7 Documentarians is drawn from the permanentcollection of the David Winton Bell Gallery and includes both worksseminal to the history of documentary photography and lesser-knownseries by renowned American photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans,Garry Winogrand, Larry Clark, Danny Lyon, Jim Dow, and Jay Wolke.Subjects range from New York City and the rural south in the 1930s; tolife in Texas prisons, days on the streets of New York, and the drugculture in the 1960s; to the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago and baseballstadiums in the U.S. and Canada in the 1980s. The exhibition does notattempt to provide a comprehensive history of twentieth-centurydocumentary photography, rather it illuminates important social andtechnical changes that have affected the genre throughout the century.

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Walker Evans, Untitled, from Many are Called (Subway Series), late 1930s