Haas was uninterested
in learning photography as a child, though his father—an avid amateur—tried to
share his interest. Upon his father’s death in 1940, however, Haas first
entered the darkroom, learning to print old family negatives. His interest
grew, and he soon began to take his own photographs.
Gary Winnogrand
In the early 1960s
Winogrand photographed on the streets of New York City alongside Joel
Meyerowitz, Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge and Diane Arbus.In 1955 two of
Winogrand's photos appeared in The Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of
Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
Lee FriedLander
Friedlander studied
photography at the Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena,
California. In 1956, he moved to New York City where he photographed jazz
musicians for record covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget,
Robert Frank, and Walker Evans. In 1960, theGuggenheim Memorial Foundation
awarded Friedlander a grant to focus on his art and made subsequent grants in
1962 and 1977. Some of his most famous photographs appeared in the September
1985 Playboy, black and white nude photographs of Madonna from the late 1970s.
A student at the time, she was paid only $25 for her 1979 set. In 2009, one of
the images fetched $37,500 at a Christie's Art House auction.
Diane Arbus
The Arbuses' interests
in photography led them, in 1941, to visit the gallery of Alfred Stieglitz, and
learn about the photographers Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, Paul Strand,
Bill Brandt, and Eugène Atget. In the early 1940s, Diane's father employed them
to take photographs for the department store's advertisements. Allan was a
photographer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War Two.
