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Some photographers build a career step by step. Others disappear almost completely from view, until their work resurfaces years later. John Baer (1920–1994) belongs to the latter category. His name may not immediately ring a bell with many photography enthusiasts, but John Baer: The Extraordinary Ordinary: A Memoir in Photographs, 1945–1954 shows that the work of a remarkable photographer has been rediscovered here.

… this book is more than a collection of forgotten photographs. The approximately 250 images together form a vivid portrait of Europe and New York in the years immediately following the war… What stands out most is how precise his images are. The compositions rarely feel accidental. A pedestrian swallowed by his own long shadow, a figure with an umbrella reflected in a wet street, a double exposure in which his wife Louise moves through New York almost like an apparition: these are photographs by someone who intuitively understood what the medium could do.

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