone ills.; Vol.4 / East 100th Street: 168 pp., 149 tritone ills.; Vol.5
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HC with dust jacket, 27 x 23,5 x 2 cm., 192 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., text language: English
148,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
'In Color' by Bruce DAVIDSON presents his personal selection from his lesser-known color archive. These images date back 56 years and represent the photographer's color career from various fields such as magazines & commercial projects as well as fashion.
from 58,00 € Weight 2.3 kg