‘Unguarded moments’: a lost archive of street photography – in pictures - The Guardian

Little-known photographer John Baer captured everyday life before putting down his camera in 1954. His son discovered the images decades later after his death, and John Baer: The Extraordinary Ordinary / A Memoir in Photographs, 1945–1954 marks their first public releaseLunch Hour, Bryant Park Photograph: John BaerTue 20 Oct 2026 12.00 BSTLouise Twice, 34th Street, ManhattanJohn Baer received his first camera, a 1938 Model II, from a German soldier. He traveled with it from Manhattan to Brooklyn to Westchester county. Boys with Guns, BarcelonaIn January 1942, when Baer was serving as the managing editor of the campus newspaper at Pennsylvania State University, he was drafted to fight in the second world war. Soldiers on a French Train Years later, in 1945, he took Soldiers on a French train, photographing soldiers during the first stage of their journey home. Couple in Washington Square Park In 1948, Baer and his wife, Louise, moved from Europe to New York City, where they rented a fifth-floor walk-up at 215 Second Avenue in the East Village. Shoeshine man, Third Avenue and 42nd Street, ManhattanBaer often captured scenes of New York City from his fire escape. O!

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