The New Yorker - Photo Booth

Wagner knows the special alchemy that can happen when you point a camera at a Black person on the street.

Avedon was the first—and for a long time the only—staff photographer at The New Yorker, but he began his career at Harper’s Bazaar, transforming the fashion photograph in issue after sensational issue.

Cyrus began consistently documenting New York City in the nineties. His images of Harlem—its streets, its jazz clubs, its dark, soulful nights—evoke the place like nothing else.

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.