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Lunch Time!

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Lunchroom Buddies, New York City, 1931 (printed 1974) (50.1981.k) This glass plate negative was made on Second Avenue in Manhattan. Inscription on negative envelope: ‘LUNCHROOM BUDDIES [underlined] // New York about [crossed out] 1933? // Glass neg. … Continue reading

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Food For Thought

The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival, New York’s oldest and largest continuous food festival, will take place on May 17-18, 2014. Arthur Rothstein, [Peanuts, Washington Street, New York], 1971 (225.1989) Berenice Abbott, Automat, 977 Eighth Avenue, New York, 1936 (675.1984) Anton Bruehl, … Continue reading

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Food, the Kitchen, and the Domestic Environment

Documentary photojournalism flourished in the mid-twentieth century. Its popularity was nourished by the invention of the handheld camera, access to and improvement of photographic resources, and advances in printed media production and civilian travel. Photographers embarked on journeys to explore … Continue reading

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Let’s Eat! A kernel of truth…

Ruzzie Green, [Advertisement: Tippi Hedren]. ca. 1940 Lisette Model, Gallagher’s People, 1945 David “Chim” Seymour, Loyalist pilots from a Republican airbase resting near their Moscas plane, Spain, 1936 Robert Capa, [Women eating and drinking on a stone bench, Lisieux, France], … Continue reading

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