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American photography before WWII

Harold Eugene Edgerton, Milk Drop Coronet, 1957, dye transfer print, 50.5 cm x 40.64 cm (SFMOMA) — A drop of milk landing into a bowl makes an elegant crown shape, thanks to Edgerton’s stroboscope.

Harold Edgerton, Milk-Drop Coronet Splash

by Dr. Kris Belden-Adams

Jacobi seems to have been able to see more facets of Einstein than the editors of Life cared to share with their readership.

Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein

by Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson

Thumbnail Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo California, 1936, printed later, gelatin silver print, 35.24 x 27.78 cm (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, PG.1997.2) — Meet the two women behind this iconic 1936 photograph.

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother

by Eve Schillo, LACMA and Dr. Steven Zucker

Ansel Adams: Visualizing a Photograph — Straight from the horse’s mouth: the process of making a photograph, in the artist’s own words.

Ansel Adams: Visualizing a Photograph

by The J. Paul Getty Museum

Walker Evans, Subway Passengers, New York City — These photographs, taken covertly on the New York City subway, show that seeing is in itself a creative act.

Walker Evans, Subway Passengers, New York City

by The Metropolitan Museum of Art