Milwaukee Art Museum opens Exhibition of 1940s & ’50s’ Street Photography
MILWAUKEE, WI.- A unique and pivotal moment in
American history will be explored in Street Seen: The
Psychological Gesture in American Photography 1940-1959, on view at the
Milwaukee Art Museum January 30 through April 25, 2010. The exhibition,
which showcases urban street photography from the 1940s and ‘50s, provides new
insight into a time when the photographic medium and American society were both
at a cultural crossroads.