Amateur Photographer

Boys with guns, Barcelona

John Baer The Extraordinary Ordinary … brings a long-lost archive of a uniquely talented American photographer, John Baer, under the spotlight. His legacy of nearly 4,000 negatives, silver gelatin prints, and contact sheets documenting post-war Europe and New York was discovered after his death in 1994 and remained unseen until now. Stepping up as a new contemporary to Vivian Meier and Garry Winogrand, Baer’s photographs depict a hopeful world rebuilding and readjusting to a new order following one of the deadliest wars in human history, bringing a fresh perspective and serving as a reminder that human resilience and our innate strength to overcome adversity persist.

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