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Framed: Street Photography from the Collection
February 5, 2011–April 17, 2011
February 5, 2011–April 17, 2011

Image Credit: Joel Meyerowitz, Young Dancer, 34th and 9th Avenue, 1978. Color coupler (chromogenic) print, 20 x 16 inches. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1982.3.46. © Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery.
This small exhibition considers the various ways in which photographers work with the unpredictable nature of the street. Beginning with Eugene Atget, who documented Paris around the turn of the 20th century, this show features street photographs made by such key figures as Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Frank Paulin.




