Fine Print: Children dancing, Orinda, California, 1956 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)

Fine Print: Children dancing, Orinda, California, 1956 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)The 1950s marked a moment of transition within Wayne Miller's own work. Following the birth of his first child, the photographer began to turn his lens inwards and dedicated himself to photographing his own family. "It was as though I had never been a child," he explained. Wayne Miller regarded childhood as a period of continual discovery and excitement and endeavoured to capture this by documenting the everyday lives of his four children.

Against this backdrop

Smith described this image: “A striking picture which is about the best I have made since the year’s beginning

it was very exciting

young men in the area race each other across a distance of 30km

Wayne Miller regarded childhood as a period of continual discovery and excitement and endeavoured to capture this by documenting the everyday lives of his four children

Since this posed a technical problem

Susie Parr

nowhere is the pursuit of pleasure more nakedly apparent than on the beach

Freed traveled to New York

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Elliott Erwitt was one of the first wave of American’s to join Magnum Photos

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