Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959
This exhibition catalogue takes an in-depth look at six photographers prominent during and immediately following World War II. These creative photographers broke the rules of conventional photographic technique to evoke personal experience in an increasingly anonymous world. In embracing photography as an "act of living"—an exploration of identity rather than a tool for telling a story—they create imagery with a perceivable link between form and feeling, manifesting what is termed the "psychological gesture" of mid-century American life.
