{"id":375583,"date":"2010-03-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/419881795"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:00:00","slug":"slide-show-new-york-moody-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375583","title":{"rendered":"Slide Show: New York, Moody City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"510\" height=\"425\" id=\"soundslider\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/streetseen\/soundslider.swf?size=2&#038;format=xml&#038;embed_width=510&#038;embed_height=390&#038;autoload=true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/streetseen\/soundslider.swf?size=2&#038;format=xml&#038;embed_width=510&#038;embed_height=390&#038;autoload=true\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" width=\"510\" height=\"425\" menu=\"false\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>A new exhibition of street photography, \u201cStreet Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940\u20131959,\u201d at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/streetseen\/\">Milwaukee Art Museum<\/a>, brings together work by photographers ranging from Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans to Helen Levitt, W. Eugene Smith, and Weegee; it also includes paintings by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart\u2014all of whom were making images during and immediately after World War II. \u201cAbstract Expressionism, film noir, Beat poetry, and the New Journalism are all widely recognized aftershocks of World War II,\u201d writes Lisa Hostetler in the catalog of the exhibition. \u201cIt is time to add the \u2018psychological gesture in photography\u2019 to the list.\u201d <!-- more -->These photographs, with their emphasis on mood and atmosphere, and their exploration of blurred motion, shadows, and solitary figures, are very different from images made before the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On view through April 25, \u201cStreet Seen\u201d focuses on six photographers in particular: Lisette Model, Louis Faurer, Ted Croner, Saul Leiter, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/298876613\/slide-show-dominique-nabokov-on-robert-frank\">Robert Frank<\/a>, and William Klein\u2014whose<\/em> Man under El, New York, <em>from 1955, appears in the March 25 issue of<\/em> The New York Review. <em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/streetseen\/catalogue.php\">catalog<\/a> has just been published by the Milwaukee Art Museum with DelMonico Books and Prestel.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><i>\u2014Eve Bowen<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=RQ9j7CAotks:dd7hwTVQzNo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nyrblog\/~4\/RQ9j7CAotks\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibition of street photography, \u201cStreet Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940\u20131959,\u201d at the Milwaukee Art Museum, brings together work by photographers ranging from Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans to Helen Levitt, W. 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