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With his "Public Relations" project, Winogrand is considered to be among the first to show that the event was of secondary importance to the photograph of the event. "Public Relations" is considered to be at the cusp of postmodernism; with the project he fulfilled the ...

The New Documents exhibition established the three artists as important voices. As curator John Szarkowski noted, they, “redirected the technique and aesthetic of documentary photography to more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life but to know it.”

When the Brooklyn Bridge opened, Pulitzer challenged the one-penny pedestrian toll in his paper with a four-column woodcut of the bridge on the front page of the World, and declared: “Let the Bridge Be Free / A Penny Is a Workman’s Lunch.”

Discover how Winogrand's early career led him to become an epic storyteller in pictures who harnessed the serendipity of the streets to capture the American 1960s-70s.

Joseph Pulitzer fought for readership with his nemesis, William Randolph Hearst, in the mid-1890s. Both crossed the line into “yellow journalism” during the Spanish-American War.

January 14, 1928 Garry Winogrand is born in the Bronx, New York, to immigrants Abe and Bertha Winogrand, from Budapest and Warsaw respectively. ca. 1933 Winogrand is stricken with polio and confined to bed for several months. 1946 - 1947 Winogrand joins the U.S. Air ...

Discover the life and work of Garry Winogrand, the epic storyteller in pictures who harnessed the serendipity of the streets to capture the American 1960s-70s. His “snapshot aesthetic” is now the universal language of contemporary image making.

Discover the man behind the prizes. A journalist who became a media mogul with an outspoken, cantankerous editorial voice and best-selling newspapers, Joseph Pulitzer championed what he regarded as the sacred role of the free press in a democracy.

Directed by four-time Emmy Award-winner Jim Brown (American Masters — The Highwaymen: Friends Til The End, American Masters – Pete Seeger: The Power of Song), the documentary premieres nationwide Friday, March 1 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) in honor of Women’s History ...

By Cindy Y. Rodriguez n honor of Women’s History Month, we interviewed pioneering singer-songwriter, actress and activist Holly Near and asked about the music that resonated most with her throughout her life and career. The result: a powerful, curated playlist (below) by the feminist folk ...