Discover the art of photography in context

• Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Candid black-and-white images of New York subway passengers from 1938 to 1941, depicting unposed moments of solitude and anonymity.

• Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011)

Women in Kyjov, seen through blurred, uneven exposures produced with improvised cameras and extended by pencil additions and handmade mounts.

• Joan Colom (1921-2017)

Candid documentation of Barcelona’s marginalized sex workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, presented through high-contrast black-and-white photography with distinctive grain.

• Erich Salomon (1886-1944)

Unposed moments of political and social elites captured during informal settings, revealing the human dimension of authority figures.