Milt Hinton, Alex Katz, Jerome Liebling, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Edward Steichen, Andy Warhol, Gary Winogrand
People in the City draws from photographs and prints in the permanent collection of Baruch College to look at how artists in the city have represented lovers, passersby, colleagues, and icons. From the construction of the contemporary celebrity image to the anonymous but instantly recognizable figure of the New Yorker, these works have shaped the genre of modern portraiture and help us understand what it meant to be human in the city between 1929-1986. Edward Steichen’s celebrated In the Studio portfolio (1929-1932) is a defining work of modernist photography featuring Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, and Rudolph Valentino.