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Atget, Eugène: Shop Window: Tailor Dummies
Kertész, André: Self-Portrait, 1927
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Evans, Walker: Window Display, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Lange, Dorothea: Policeman at a Street Meeting in San Francisco, California
Vintage Leica photo camera with a metal lens cap and black textured body, displayed against a white background.
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Garry Winogrand
American photographer
Self-portrait by André Kertész
André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
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Ilse Bing
German-born photographer
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans
German photographer
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Lee Friedlander
American photographer
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Ruth Orkin
American photographer and filmmaker
Diane Arbus sits at a table holding a large vintage camera, looking to the side, in a black and white portrait taken in a New York Automat around 1968.
Diane Arbus
American photographer
Promenade des Anglais, 1934
Lisette Model
Austrian photographer