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Midcentury Photography & Modern Self-Portraiture Take Center Stage At Two New Exhibits At The Met

14 photos

Walker Evans, "Corner of State and Randolph Streets, Chicago: (1946)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990/ © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Helen Levitt, "New York" (ca. 1939)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2020

U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps, "Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific" (July 25, 1946)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2004

Mario De Biasi, "Train Station, Bologna" (1952)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Archivio Mario De Biasi, 2018/© Archivio Mario De Biasi

Ernest Cole, "Riders on a Moving Train near Johannesburg, South Africa" (1962–66)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Funds from various donors, 2019/© Ernest Cole Family Trust

Don McCullin, "My First Day in Vietnam, Mekong Delta, Vietnam" (1964)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society, Jennifer and Philip Maritz, Jade Lau, Stephanie and Robert Olmsted, and The Tianaderrah Foundation Gifts, 2019 /© Don McCullin

Aaron Rose, "Untitled," from the series "Gem Spa" (1968–69)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2018/ © Aaron Rose

Cindy Sherman, "Untitled #87" (1981)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. Bequest, 1995/ © Cindy Sherman

Ellen Carey, "Untitled" (1987)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sherman and Jacqueline Lowy Foundation, 1991/© Ellen Carey

Justine Cooper, "Trap - self portrait" (1998)

Mike Kelley, "Ahh...Youth!" (1991)

Tom Friedman, "Untitled" (1998)

Nikki S. Lee, "The Ohio Project (8)" (1999)

Qualeasha Wood, "The [Black] Madonna/Whore Complex" (2021)