Fine Print: Sammy Davis Jr. looks out of a Manhattan window. New York City, USA, 1959 Portraiture

Fine Print: Sammy Davis Jr. looks out of a Manhattan window. New York City, USA, 1959 PortraitureBurt Glinn photographed the Beat generation in their natural habitats in New York and San Francisco from 1957 to 1960. His documentation reflects a spontaneity inherent to the Beat philosophy: arms flail, music plays, people talk, eat, dance, paint. They are wrought with emotion and tension, and yet exude a calculated nonchalance. Pictured here is legendary singer and musician, Sammy Davis Jnr, as he looks out of his Manhattan apartment window in 1959.

along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock – the first Americans to join the young photo agency

Bar-Am lived on a kibbutz and began to document kibbutz life with borrowed cameras

but it took a while before it became known as a good picture

Dean was awaiting the release of his first significant film

the project captures the weight of the past

sometimes collaborative work

Towell documented life in Mennonite communities for over 10 years over the course of the 1990s

Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn

Harlem has long been a paradigm of both the suffering and soaring achievements of New York’s underprivileged communities

transforming itself into a modern European state at a remarkable pace

secular mysticism evoking Artaud or Bacon

The story told in A Room of Their Own is intended to share women’s experience of domestic abuse and the process of entering refuge alone