The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, direction overseen by the author, from the series "Le Théâtre"
1962 · Gelatin silver print
17.2 × 23.9 cm (6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Sabine Weiss
1924
PhotographyPhotography
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14
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18
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The Photo Essay
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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The Family of Man
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Postwar European Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Sabine Weiss was a Swiss photographer known for humanistic black-and-white imagery that documented postwar European daily life with particular attention to children, urban streets, and intimate domestic moments. Working primarily in 35mm film from the 1940s onward, her practice combined the formal clarity of modernist photography with an empathetic eye for the overlooked gestures and expressions of ordinary people. Her work appeared in major European and American publications throughout the mid-twentieth century.
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