Traffic Whirl
1950 · Gelatin silver print
Image/paper/mount: 21 × 19.8 cm (8 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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C. Cameron Macauley
American, 1923–2007
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C. Cameron Macauley was an American photographer whose career encompassed still photography, ethnographic filmmaking, and the study of historic visual media across seven decades. His prize-winning photographs and ethnographic films established him as both a practitioner and historian of the photographic image. Macauley's work combined documentary rigor with an archival sensibility, positioning him equally as artist and scholar of visual culture.
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