For four years in the 1960s, Danny Lyon was a member of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. He emerged with one of the defining photo-essays of the 1960s, which seared motorcycle counterculture into the American psyche, and helped inspire the film Easy Rider.
© Photograph by Danny Lyon
     
   

 
Documenting the early days of the Black Panther Party and this significant movement in Bay Area history; these photographs reflects a desire to capture in images a closer understanding of the Black Panthers and their organization.
© Photograph by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones
     

 
Following the publication of his book "Son of Bitch," he became famous as a maker of funny pictures where dogs play the starring role, In his vast range of sentiment, and in his easygoing but precise mastery of the abstract elements of composition, Elliott Erwitt is an acute observer of the canine world.
     
   


 
Joseph Szabo has been photographing his teen-age students for the past twenty-five years, and has perfectly captured the ambivalence of that time of life. As a high school teacher of photography, he takes seriously their pretentions, passions, and confusions, and he knows intimately how students put on, act up, behave, and misbehave.
© Photograph by Joseph Szabo
     

 


Fashion, boxing, and controversial political photographs round out this career retrospective which is centered on an in-depth selection from the influential Social Graces photo-essay.


© Photograph by Larry Fink

     
American Beat: Words and Photographs by Allen Ginsberg

 
Four decades of intimacy and outrage as seen through the lens of this pathbreaking poet.



© Photograph by Allen Ginnsburg
     

 
The first comprehensive survey, from the 1950s to the 1980s, of this visionary photographer.


© Photograph by Ken Heyman
     
Sign of the Times: an Art Kane Retrospective


 


The first career retrospective of the late, great magazine photographer, whose inventive music portraits memorialized two generations of jazz and rock icons, and whose controversial fashion work blurred the borders between fashion, film noir, and erotica.

     

 

Bill Owens' slyly subversive photo-essay on tract-home culture and the American Dream was an instant classic when it was first published in 1972, and has never looked fresher nor more relevant than it does today.