Street Life: American Photographs From The 1960s And 70s
date:Thursday, July 24, 2008 time:10:00 AM to 8:00 PM venue:High Museum Of Art address:1280 Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30309 View map posted by:High Museum Of Art
This permanent collection exhibition features photographs by Garry Winogrand, Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas, and Dennis Carlyle Darling made in America in the 1960s and 1970s. Each body of work examines social groups living on the fringes of mainstream culture during the critical decades in American history that witnessed the Women’s Liberation Movement, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and the emergence of the American counterculture.
Exhibition Details
Drawn from the High Museum of Art’s significant permanent collection of post-war photography, Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and 70s presents four photographers’ views of the American cultural landscape during the era that witnessed the counter-cultural movement, the Vietnam War, and the Women’s Liberation Movement. The exhibition features 60 images from noted photo-essays, including Garry Winogrand’s Women are Beautiful, Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders, Dennis Carlyle Darling’s The Motorcycle Gangs of Chicago, and Susan Meiselas’s Carnival Strippers.
Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and 70s showcases the High’s important and rapidly expanding photography collection, which includes the nation’s most comprehensive holding of more than 200 Civil Rights–related photographs.
