Fine Print: Manhattan, métro, 1996 Paper size:16 x 22.4 in (40 x 57 cm)

Fine Print: Manhattan, métro, 1996 Paper size:16 x 22.4 in (40 x 57 cm)Harry Gruyaert is known for his extraordinary photographic work with color. Born in Antwerp in 1941, he originally dreamed of becoming a film director. In the late 1970s, Pop art and a trip to Morocco inspired him to become one of the first photographers in Europe to devote his work entirely to color photography. Gruyaerts cinematographic background instilled in him an aesthetic conception of photography. Rather than telling stories or documenting the

She was also appointed to the advisory committee of the National Museum of Photography

he teases out the meanings held within inanimate objects and how they reveal their owner’s personality

these archival family images trace moments of travel

from 1996 to 1999

as seen by Steele-Perkins

in its raw state

luminous web of motion and reflection

surrounded by sparse brush and cacti under a pale sky

“In Our Time” captures the past fifty years of the world in over three hundred memorable photographs

"Contemplating Burma: photographs by Hiroji Kubota" (in English and Japanese)

and darker qualities that inhabit the city — not the picture-postcard views that the rest of the world sees

many of which have never before been published