Contact Sheet Print: Wyoming, USA, 1954 Famous Faces

Contact Sheet Print: Wyoming, USA, 1954 Famous FacesHaving dedicated a lifetime to the observation and documentation of the United States, Elliott Erwitts work now stands as a testament to what it means to be a modern American. From grandstanding politicians and celebrity culture, to cinematic vistas, Erwitts vision of the nation manages to be both unique in perspective and universally affecting. Here, he captures the spectacular panoramic landscape of Wyoming through a cars rear window.

personal history

he devoted much of his working life to exploring the order and tranquility found in traditional cultures around the world

Hoepker has captured many aspects of this remarkable period of transition

From the project "ZZYZX"

which came to be known as Give Us the Ballot — an excerpt of which reads: “Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights…Give us the ballot and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law…Give us the ballot and we will fill our legislative halls with men of good will

they confided in her

French photojournalist Jean Gaumy captured the fierce conditions facing the fishermen who worked on open-deck trawlers

A couple of months later I made the journey on road down the delta from the confluence of Ohio and Mississippi rivers outside Cairo (Illinois)

wore coils around their necks from an early age to lengthen them

I was interested in people

with his laconic eye for multiple meaning

It examines his early career exhibiting works at the avant-garde La Pleiade Gallery in Paris