Discover the art of photography in context

• Joseph Rodríguez (1951)

New York City life from a working taxi driver’s perspective, documented through car windows and encounters with passengers.

• Roger Ballen (1950)

Symbolic exploration of psychological dualities, staged within a surreal and confined environment inhabited by humans and birds.

• Grete Stern (1904-1999)

An editorial series of reader-submitted dreams, presented as photomontages.

• Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001)

Dutch teenagers in the 1950s, depicting moments of introspection, uncertainty, and expectation as they navigate the liminal space between childhood and adulthood.

• Emmet Gowin (1941)

The photographer’s wife and her extended family, portrayed through intimate black-and-white portraiture and everyday domestic scenes.

• Brassaï (1899-1984)

Parisian nightlife during the interwar period, capturing the interplay of light and shadow in the city’s streets and social underworld.

• Édouard Boubat (1923-1999)

Boubat's muse and future wife, portrayed in informal black-and-white photographs.

• Bruce Landon Davidson (1933)

A single East Harlem block and its community, photographed through repeated visits, negotiated access, and collaboration with residents.

• Robert Frank (1924-2019)

1950s America’s complexities through a foreigner’s unfiltered lens, documenting tensions between national ideals and everyday realities.

• Josef Sudek (1896-1976)

Panoramic photographs capturing Prague’s architecture and landscapes with a poetic emphasis on light and space.

• Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)

Young divers in midair, photographed from beneath the board as high-contrast black-and-white figures against an empty sky.

• Nicholas Nixon (1947)

A sustained record of four sisters aging together, documented through annual black-and-white portraits made over 48 years.

• Hans Killian (1892-1982)

Close-up portraits of hospitalized patients systematically documenting the visible manifestations of illness, providing a diagnostic reference through facial expressions and physical symptoms.

• Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015)

Daily performative engagement in Paris, where Nakahira photographed, developed, and displayed prints overnight, emphasizing circulation, transience, and the evolving relationship between images and time.

• W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)

The day-and-night work of general practitioner Ernest Guy Ceriani, presented as a black-and-white sequence shaped by actual events.

• Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000)

Residents and streets of Scanno, Abruzzo, rendered in expressive black-and-white through deliberate motion blur and reworked tonal balance.

• Roger Ballen (1950)

Psychologically charged black-and-white images created in a decaying warehouse, where fragmented figures and symbolic clutter blur the line between dream and delirium.

• Sanne Sannes (1937-1967)

Eroticism and human emotion through experimental techniques such as motion blur, high contrast, and grainy textures, emphasizing raw emotional expression and intimacy.