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Photography Collection at Georgetown University Library

This guide provides an overview of the genres, artists and categories of original fine art photographs in the art collection holdings of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections

Documentary Photography

Image of several young Haitian men waving a flag and tree branches in celebration.John A.S. Brosnan, S.J. (American, 1860 - 1948) Educator; official photographer for the Maryland Province; documented campus buildings. Additional photographs available on Digital Georgetown.

Kristin Capp (American, b. 1964) Images of Brazil published in a 2016 book; interest in formal aspects as well as socio-cultural.

Alexis Carrel (French, 1873 - 1944) Autochrome slides used in teaching. Carrel was a vascular surgeon and winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology. This collection is held in the Manuscripts repository

Keystone View Company (American, active 1892 - 1963) Located in Meadville, PA, publisher of stereographic images of the World War I battlefront.

Danny Lyon (American, born 1942) Documented the Civil Rights Movement, and innovator of New Journalism, in which the photographer is a participant in the documented subject.

Louis Stettner (American,1922 - 2016) Captured the lives of working class people in New York and Paris.

Erika Stone (American, b. 1924) Became a member of the New York Photo League; scenes of daily life in New York, Paris, and the South.

Louis Clyde Stoumen (American, 1917 - 1991) Winner of two Academy Awards for documentary filmmaking in 1957 and 1963.

Photojournalism and Magazine Photography

Muhammad Ali with two women at a night club in black and white.Dmitry Baltermants (Russian, 1912 - 1990) Documented Soviet battles of World War II; much of his work was suppressed by the censors.

Gordon H. Coster (American, 1906-1988) Freelance photographer for major U.S. magazines including Life, Time and Fortune.

Donna Ferrato (American, b. 1949) New York based photographer who documents nightclub life, her Tribeca neighborhood, and the social ills of domestic violence.

Leonard Freed (American, 1929 - 2006) A native of New York who captured everyday scenes around the world.

Ken Heyman (American, 1930 - 2019) Cultural anthropologist who worked with Margaret Meade and published in Life, Look, and Time magazines.

Henry Horenstein (American, b. 1947) Author of several books on photography; documented country music; teaches at RISD.

Alen MacWeeney (Irish, born 1939) Trained as assistant to Richard Avedon; published in numerous magazines; depicts scenes of rural Ireland.

Mark Markov-Grinberg (Russian, 1907 - 2006) One of the most important Soviet photographers of his generation; fought in World War II then served as a war correspondent for the journal Slovo Boitsa.

Bill Owens (American, b. 1938) California-based photographer whose influential book, Suburbia was published in 1973.

George Rodger (British, 1908 - 1995) Images in the Philippines and the Middle East; Rodger is known for his documentary photography of the concentration campus in World War II.

Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915 - 1985) Influential photographer of the Depression era Resettlement and Farm Security Administration projects.

Flip Schulke (American, 1930 - 2008) Images of Georgetown basketball games in the 1960s; Schulke covered the civil rights movement of the 1960s and published in major magazines including Time.

Peter Turnley (American, b. 1955) Award-winning international news and culture photographer featured on over 40 covers of Newsweek.

Volkmar Wentzel (American, 1915 - 1906) National Geographic contributor for 48 years; peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Swaziland depicted in the collection.

Street Photography

Image of a nun in profile in a town square with a statue of a bear behind her.Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908 - 2004) Preeminent French photographer who pioneered the genre of Street Photography.

Leon Levinstein (American, 1910 - 1988) Views of everyday life in New York from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Joel Meyerowitz (American, b. 1938) Early advocate of the use of color in fine art photography; images of buildings, landscape and people.

Garry Winogrand (American, 1928 - 1984) Leading figure in street photography of his generation; documented life in New York.

William Witt (American, 1921 - 2013) Distinctive images of New York and the energy of urban life at mid-century.

Paul J. Woolf (American, 1899 - 1985) Buildings, people and interiors of New York City during the 1930s and 1940s.

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