Escalon Hotel before demolishment, San Joaquin Valley, California
1968 · Gelatin silver print
8 1/4 × 11 3/4" (20.9 × 29.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Chauncey Hare
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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Photographs by Chauncey Hare
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Photography: New Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
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Chauncey Hare was an American photographer whose black-and-white documentary work addressed labor, community, and everyday life in postwar America with unflinching directness. His images engage social and political themes through a formal restraint that privileges observation over editorializing. Working across several decades, Hare developed a practice rooted in the American documentary tradition while maintaining a distinctive attentiveness to the texture of ordinary experience.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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