After returning from his studies with Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, Homer Page was encouraged by his friend and mentor, Dorothea Lange, to pursue photography full time. Beginning in 1943, his distinctive style of street photography in Oakland and San Francisco quickly drew the attention of Nancy Newhall and later Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where his work was frequently exhibited from 1945 through the mid-1950s. In 1949, Page received a Guggenheim Fellowship, spending a year photographing life on the streets of New York.

We are pleased to present a broad selection from an archive of his work made in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1944 and 1948, along with a few prints from New York in 1949. Most of these vintage prints are unique, offering a rare glimpse into the stylized yet penetrating vision of this remarkable documentary artist of the urban landscape.

A wider selection of available prints by can be seen upon request.

Homer Page

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