Roger Mayne, English, born 1929; Girl Jiving, Southam Street, 1957, printed 1987; gelatin silver print; 13 3/8 x 9 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Helen Kornblum 91:2007; © Roger Mayne, Courtesy Gitterman Gallery

Photography on the Street focuses on the social landscape of the modern city which gained a particular potency in the photographic field in the decades between the 1930s and the 1970s. It is about the people who inhabit and move through urban spaces, sometimes captured clandestinely and sometimes engaging the photographer directly.

Photography on the Street provides examples by the American and European photographers Dorothea Lange, Morris Engel, Weegee (Arthur Felig), Robert Frank, Robert Doisneau, Roger Mayne, Saul Leiter, Duane Michaels and Helen Levitt. These artists capture fleeting and poetic moments within the rush and anonymity of the city, and explore the particular ordering that camera vision can bring to its flux.

Curated by Eric Lutz, assistant curator of prints, drawings and photographs, Photography on the Street, will be on view in Gallery 321 through June 7, 2009.