Magnum Poster: Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002 Framing:Unframed

Magnum Poster: Fountain City, Wisconsin, 2002 Framing:UnframedAlec Soths work is rooted in the American photographic tradition that Walker Evans famously termed documentary style. Concerned with the mythologies and oddities that proliferate Americas disconnected communities, Soth has an instinct for the relationship between narrative and metaphor. His clarity of voice has drawn many comparisons to literature, but he believes photography to be more fragmented; Its more like poetry than writing a novel.

his images of the town are intertwined with excerpts and facsimiles from a 1919 archaeological discovery also called ‘the Book of Veles’ — a cryptic collection of 40 wooden boards discovered in Russia by an army officer

His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath

Bruce Davidson went to East 100th Street in Harlem

a middle class narrative I knew so well

hardy gamekeepers

Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Montgomery

he succeeds in capturing the true spirit of France

While he made his name photographing some of the most famous personalities of the 20th century

The Beatles filmed A Hard Day’s Night over seven weeks in 1964

“I arrived with the US reporter Laura Berquist from Look magazine

The streets become empty

000-mile journey