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One of Leighton's street photographs was selected by [[Edward Steichen]] for [[The Museum of Modern Art]] 1955 world-touring exhibition [[The Family of Man]] seen by 9 million visitors.<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Steichen, Edward | author2=Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.) | author3=Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.) | author4=Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.) | author5=Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.) | author6=Mason, Jerry, (editor.) | author7=Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.) | author8=Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) | title=The family of man : the photographic exhibition | publication-date=1955 | publisher=Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10809600 |
One of Leighton's street photographs was selected by [[Edward Steichen]] for [[The Museum of Modern Art]] 1955 world-touring exhibition [[The Family of Man]] seen by 9 million visitors.<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Steichen, Edward | author2=Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.) | author3=Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.) | author4=Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.) | author5=Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.) | author6=Mason, Jerry, (editor.) | author7=Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.) | author8=Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) | title=The family of man : the photographic exhibition | publication-date=1955 | publisher=Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10809600 }}</ref> The picture was made at in the year of the Supreme Court’s (May 17, 1954) decision in Brown vs. Board of Education that abolished segregation in American schools and shows two boys, one who is black with his arm over the shoulders of his companion who is white, walking in step past run-down shops. The taller boy delicately clasps a baseball card in his left hand, as if having just shown it to his friend. They are observed by an old white man sitting idly on a shop step clasping his walking-stick while another has his back turned to look at a cafe menu. The image is among a number of non-stereotypical images of black Americans at work and play in ''The Family of Man which challenge and subvert racial stereotypes and demystify mainstream discourses on social and ethnic relations.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.) | author2=Reitz, Anke, (editor.) | author3=Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) | title=The family of man revisited : photography in a global age | publication-date=2018 | publisher=London I.B.Tauris | isbn=978-1-78672-297-3 }}</ref> |
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Several such Leighton photographs of black Americans were represented in a [[Middlebury College|Middlebury College Museum of Art]] exhibition ''Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience'' May 22–August 9, 2015, co-curated by Middlebury Associate Professor of History William Hart and the students in his Spring 2015 African-American History course.<ref>[http://museum.middlebury.edu/news/images/Many_Thousand_Gone_PR_images Press release for Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition ''Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience'' May 22–August 9, 2015]</ref> |
Several such Leighton photographs of black Americans were represented in a [[Middlebury College|Middlebury College Museum of Art]] exhibition ''Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience'' May 22–August 9, 2015, co-curated by Middlebury Associate Professor of History William Hart and the students in his Spring 2015 African-American History course.<ref>[http://museum.middlebury.edu/news/images/Many_Thousand_Gone_PR_images Press release for Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition ''Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience'' May 22–August 9, 2015]</ref> |
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Henri Leighton (b.1917) was an American photographer and technical writer on photography, noted for his mid-century pictures of African-American children playing in city streets.
Photographer
Images by Leighton show a consistent interest in childhood and closeness, and in the street photography genre in which he practiced he also shot night scenes and radically motion-blurred images of the hectic Times Square precinct. He used a 35mm format Exakta; an early example of single-lens reflex camera.[1]
Recognition
One of Leighton's street photographs was selected by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art 1955 world-touring exhibition The Family of Man seen by 9 million visitors.[2] The picture was made at in the year of the Supreme Court’s (May 17, 1954) decision in Brown vs. Board of Education that abolished segregation in American schools and shows two boys, one who is black with his arm over the shoulders of his companion who is white, walking in step past run-down shops. The taller boy delicately clasps a baseball card in his left hand, as if having just shown it to his friend. They are observed by an old white man sitting idly on a shop step clasping his walking-stick while another has his back turned to look at a cafe menu. The image is among a number of non-stereotypical images of black Americans at work and play in The Family of Man which challenge and subvert racial stereotypes and demystify mainstream discourses on social and ethnic relations.[3]
Several such Leighton photographs of black Americans were represented in a Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience May 22–August 9, 2015, co-curated by Middlebury Associate Professor of History William Hart and the students in his Spring 2015 African-American History course.[4]
Collections
- Henri Leighton's works in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Henri Leighton on the MoMA website
- Henri Leighton photographs at Middlebury College Museum of Art
References
- ^ Henri Leighton, 'Motion'. In Exakta: The Magazine for Exakta Photographers, Volume 1, Number 2, 1950, Exakta Camera Company and Wolf Wirgin
- ^ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
{{cite book}}:|author6=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3
{{citation}}:|author1=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Press release for Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience May 22–August 9, 2015