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This exhibition explores the role of the photographer as a purposeful observer and editor of everyday experience.The Modern Photographer features some 50 photographs and photogravures by notable photographers of the first half of the 20th century, including Ruth Bernhard, Walker Evans, John Gutmann, Dorothea Lange, Andr� Kert�sz, P.H. Polk, Peter Stackpole, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Weegee, and other artists. Drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition emphasizes the ability of the photographer to both craft and chronicle reality. The images on view range from abstract still-lifes, such as Paul Strand�s Wire Wheel, New York (1920) or Ruth Bernhard�s Lifesavers (1930), to documentary images of Depression-era life, be it the desolate dust bowl farms of Arthur Rothstein or the San Francisco streets of John Gutmann.
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