Meet Vivian Cherry: One of the First Female Street Photographers

Harlem, 1940s

In the 1940s, as the Second World War raged through Europe, a bustling New York found itself the cultural capital of the world. This was the decade that birthed the Beat Generation and Abstract Expressionism, and championed a radical realism in photography. “The older photographers working at this time wanted to make pictures that looked like paintings but reality was coming up, and that was really great,” explains photographer Vivian Cherry, who came of age in this exciting…

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Meet Vivian Cherry: One of the First Female Street Photographers
By Daisy Woodward

May 10, 2018 at 09:52AM
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