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

'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
Slipcased DVD (PAL,) approx. 75 min., English
0,00 €
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 € *
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 € *
'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
DVD (PAL), 82 min., 16:9, English with German subtitles
17,80 € *
re-edit, HC with dust jacket, as issued, 21 x 27 x 2 cm., 168 pp., highly illustrated, text language: English
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
2nd printrun, slipcased set of 2 linen bound HCs, each with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 388 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
This so far only monograph on Sid GROSSMAN, a comprehensive survey of his life and work, includes early social documentary work (1930s), more personal and dynamic street photography (1940s), and late experiments with abstraction in b/w and in color.
from 38,00 € Weight 1.7 kg
'Contacts' is a collection of William KLEIN’s famous contact sheets. The most important works of this great artist have been chosen and printed from these contact sheets, which can be either detached and framed or kept in their original form in the book.
29,80 € *
'Peru' is of great historical importance in the history of photography. Some images of this series were known, but previously the entire series had been seen by only a few people. The volume presents the complete sequence of images, based on the original.
50,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
The photo volume 'Pangnirtung' by Robert FRANK is about a village in the Arctic Circle. However, there are no people to be seen in the images. In a harsh yet lyrical tone, he shows the deserted harbor, a haberdashery, a telephone booth and the cemetery.
65,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'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
This out-of-print edition of 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK comes from Chrsitian Verlag and was published 30 years after the photographs were taken. The book has been published in various editions and languages (including Chinese, Greman and French).
0,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
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 € *
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.
0,00 € *
HC with dust jacket, 24 x 25 x 4,5 cm., 196 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
Slipcased pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., 39 b/w ills., text language: English
35,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Slipcased pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 25 x 1 cm., 52 pp., 43 ills., text language: English
35,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
'London/Wales' by Robert FRANK combines two series of images whose contrast could not be stronger. With these photographs, he tells the timeless story of a society in transition. They are early testimonies to his search for new forms of poetic photography
58,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
'The Unseen Saul Leiter' shows for the first time 76 rediscovered works from an extraordinary photographic treasure trove of more than 40,000 color slides left by the American photographer at his death, only a fraction of which ever saw the light of day.
from 39,90 € Weight 1 kg
HC (no dust jacket, as issued),
58,00 € *
'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
re-edit, Otabind pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 102 pp., 160 tritone b/w ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13,5 x 23,5 x 3,5 cm., 432 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
24,00 € *
English catalog (2nd) for the Helen LEVITT retrospective exhibitions in London & in New York, containing around 130 of the most famous works, some of which are shown for the first time. She's one of the earliest representatives of 'New Color Photography'
39,90 €
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
The images by Helen LEVITT in out-of-print 'One, Two, Three, More' are a unique & irreplaceable look at New York street life from mid-1930s to late 1940s: children play, lovers, husbands and wives flirt, young mothers with their babies, and lonely old men
68,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
German catalog edition, published in the occasion of the Helen Levitt retrospective in Vienna.
0,00 € *
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 € *
HC, 30,5 x 25,5 x 3 cm., 240 pp., 22 color & 90 b/w ills., text language: English
0,00 € *
'Shooting Off My Mouth Spitting Into The Mirror' is an unconventional biography of the work of Lisette MODEL (1901-1983), in which the author Eugenia Parry offers meta-fictional monologues with the artist and us with a new interpretation of the work.
24,80 € *
Re-edit, HC with dust jacket, 21 x 20 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 73 b/w ills., bilingual text: French / English
16,00 € *
SC with dust jacket, 19 x 24,5 cm., 106 pp., many color & b/w ills., English
0,00 € *
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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The accompanying catalog of the retrospective of the work by Saul LEITER features his early black-and-white as well as color photographs and, for the first time, his fashion photography, also the overpainted nudes, his paintings as well as his sketchbooks
49,90 € Weight 1.4 kg
Actual print run, linen bound HC with dust jacket, 20 x 20 x 2 cm., 168 pp., 100 color ills., text language: English
0,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
The 80 b/w images in the book 'Paris' by Robert FRANK indicate how his experiences in the 'new world' have sharpened his eye: the city streets as a stage for human activity. The work clearly refers to Eugene ATGET and invokes the tradition of the flâneur.
50,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
With his book 'The Americans', in which he examines everyday life in the U.S. to show people plagued by racism, mistreated by its politicians, and jaded by a rapidly growing consumer culture, Robert FRANK changed the course of the 20th century photography
0,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
'Ernst Haas. Color Correction' intends to correct the somewhat blurred image of his color work. Criticism overlooks the astonishing sensibility of his personal work, which constantly accompanied his commissioned photography, being more radical & ambiguous
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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
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
The most comprehensive publication so far of Helen LEVITT's photographs from the New York Subway contains many works that are being published here for the first time. These pictures began alongside Walker EVANS in 1938, in 1978 she to the underground.
75,00 € * Weight 0.6 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
Box with DVD-ROM, 13,5 x 18,5 x 4 cm.
0,00 € *
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 €
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 28,5 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., b/w ills., text language: English. Aperture, 2016.
0,00 € *
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
Slip cased pb., 20,5 x 25 x 1 cm., 48 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
35,00 € *
Pb. in an envelope, 20,5 x 27,5 x 1 cm., 48 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
198,00 €
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 3,5 cm., 336 pp., 361 b/w ills., text language: English
49,90 € *
Erstauflage des Klassikers der Straßenfotografie von Helen LEVITT. 'A Way of Seeing' zeigt Strassenszenen aus dem New York des 1940er Jahre. Eine Fotobuch-Ikone, die 2020 in einer Neuauflage mit zusätzlichen Aufnahmen in sehr guter Druckqualität erschien.
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The black-and-white photographic in the volume 'Valencia' by Robert FRANK show daily life in a fishing village. His depiction is so natural and clear that further verbal explanations seem superfluous; they simply reflect 'the humanity of the moment'.
55,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'Father - Photographer' shows images by Henry FRANK - Alps & lakes in Switzerland, views of Venice, Pisa & Florence, and depictions of his family & friends. Designed by Robert FRANK, it reveals his father to be both a talented photographer and a traveller
35,00 € * Weight 0.4 kg