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 photo volume set 'Seven Stories' by Robert FRANK is a collection of small volumes that represents a new stage in his practice. As always, his photographs and stories relate to life and milieu: houses in Mabou and New York or trips to China and Spain.
298,00 € *
'Subway', the new edition of 1986s original. In 1980 Bruce DAVIDSON began photographing the New York subway system. At first in black and white, but he soon realized that color film was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape.
298,00 € Weight 1.4 kg
'Die Amerikaner' is the German edition of this work that looked at the Americans from a new perspective and which revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. It was first published in 2008, on the occasion of the anniversary of the French original.
from 198,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Pb. in an envelope, 20,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm., 48 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
198,00 €
'Women' includes photographs by the famous photographers Peter LINDBERGH & Garry WINOGRAND: in addition to works from WINOGRAND's famous series 'Women are Beautiful', as well as previously unpublished pictures of LINDBERGH's fashion shoots on the street.
178,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Box (35 x 23,5 cm.), incl. 8 DVDs - four in PAL and four in NTSC format -, plus the book 'Frank Films' plus booklets 'Mew and my brother' & Pull my Daisy', English
150,00 € * Weight 2 kg
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
The large catalog volume 'Helen Levitt. Fotografien' combines both color photographs with black and white images from 70 years of her photographic activity. The impressive selection ranges from early works from the 1930s to color photos from the 1990s.
120,00 € * Weight 2.4 kg
The new out-of-print edition of 'A Way of Seeing' by Helen LEVITT impresses with high-quality reproductions. Since its first publication in 1965, this volume of b/w photographs from New York in the 1940s has been revered as a classic of street photography
85,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
HC with dust jacket, 25,5 x 33,5 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., b/w ills., 1.600 gr., text language: English
79,00 € *