Approaches to DocumentaryWith Jordan Putt, Curatorial Assistant

Begins at Noon CST

“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing

something. You are not here long.”

- Walker Evans

Eugene Atget, (Unknown Title), n.d.

André Kertész, “20th St. West (chimneys, laundry line)”, 1943

André Kertész, “Greenwich Village, New York (woman on rooftop reading)” 1962

Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Alicante, Spain,” 1933, printed 2007

Berenice Abbott, “Barclay Street Station, New York” 1930

Berenice Abbott, “El Station, Interior, Sixth and Ninth Avenue” 1936

Berenice Abbott, “Yuban Warehouse, New York” 1936

Walker Evans, “[Brooklyn Bridge]” 1929

Hart Crane, The Bridge, First Edition published 1930

Hart Crane, The Bridge, published 2011Walker Evans, “[Brooklyn Bridge]” 1929

Walker Evans, “Victorian house. Easton, Pennsylvania” 1935

Walker Evans, “Share Cropper's Grave, Hale County, Alabama” 1936

Walker Evans, “Miners' Shack, Scott's Run Near Morgantown, West Virginia” 1935

Walker Evans, “Miners' Shack, Scott's Run Near Morgantown, West Virginia” 1935 Alec Soth, “Immaculate Conception Church, Kaskaskia, Illinois” 2002

Gordon Parks, “Washington, D.C. Young boy standing in the doorway of his home on Seaton Road in the northwest section. His leg was cut off by a streetcar while he was playing in the street,” 1942

Gordon Parks, “Willie Causey and Family, Shady Grove, Alabama,” 1956

Gordon Parks, from “The Restraints: Open and Hidden” Life , 1956

Gordon Parks, “Emerging Man, Harlem, New York,” 1952

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, “Parabola Optica” 1931

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, “El ensueño” 1931

Graciela Iturbide, “Fallen From the Sky, Chalma, Mexico” 1990

Graciela Iturbide, “Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Oaxaca,” 1979

Monumento a la mujer Juchiteca, Juchitán Oaxaca. (Image from Juchitan Oaxaca Facebook Page)

Graciela Iturbide, (Unknown Title), n.d.

Danny Lyon, “The University of Mississippi campus where James Meredith tried to register as the first black student there.” 1962

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Poster, 1963 (Not part of the MoCP collection)

Dany Lyons, “Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard”, 1964

Hank Willis Thomas, “Looking for America” 2018 from the Portland Art Museum

Diana Matar, Evidence II and Evidence II Text Piece, 2012

Diana Matar, Evidence IV and Evidence IV Text Piece, 2012

Nan Goldin, James King Backstage at the Karl Lagerfeld Show, Paris, 1995

Zora Murff, “Memphis at 16”, Unknown Date, From Midwest Photographers Project

Zora Murff, “Youthful Offender 9660,” 2013, From Midwest Photographers Project

Carlos Javier Ortiz, “Girls Dancing, Englewod, Chicago,” 2008

Friday, June 19 at Noon CST

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