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The Power of a Picture
An Introduction to Photographic
Communication Through the Still
Image
August Sander, Young Farmers, 1914.
The Power of a Picture
Paul Strand, Young Boy, Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951
Gordon Parks, Ella Watson, American
Gothic, 1942
Robert Frank, Beaufort, SC (from The Americans), 1955
Richard Renaldi, left Jeromy and Matthew, Columbus, OH 2011 & right
Ekeabong and Andrew, Venice, CA 2013 (from Touching Strangers)
Helen Levitt, New York City (Phone
Booth), 1980
Elliot Erwitt, New York City, 2000.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare
Saint-Lazare, 1932.
Eugene Richards, Grandmother, Brooklyn, 1993.
Garry Winogrand, New York World’s Fair, 1964
Alex Webb, Children Playing in a Playground, Havana, 2000
Lee Friedlander, 1983
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #07,
1978
William Eggleston, Untitled (Los
Alamos portfolio), 1965–74
Edward Weston, Pepper No. 30, 1930
Walker Evans, Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta, 1936
Stephen Shore, Trail’s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August, 10 (from
Uncommon Places), 1973
Mitch Epstein, Dad’s Briefcase, 2000
Alec Soth, Gus’s Pawn Shop (from Niagara), 2005
Joel Sternfeld, Central Park, North of the Obelisk, Behind the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (from On This Site: Landscape In
Memoriam), May 1993
Todd Hido, #10276 (from Excerpts from Silver Meadows), 2013
Lewis Balt, The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, 1974
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Harry E. Colliery Coal Breaker, Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, USA, 1974

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