American Scene Photography

Next month, the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale is opening a temporary exhibition which will present the photography collection of Martin Z. Margulies. From the pictures that have surfaced online, this appears to be a stunning sample of 20th America, from the early 30’s to this day, from one coast to another:

Wife of a migratory laborer with three children. Near Childress, Texas. Nettie Featherson, 1938 Photo by Dorothea Lange

New York City, Black American Series, 1962 Photo by Bruce Wilson

Historical American photography is one of my personal favorite and History only gets better when it is told through the stories of common places and people. I keep my fingers crossed that this exhibition ends up traveling to the various places it documents.