Afternoon Traffic
1979 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 39.6 × 48.4 cm (15 5/8 × 19 1/16 in.); Paper: 40.5 × 50.4 cm (16 × 19 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Max Yavno
American, 1911
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New Standpoints: Photography, 1940�1955
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879�1967
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Max Yavno was an American photographer whose sharp-focus, geometrically composed street photographs captured the visual texture of postwar urban America. Working primarily in black and white, he developed a distinctive approach to documentary photography that emphasized formal structure and tonal contrast over narrative sentiment. His work remained relatively understudied during his lifetime but has since been recognized for its rigorous formal discipline and prescient attention to vernacular architecture and public space.
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