“John Baer grabbed a Leica from a captured German soldier in 1945. Nearly 50 years later, his son found the negatives – which were some of the best postwar street photographs ever.”

“Baer’s collection is a moving portrait of Europe and New York City in the decade after WWII. Now, almost a century on, a debut book demonstrates his gift for catching people in the most unguarded and vulnerable moments of their lives – at work, at rest, at play. John Baer: The Extraordinary Ordinary highlights a world both familiar and forever changed.”