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Nova Scotia
1959 · Gelatin silver print
10 7/16 × 13 3/8" (26.5 × 34 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Dan Weiner
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Institutional Exhibitions
59
Works in Collection
117
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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America Worked: The 1950s Photographs of Dan Weiner
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
About
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Dan Weiner was an American photographer whose work documented labor, social conditions, and American life in the postwar era. Operating primarily in black and white, he produced penetrating documentary photographs for magazines including Collier's and Fortune, capturing both industrial landscapes and intimate human moments. His practice embodied the investigative photojournalism that defined mid-twentieth-century American visual culture.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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