The Silence of Don Donaghy
This photographer I came across in my searches is relatively unknown, however, he is included in Jane Livingstons book The New York School: Photographs 1936-1963. In the book, Livingston regards Donaghy's photographs as "among the most beautiful in the history of American photography." Others such as Mark Power would call his photographs some of the most compelling ever recorded, that Donaghy's spiritual brothers were "obviously" Atget, and Cartier-Bresson. And yet, Donaghy was famously silent, undoubtedly because he only spent one decade being productive in the genre of street photography. The rest of his days were spent in Boulder, Colorado, actually, experimenting in film and s...Read more