Italy, 1944. Grieving Mothers of Naples. "The narrow street leading to my hotel was blocked by a queue of silent people in front of a schoolhouse. Inside were twenty primitive coffins…
New York City, 1948. Police, May Day Parade. Dan Weiner was interested in people wherever they were. He particularly loved the people of New York where he lived and was born.
New York City, 1950. Child at Window. Dan Weiner belonged to the 1950 decade of American journalistic photographers. He was part journalist, part documentarian, part psychologist.
Art historian Bernard Berenson at the Borghese Gallery in Rome, 1955.
This picture of a displaced child from the Sudetenland was made by Chim in Austria in 1948 while he was photographing the plight of the children of post-war Europe for UNESCO.
In Harlem, words take on new dimensions. For example, relief means relief lines, relief checks, families on relief. Or, it can mean simply relief from the heat. Heat can mean the police are putting.
South Carolina, 1966. "Only the windows and the door frames had been painted sky blue, to keep the bad spirits away. Blue is the color of heaven, and no bad spirits may enter Heaven"
Sinai, 1967. In June, Freed went to Israel to cover the Six Day War's aftermath in Jerusalem and in Israel. This photograph was taken in July of that year.