CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/1/2017

Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967

In a 1967 flier for the now-seminal exhibition New Documents, featuring the work of relatively unknown photographers Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, MoMA curator John Szarkowski wrote, "In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. Their work betrays a sympathy—almost an affection—for the imperfections and the frailties of society. They like the real world, in spite of its terrors, as the source of all wonder and fascination and value, and find it no less precious for being irrational." Featured image, "Los Angeles Dreamin'" (1965) by Lee Friedlander, is reproduced from Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967. Amazingly, this fiftieth-anniversary edition is the first volume ever to catalogue the exhibition.