HIGH MUSEUM PRESENTS PHOTO ESSAYS FROM THE 1960S, 70S TO AUG. 10

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ATLANTA, GA. — Drawn from the High Museum of Art’s significant permanent collection of post-war photography, “Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and 70s” presents four photographers’ views of the American cultural landscape during the era that witnessed the countercultural movement, the Vietnam War and the Women’s Liberation Movement.

On view through August 10, the exhibition features 60 images from noted photo-essays, including Garry Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful,” Danny Lyon’s “The Bikeriders,” Dennis Carlyle Darling’s “The Motorcycle Gangs of Chicago” and Susan Meiselas’s “Carnival Strippers.”

“Street Life” is organized by Beth Hancock, curatorial assistant of photography at the High Museum of Art.

Garry Winogrand began photographing women on the street in 1960, a subject that became a mainstay in his work for the rest of his life.

While studying at the University of Chicago in 1965, photographer Danny Lyon became a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Riding a Triumph motorcycle and armed with his cameras, he joined the bikers on the road, creating a photo-documentary of their lifestyle over a four-year period.

As a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, Dennis Carlyle Darling found artistic inspiration in the margins of Chicago society. He stated, “Chicago seemed to be all underbelly and most of it surprisingly accessible.”

In the early 1970s, Mesielas took her Leica camera on the road to document the lives of women who danced in a traveling roadside carnival. “Carnival Strippers,” published in 1976, captures the dichotomous nature of its female subjects, who appear both powerful and vulnerable — glorified and exploited — during a time when women were fighting for political and social equality.

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