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Seven Portraits
1976 · Seven gelatin silver prints, printed 1976
case 15 3/4 × 12 1/16 × 1 3/8" (40 × 30.6 × 3.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Joseph Breitenbach
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11
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22
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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The Family of Man
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Then and Now
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
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Christmas Photographs
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951–1952
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Abstraction in Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Joseph Breitenbach was an American photographer who balanced formal compositional control with psychological immediacy in black and white documentary and portrait work. Operating across architectural studies, cultural documentation, and intimate portraiture, he developed a distinctly directorial approach that shaped mid-twentieth-century photographic practice. His work ranged from commissioned architectural studies to candid psychological portraiture, establishing a visual language that moved between objective documentation and subjective interpretation.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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