I came across Arnold Newman's work in an usual way... I was working at a big photography studios in London and the Creatives working upstairs decided that the communal toilet would be the place to store their tomes of photography books and magazines while building work was carried out to their offices.
Two Men on Front Porch, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1941
Boy with Dog, Arden, Delaware, 1947
Both these images are photographs taken from a book found in the toilet... as I couldn't find better reproductions online. They're so atmospheric, capturing the emotion of the men and boy. I love the porches - the chair and geraniums, climbing ivy and wooden shutters... And naturally, the clothes. Both photographs are part of Newman's early work, before he got famous and took some of the portraits that are now very well known.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1968
Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France, 1954
